Posted: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 6:30 pm | Updated: 7:17 pm, Tue Nov 20, 2012.
Posted on November 20, 2012
Morrisville Borough Council voted Monday night to approve a $5.6 million preliminary budget for 2013.The budget, which totals $5,660,929, includes no property tax increase, officials said.The municipal tax rate is projected to remain at 40.93 mills in 2013. The owners of an average home assessed at $20,000 will pay $818 to the borough.
The proposed borough spending plan for 2013 would also charge residents about $20 less for trash pickup next year.
“It’s a balanced budget and there is no tax increase,” said borough Manager Tom Bates. “The residents will also get another break on sanitation and recycling fees.”
The 2012 final budget charged residents $52 less for trash pickup, bringing the total reduction over the last two years to $72, said Bates.
Morrisville’s budget comprises eight separate funds totaling the proposed $5.6 million budget.
Roughly 28 percent of that money, $1.6 million, will go toward supporting the police department. The other largest line item in the spending plan is sanitation at $1.03 million.
Non-uniformed administrative employees salaries range from $5,431 for a part-time administrative clerk to $45,000 for borough manager.
The budget states that 50 percent of many administrative salaries come from the general fund and the remainder is distributed in other funds.
The police force has 10 full-time officers, four part-timers and one police chief. Their current salaries and wages are:
Other funds include library at $209,835, street lighting at $165,397, emergency services at $122,535 and pensions at $29,532.
The budget also calls for a transfer of $51,759 from the general fund to the capital reserve fund for the purchase of a new police radio system.
As required by contract, the non-uniformed administrative employees will receive a 3 percent raise. Increases for police officers between 4 and 6 percent were also included in the plan.
The council voted 5-3 to approve the proposed budget during Monday night’s meeting. Council members Eileen Dreisbach, Todd Sanford and Debbie Smith voted against the official spending plan.
Smith said she voted against the budget because the document wasn’t clear. Expenses such as recreation are broken down into various accounts making it difficult to track spending, she said.
“This budget was carefully prepared by our entire staff,” said Council President Nancy Sherlock. “We anticipate zero tax increase while still providing the current service level.”
Officials will vote on whether to adopt the 2013 final budget during their Dec. 10 meeting. It begins at 7:30 p.m. in borough hall off Union Street.
The proposed borough spending plan for 2013 would also charge residents about $20 less for trash pickup next year.
“It’s a balanced budget and there is no tax increase,” said borough Manager Tom Bates. “The residents will also get another break on sanitation and recycling fees.”
The 2012 final budget charged residents $52 less for trash pickup, bringing the total reduction over the last two years to $72, said Bates.
Morrisville’s budget comprises eight separate funds totaling the proposed $5.6 million budget.
Roughly 28 percent of that money, $1.6 million, will go toward supporting the police department. The other largest line item in the spending plan is sanitation at $1.03 million.
Non-uniformed administrative employees salaries range from $5,431 for a part-time administrative clerk to $45,000 for borough manager.
The budget states that 50 percent of many administrative salaries come from the general fund and the remainder is distributed in other funds.
The police force has 10 full-time officers, four part-timers and one police chief. Their current salaries and wages are:
- Chief of police: $82,103
- 10 full-time officers: $63,381 each
- Four part-time officers: $19.76 per hour
Other funds include library at $209,835, street lighting at $165,397, emergency services at $122,535 and pensions at $29,532.
The budget also calls for a transfer of $51,759 from the general fund to the capital reserve fund for the purchase of a new police radio system.
As required by contract, the non-uniformed administrative employees will receive a 3 percent raise. Increases for police officers between 4 and 6 percent were also included in the plan.
The council voted 5-3 to approve the proposed budget during Monday night’s meeting. Council members Eileen Dreisbach, Todd Sanford and Debbie Smith voted against the official spending plan.
Smith said she voted against the budget because the document wasn’t clear. Expenses such as recreation are broken down into various accounts making it difficult to track spending, she said.
“This budget was carefully prepared by our entire staff,” said Council President Nancy Sherlock. “We anticipate zero tax increase while still providing the current service level.”
Officials will vote on whether to adopt the 2013 final budget during their Dec. 10 meeting. It begins at 7:30 p.m. in borough hall off Union Street.
12 comments:
You get that budget clearer and you just might get Debby Smith's vote. Yeah, right. I call BS on you Debby Smith.
Pure Burgerbot party line opposition that's all. They take their toys and go home when they aren't in charge. Nothing's any good unless they do it themselves and yet when they do it's usually bungled.
Did Hellman pay his trash bills?
just because somebody does not vote your way does not mean they are doing the town harm. a vote is a vote is a personal vote and if someone doesnt feel they have the info to vote properly doesnt mean they are wrong, it means someone may not have presented things clearly enough and perhaps the others feel threatened to vote one way or another
Yes that should be applied all around. Are you aware of any specific threats or are you just speculating? Did they receive threat letters in the U.S. mail? That's a Federal crime the U.S. Postal Service can investigate.
Once again, reading between the lines, "I'm totally unprepared because I only have this seat for the prestige, so I am not voting for this budget, measure, ordinance."
The budget isn't clear? Really? If that is the case, do your damn job, make it clear enough for you BEFORE the meeting and get the change entered before the vote. What is so hard about this. It's the same damn obstructionists over and over with the same damn lame excuses. These people should never have been elected to positions of responsibility in the first place. Can we vote to have them impeached?
I'm with you. The pattern of poor prep and obstruction for the sake of obstruction is well established. Decent candidates need to run against them in the next elections.
The budget's were much clearer when Jane Burger was running the show, correct? Nothing was broken down, it was all in one big account, right?
Burger:
leader of the gullible, uninformed, misinformed and easily led.
The really sad part is when her followers deviate from the plan and freelance they do even stupider stuff.
In regards to these tree complainers that's all these 47%er people do is take take take free stuff from those of us who work hard for a living. These people feel entitled to free personal tree service that us hard workers have to pay for. No wonder Obama won again. It's hard to compete with Santa Claus raining gifts down on people like that.
If Debbie Smith didn't feel she could vote for the budget because it wasn't clear enough, she should have attended the budget meetings instead of skipping them. When she was at, one of her many, trips to borough hall to bother the workers she should have asked someone to explain whatever she was having problems with. Her inability to read a basic budget tells me that she should not be in a councilperson's seat to begin with.
Don't make excuses for being an obstructionist, just follow along with the other two. I can't believe Morrisville isn't tired enough of these types of people to stop electing them.
"Her inability to read a basic budget tells me that she should not be in a councilperson's seat to begin with."
AGREED!
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