The county commissioners on Wednesday, June 26, distributed $100,000 from the $5 fee added to vehicle registrations toward two municipal road improvement projects.

The commissioners allocated $50,000 to Clinton Township to help pay for repaving a 2.3-mile section of Cherry Valley Road to resolve rutting, and another $50,000 to Oakland Township toward the reconstruction of Fallecker Road and other roads damaged by stormwater flooding.

The allocations go toward the total cost of the projects. The Oakland Township project costs $490,292, and the Clinton Township project costs $168,500, said Mark Gordon, the county’s chief of economic development and planning.

He said the fee has provided more than $700,000 for infrastructure projects and generated millions in investments. The fee took effect in 2018.

“Thus far we have approved and we have distributed $751,599 from the $5 fee program across 11 projects through various municipalities,” Gordon said.

The funding has generated $10 million in investments, he said. The program expires in December 2028.

Commissioner Kim Geyer said proceeds from the fee help municipalities that would have to wait years or decades to come up with enough money for road and bridge projects without it.

Use of the $5 fee funds also was approved to pay HRG Inc., the county’s engineering consultant, $85,260 to develop a capital improvement plan for county-owned bridges.

The commissioners also approved several measures that use the county’s opioid misuse settlement funds.

One is a memorandum of understanding that allocates up to $25,000 to six ambulance services for reimbursement for responding to overdose calls that insurance companies won’t pay for because the patient refuses to be taken to a hospital.

Butler Ambulance Service, Cranberry Township Emergency Medical Service, East Butler Volunteer Fire company Ambulance, Harmony EMS, Quality EMS and Saxonburg Volunteer Fire Company Ambulance can receive reimbursement of up to $125 per call through March 31, 2025, or until the money has been paid out.

The commissioners extended four contracts funded by the opioid settlement.

The Recover Empower Institute had its contract for the Medication Assisted Treatment Support Group extended to Dec. 31 and its contract amount increased by $45,000 to $134,550.

Butler County Community College’s contract for the Hope is Dope program was extended to Dec. 31, and its contract amount was increased by $35,000 to $135,000.

The Center for Community Resources’s contract to provide a housing coordinator and a reintegration apartment was extended to Dec. 31, and its contract amount was increased by $10,264 to $80,264.

The Nonprofit Development Corporation’s contract to operate the Center on Center recovery center also was extended to Dec. 31, but with no change in funding.

In other business, the commissioners tabled voting on a $75,000 bid from Carmen Paliotta Contracting of Allegheny County, the lone bid submitted, to provide steel pilings for the Keister Road bridge replacement project in Slippery Rock Township.

Before the commissioners’ meeting, the salary board approved annual pay raises for four years for the county’s full-time, nonunion employees. Those hired on or before March 31 of each year from this year through 2027 will receive a .5% raise every year on July 1.