Kennett Township supervisors will consider advertising their draft budget and finalizing a proposed tax increase at tonight’s (Oct. 19) meeting.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the New Garden Township building, where recent meetings have been held while the township’s meeting room is remediated for mold. The meeting will not be live-streamed.
Final budget approval is slated for the supervisors’ Nov. 16 meeting.
The township’s 2023 proposed general fund budget includes a half-mil tax increase to help cover “large increases in expenses for police, fire and EMS,” according to budget documents found on the township’s website, Kennett.pa.us. “The vast majority of our operating expenses and growth in operating expenses support services directly visible and in touch with the community.
“The 2023 budget is extremely tight given large increases in expenses for police, fire, and EMS along with other inflationary pressures and large capital projects,” township Finance Director Amy Heinrich wrote in the budget presentation. “Reductions have already been made in most discretionary places, and we have declined many requests from department heads.”
A half-mil increase to 2.8 mils for the general fund real estate tax would mean taxpayers could expect to pay about $123 more. Total millage for Kennett Township residents is 3 mils and also includes 0.02 mils for the library real estate tax. A mil is $1 for every $1,000 of assessed value.
Police expenses account for 36 percent of the proposed general fund budget, and fire and EMS expenses account for 17 percent.
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Monica Thompson Fragale is a freelance reporter who spent her life dreaming of being in the newspaper business. That dream came true after college when she started working at The Kennett Paper and, years later The Reporter newspaper in Lansdale and other dailies. She turned to non-profit work after her first daughter was born and spent the next 13 years in that field. But while you can take the girl out of journalism, you can’t take journalism out of the girl. Offers to freelance sparked the writing bug again started her fingers happily tapping away on the keyboard. Monica lives with her husband and two children in Kennett Square.
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