Council adopts budget
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WAYNESBURG – Waynesburg Borough Council adopted a 2014 budget Monday that holds the line on property taxes.
Council adopted a budget listing expenditures at $1,543,090, which represents about a $90,000 increase compared to this year’s budget.
Taxes in the borough will remain at 9 mills. Of that, 7.5 mills are dedicated to the general fund; 0.6 mill is dedicated to fire services; 0.6 mill is dedicated to street lights; and 0.3 mill is dedicated to capital street improvements.
The budget is similar to this year’s budget in regard to income and expenditures, borough manager Mike Simms said.
The general fund lists $658,745 for public safety, which includes police; $648,820 for miscellaneous expenses, including hospitalization, retirement and insurance; $146,125 for general government; $66,000 for public works and $23,100 for recreation.
Council also adopted a sewage fund budget of $810,235, which includes salaries for public works employees and a highway aid fund budget of $84,624.
In other business, council approved the annual Christmas bonus for borough employees. Each will receive a $100 gift card to Giant Eagle.
Council agreed to contact Bill Wentzel, retired forester, to inspect the commons to determine which trees should be cut down and where additional trees should be planted.
Council will hold a workshop meeting at 6 p.m. Monday with its engineers to review preliminary design plans for improvements to the borough’s sewer system.
The borough is required by the state Department of Environmental Protection to separate its storm sewers from its sanitary sewers and to halt infiltration of its sewage system from water in Ten Mile Creek.
The project is estimated to cost $4 million.
Simms reported the state Department of Transportation has opened bids for a project to improve sidewalks on Lincoln Street that will be funded with the borough’s Safe Routes to School grant.
The project will involve replacing the sidewalk and curbs on the south side of Lincoln Street from Morgan Street to about West Street. The apparent low bid was submitted by A. Merante Contracting for $214,988. The work is expected to begin in the spring.
Council will hold its reorganization meeting at 6 p.m. Jan. 6.