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The Radnor Township Board of Commissioners met on Monday, September 28, 2026, at 6:30 PM in the Radnorshire Room. The meeting began with the Pledge of Allegiance and notice of an executive session on legal and real estate matters. Presentations were given on the Willows Park Preserve bi-annual update and the Creutzberg Center architectural cost proposal. The board approved consent agenda items, adopted a new Stormwater Authority ordinance, introduced a handicapped parking zone, discussed and tabled a major EMS equipment purchase, awarded a temporary bridge contract, and approved roof replacement change orders. A discussion on Villanova University’s Connelly Center parking compliance was held with no vote. Public comment touched on stormwater management and Villanova parking impacts.
Yeah. Thank you all for coming. Um please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Uh I'd like to give notice uh that we had an executive session where we discuss legal and real estate matters just prior to this meeting. Thank you. All right, we're gonna start off with a presentation. Willows Park Preserve biannual update. There we go. Good evening. My name is Will Nord. I am the executive director at the Willows Park Reserve. We um always appreciate this time to stand up in front of you all and uh share the progress that we are making. Um a big thank you has to go out to all the support that we we receive from the commissioners and definitely the township staff from Miss Cohen, Mr. White, Mr. Norsini, Mr. Foster, Mr. Legerton. Um the communication is really appreciated and helpful. So thank you all for the support. Um always nice to give a quick refresher of um who we are and what we're doing and why we're doing that. Um so our our mission is to revitalize the Willows Mansion as an integral part of the Willows Park and open it to the community for a variety of reasons. Um everything that we do, the programs and the events and the money we try to raise towards restoring and revitalizing the Willows Mansion is all based around our nonprofits uh core values of community inclusivity, open space, historical preservation, lifelong learning, health and wellness, arts and culture, and collaboration. So, what's been going on at the Willows uh Park Preserve since we last stood in front of you about six months ago. Um the mansion itself has been used uh 98 times since since we last presented. Um of them are our weddings, and um some of them are for other uses private and public events. Um so the progress we are making, the model that we set up by hosting um some private weddings, allows us to keep the mansion open for other community events programs and on an informal basis. And here we show you all the different organizations and um that have used it the Willows Mansion over the last six months or so. Here's some pictures to show off of all the fun the community is using. Um we are making progress, um, which is fun to report. Um it you know set out to revitalize the Willows Mansion. We're continuing to be able to um check prior projects off the list and then also open the doors to the community. So some highlights um over the summer we we got to um invite three interns for the first time in our young nonprofits history. Um we've um proud to be recognized by the mainline chamber of commerce as nonprofit of the year, another kind recommendation from the um Delco Chamber of Commerce as well. Um of the improvements, two main improvements that we've done over the last six months or so. One is we installed new air conditioning um in the Willows Mansion that covers pretty much the first floor. There is no AC on the second floor or third floor. Um and then we also installed a new lightning rod system. Um so back when the the roof was redone, that system was taken off, and we had that reinstalled, so another layer of safety protection there. Um upcoming projects that we're focusing on over the next I'd say six months to um I guess six months to a year is repointing the terrace, um the existing terrace and the terrace wall, um, and and working on improving the uh the water infiltration in in the basement. So those are pretty sizable projects. Um in addition to those, in addition to installing the air conditioning, we continue to improve the the interior uh with some interior design, um whether that's furnishings, um artwork, painting on the inside. Um we'd also like to um give a shameless plug to our annual fall fundraiser on October 10th in a couple weekends. You will all invited. We'd love to see you there. Um, in addition to our annual fall fundraiser, any events that we have, all the commissioners and township staff at any time are are very welcome to come over to the Willows Mansion to see what's going on, to see the improvements, to ask us questions.