The Radnor Township Board of Commissioners held a regular meeting on Monday, June 15, 2026, beginning at 6:30 PM at the Radnorshire Room. The meeting included the recognition of a longtime volunteer, public comments, a major caucus on a mixed-use development, introduction of several ordinances, and approval of multiple resolutions and consent agenda items.
This Monday, June 15th, 2026 at 645 p.m. Will you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance? Thank you. Before we get started, I'd like to give notice of an executive sessions held on June 8th last Monday and also just prior to this meeting to discuss legal and real estate matters. Okay, we're going to start off with the recognition of Bob Mickliss for his contributions of the seal of Radner Township stained glass project. So this is uh for Bob Nicholas. I I met Bob 35 years ago before I had kids, and I started teaching or coaching, they needed coaches for Radner Little League on the bigger fields. And I think it was the time Bob was actually coaching his own kids at the time. Since then he was coaching other kids, his brothers' kids, busy coaching. He was also organizing all of Radner Little League, Radner Basketball schedules, soccer schedules. He was involved in everything. If somebody wanted a youth sport, you would talk to him. If you want to flag football, you would talk to him, he would tell you what what you had to do. And he was a great uh mentor. Thank you, Tammy. Thank you, uh, and good evening, everybody. Um, for one of the days of the year where I actually am losing my voice, it's the day I have to recognize Bob Nicholas, and I feel so bad about that. Um Bob and I had the opportunity to work together for my entire career here in Radner Township, which is now going on 27 years, amazingly. So I wanted to have Bob come up, because I do want to read something to him, although I might not get all the way through it, and I may have to have Bakir, our program supervisor, jump in and help me. So I really apologize for my voice. It was great this morning when we met with staff for some reason I lost my voice today. Um so I don't normally sound this good or sound this bad. I usually sound a lot better with a lot of better uh inflections, but I do have something that I want to say about Bob. Um so if you guys will all bear with me because as you can see by everybody that's here in the room tonight, um, especially those that are standing along the back, they are here to celebrate Bob because that's how meaningful he is to our community. So tonight we gather not only to unveil a remarkable artistic contribution to the Radner Township Municipal Building, but also to honor an extraordinary resident of 43 years, Bob Nicholas, whose dedication, creativity, and service have enriched our community for more than four decades. His beautiful stained glass rendering, which we're gonna look at here shortly on the screens, of the Radner Township seal will now be permanently displayed in our buildings, glass enclosed East Entrance Festibule is far more than a work of art. It's a reflection of Bob himself, crafted with care and dedicated to the community that he loves. It serves as a lasting symbol of Radner Town Township's history, its values, and its identity, while standing as a testament to the spirit of the time and the service that Bob has embodied embodied throughout his life, especially here in Radner. Bob's over four decades of service embody the very essence of parks and recreation, enriching community life through sports, scouting, outdoor stewardship, and the preservation and enhancement of parks, trails, and open spaces. Essentially, Bob's done the work of an employee in Parks and Recreation after all these years of what he has done. And through his dedication, he's created opportunities for residents of all ages to play, learn, explore, connect, and thrive, helping to strengthen the quality of life and the sense of community that make Radner Township such a special place. Bob has impacted and will impact the lives of generations for Radner residents for years to come. The allotted time here tonight doesn't allow us to really fully capture all that he has done. And whatever you think you know that Bob has done, he has done a whole lot more, I can assure you. So at the heart of our youth sports programming, he's helped to create opportunities for our community's youth to learn teamwork, sponsorship, teamwork, sportsmanship, leadership, and confidence. He's the founding and managing director of Radner Youth Basketball, which started in 1990. He's had 40 years of coaching and managing, not only within Radner Youth Basketball, but Radner Soccer Club and Radner Wayne Little League, including both baseball and softball. He was the past president and current board member of Radner Wayne Little League since 1988. And he has 35 years of managing the sports registration databases and the online scheduling, which I can assure you has been coming with a lot of a lot of webs and flows over the years with different systems and different technology and how it's evolved. With his leadership of Radner Scouts, he's guided young people through experiences that shaped character, responsibility, and service to others. Yes, that's a picture of Commissioner Riley up there. Thank you to Gary Rathsmill for sending that to me. So he served as the vice president of Radner 280 Friends of Radner 284, maintaining and managing the historic 1882 Radner Schoolhouse and the surrounding open space for scouts. And that stained glass that's up there in the right hand corner is another one of his artistic contributions over at the 1882 Scout House, which is absolutely beautiful. He was assistant scout master for Radner Troop 284 since 1994, assistant scout master for Troop Committee member and Eagle Scout Advisor. He's guided dozens of projects that have happened all across the park system here in Radner. And he's also been a Scout Merit Badge counselor in camping, canoeing, hiking, and backpacking. As an advocate of trails, parks, and recreation and open space, he's worked tiress tirelessly to enhance the quality of life residents throughout Radner Township enjoy. He was instrumental in the planting planning and the building and the maintenance of the township's most cherished hiking trails in Skoncalo Park, along with his son Andy Mikolas, and including the construction of the original Skunkala Bridge, which there's a picture of it up there, which had actually been destroyed by a fire, and then it was replaced. But I know that was a project that you really felt proud of over the years, and it made a big difference in the trail system in Skunkalo.