Posted: Monday, December 10, 2012 10:00 pm | Updated: 1:51 am, Tue Dec 11, 2012.
Morrisville Borough Council voted Monday night to approve a 2013 final budget of $5.6 million with no property tax increase.That means the borough’s millage rate will remain at 40.93 mills next year.
The council voted 5-3 to approve the $5,660,929 spending plan. Council members Eileen Dreisbach, Todd Sanford and Debbie Smith voted no.
The 2013 budget will also charge residents about $20 less for trash pickup next year.
“It’s a balanced budget with 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, he said.
Morrisville’s budget comprises eight separate funds totaling the $5.6 million spending plan.
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.
The borough will spend nearly 10 percent of its budget, $538,204, on administrative costs while $223,835 will go toward recreational programs.
Other funds include library at $209,935, street lighting at $164,397, 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 of between 4 and 6 percent were also included in the plan.
One mill is equal to $1 of tax for every $1,000 of assessed property value. To calculate your tax, multiply the millage figure by your assessed property value. Don’t forget to add three decimal places to the millage figure to get the accurate tax. For example, a 25-mill increase on a home assessed at $5,000 amounts to .025 times $5,000 or $125 in taxes.
The 2013 budget will also charge residents about $20 less for trash pickup next year.
“It’s a balanced budget with 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, he said.
Morrisville’s budget comprises eight separate funds totaling the $5.6 million spending plan.
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.
The borough will spend nearly 10 percent of its budget, $538,204, on administrative costs while $223,835 will go toward recreational programs.
Other funds include library at $209,935, street lighting at $164,397, 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 of between 4 and 6 percent were also included in the plan.
One mill is equal to $1 of tax for every $1,000 of assessed property value. To calculate your tax, multiply the millage figure by your assessed property value. Don’t forget to add three decimal places to the millage figure to get the accurate tax. For example, a 25-mill increase on a home assessed at $5,000 amounts to .025 times $5,000 or $125 in taxes.
21 comments:
Same haters voting no on everything and never adding anything positive. WTF?
Can we have a recall election?
Sadly, they will continue to get elected in their wards.
Sadly there are two school board members who do the same
They deserve each other. We don't deserve them.
Debbie Smith is the puzzling one. She looks at first glance like she might have an independently functioning brainstem, but apparently looks can be deceiving, for she's an SOC sheeple Burgerbot all the way.
3rd ward represent! Never judge a book by its cover. I knew this dude, looked like a lady.
It would be nice if there was at least some logical reasoning to their objections, but all I can see is a constant negativity about everything. It's like we have Scrooge, the Grinch and Fagin on council.
I would like to know as well why they voted no it makes no sense. no tax hike and a reduction in your trash bill. Voting no just to vote no is foolish and will backfire one day don't they know people in their ward don't agree with them on most issues.come on people stop voting for someone just because you know their name.
it's time for the 1st ward to elect someone who has the good of our whole town at heart.
Jane Burger thats why
I think I already know the answer but are people really that dumb and gullible that another person could manipulate and control them like that?
"I think I already know the answer but are people really that dumb and gullible that another person could manipulate and control them like that?"
(sadly) YES!!!!!
Welcome to Morrisville Borough.
WWJD
What Would Jane Do?
Jane told Smith, Sanford and Dreisbach to take their broken toys and go home. It's not their way right now so Jane told them to get on the highway. Like good little sheeple they listen and follow. Ironically, they think they've made these decisions on their own.
So I guess the the Burger bot whack-a-doodles want tax increases? That's the only conclusion I see.
All those numbers all those different places the numbers go in, they don't even try to ask questions, it's all too confusing for their pea brains to comprehend.
Don't blow off the budget meetings, then say you don't understand & vote "no" to the budget. If you cannot read a simple budget, step down!
They don't have to read the budget, Jane will do it for them.
In Jane We Trust
Has she ever steered us wrong before? Ha ha ha
Right, wrong who cares it's all about the power. She's their path to power, their chance to be in charge of something. Where else in their lives would they be able to be in charge of something? You got it. Nowhere. This is it, their chance to be Big Fish in a Small Pond. They don't care that they suck at their jobs, they just care that they have them.
I don't believe this is true for everyone who sits on council.
No you're right I'm talking about the BurgerBots, Smith, Dreisback, Sanford.
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