Concord holds budget hearing

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A percentage breakdown of how tax dollars are spent, according to the proposed 2023 budget.

Concord Township Council Tuesday night held a hearing for the 2023 budget and the proposal offers no tax increase. Before the hearing, though, council members voted to grant Rosalie restaurant conditional use approval for outdoor dining. That conditional use hearing was held on Nov. 1.

Rosalie wants to move into the site of the former Ruby’s Diner in the Shoppes at Brinton Lake. The approval came with a total of 16 conditions. Among them are limiting the outdoor dining to April 1 through the end of October, and no outdoor bar, though patrons may be served alcohol from the indoor area. Access to the outdoor dining area may only be from inside the restaurant and the seating capacity is limited to 99 patrons.

As for the budget, the current millage rate is expected to remain what it has been. The current general fund millage rate is 0.206. Additionally, there are 0.064 mils for the library fund, 0.105 for fire services, and 0.139 for open space. Those millage rates combined come to 0.514 for properties that have fire hydrants, and 0.453 for properties without hydrants. (A mil is a tax of $1 for every $1,000 of assessed property value.)

Those figures break down to 40 percent of the tax revenue going toward general services, 12 percent for the library, 9 percent for fire services, 27 percent for open space, and 12 percent for fire hydrants.

In real numbers, the spending plan includes a general fund budget of $4,112,600 — both revenue and expenses.  — and includes $500,000 for the road program for paving projects, and more than $450,000 for land acquisition and historic preservation.

Furthermore, more than $800,000 is budgeted for public safety and $950,000 for trail and park Improvements, $270,000 dedicated to the Concordville Fire Co., and $800,000 for grant-funded projects.

The proposal includes a Sewer Operating Fund Budget of $4,089,965.

The full budget proposal with details of revenues and expenses can be found here.

Council is scheduled to vote on the budget at its next regular meeting on Dec. 6.

A percentage breakdown of revenue sources.

About Rich Schwartzman

Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.

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