Saturday, December 22, 2012
Media Borough Council approved the 2013 budget at its meeting Thursday with no tax increase to residents.
Media Borough Council unanimously approved the 2013 budget at its meeting Thursday with no mill change to residents. The $9.2 million total budget brings no tax change to residents. The rate will remain at three mills, which is $375 for the average home assessment of $125,000, Borough Manager Jeff Smith said. Breaking down the $9,206,845 million total budget, the general fund holds $7.62 million, capital fund $1.41 million, recreation fund $64,500 and liquid fuels fund $100,250. A few of the larger expenditures projected for the 2013 capital fund are maintenance and updating at Borough Hall at $50,000, the purchase of a new police vehicle as well as computers and hand held radios for police at $40,000, maintenance to the parking garage and…
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Middletown Township Council approved its $3.8 million budget and residents will not see a tax rate increase.
Middletown Township residents will not see a property tax rate increase in 2013. Council approved its 2013 operating budget, which is balanced at $3,880,720 and the property tax rate will remain at 1.6 mills. An average residential home assessed at $194,000 will pay $310 in overall property taxes, the same as last year. In 2012, that same average assessed home paid $1,029 in county property tax and $4,316 in school district property taxes, Council President Scott Galloway said. (See attached PDF file.) The 2013 operating budget includes a few larger, one-time expenses, including excavating sewer trenches, replacing cable guide posts with metal guardrail along a portion of Mt. Alverno and E. Knowlton roads at a cost of $122,000. The …
Friday, May 27, 2011
The 2011-2012 proposed final Rose Tree Media School District budget would bring a zero real estate tax increase to residents if approved.
The 2011-2012 proposed final Rose Tree Media School District budget would bring a zero real estate tax increase to residents if approved and no programs were cut to achieve that goal. The proposed $80.6 million budget represents a 1.43 percent decrease from last year’s approved budget, according to Director of Management Service for the District Grace Eves. The district lost $1.1 million in state funding but it was also able to make reductions in professional services for substitute teachers, security guards, travel expenses and equipment requests in order to prevent a tax increase, according to Eves. "Reductions though savings are the result of energy conservation, an early retirement incentive program in which 15 teachers and two support…
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Jim Beam
7:24 pm on Saturday, December 22, 2012
Great job borough council. more ›