Borough to send out RFP for new baler

The Petersburg Borough will send out a request for proposals for a new baler, after the assembly approved the decision on Monday.

In January, the borough assembly passed Ordinance 2018-21, which allocates $600,000 towards the replacement of the borough’s baler. The request for proposals, or RFP, has a deadline of April 4, and gives a description of what is needed from the baler and the bidder.

At Monday’s assembly meeting, assembly member Bob Lynn was concerned with how similar in scope the potential new baler, as laid out in the RFP, is to the current one.

“Through the course of discussing th...