Lower Pottsgrove's municipal building.
SANATOGA PA – It’s that budget time of year again.
The 2012 budget committee of the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Board of Commissioners is scheduled to meet twice on Tuesday afternoons during October, Manager Rodney Hawthorne announced Tuesday (Sept. 13, 2011) in an advertisement in The (Pottstown PA) Mercury newspaper, the municipality’s publication of record for legal notices.
Committee meetings will be held Oct. 4 and 18, both beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd., Sanatoga PA. Those discussions are separate from the full board’s regular monthly meetings, scheduled for Oct. 3 (Monday) and Oct. 20 (Thursday), respectively. Committee sessions in years past have run for as little as one hour and as long and 2-1/2 hours.
Work on the budget has been under way in earnest for about six weeks. The spending plan must be approved by commissioners before year’s end; public discussions on the document usually are held in late November or early December. A key component in all township budgets is the cost of waste disposal – during 2011 it amounted to 7.5 percent of Lower Pottsgrove’s expenses – and the board is in the process of negotiating a new trash-hauling contract.
Any delay in completing talks about a hauling contract may, but is not expected to, delay the committee’s deliberations.
Although the notice does not specifically invite public input during the committee’s meetings, comments likely will not be denied, either.
Related (to the Lower Pottsgrove 2012 budget):
- Township Committee Planning Two Budget Meetings
- Thanks To Survey Input, Township Preparing Trash Bids
- Pottstown Library Asks Township For Higher Funding
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