SANATOGA PA – The public gets its first look tonight (Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009) at the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township tentative budget for 2010, during the township Board of Commissioners meeting that begins at 7 p.m. in the municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd., Pottstown PA.
- This event has been added to The Post calendar.
Township staff members and various commissioners’ committees have been at work on the annual spending plan over the last four months, and most intently during the past two. Although all five commissioners pretty much know its content by heart, the budget document itself was officially distributed for their private review during the Nov. 5 (2009) board meeting.
The key question in this, and every budget, is whether Lower Pottsgrove property owners face a tax increase next year.
The township has lost some revenues on which it once counted as a result of the local and national economic downturn, and some of its costs have risen. On the other hand, commissioners and Manager Rodney Hawthorne have occasionally boasted this year of their continued cost-cutting measures. The township also still has hundreds of thousands of dollars available in its savings accounts, known as a fund balance, to supplement revenues and offset the need for a tax hike.
As part of the process, commissioners tonight likely will approve motions to advertise a December meeting regarding budget and tax-enabling resolutions.
Also tonight, commissioners:
- Will consider changing rules that affect the township Civil Service Commission;
- Plan to approve a schedule of township meetings for the coming year; and
- Have announced their intent to conduct an executive session to privately discuss an unidentified personnel matter.
A copy of the board’s agenda is available now for download from the township website.
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