{"id":12614,"date":"2012-11-23T10:07:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T15:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=12614"},"modified":"2012-11-23T10:07:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T15:07:34","slug":"no-tax-hike-expected-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=12614","title":{"rendered":"No tax hike expected in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Taxes1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-12619\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Taxes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Taxes1-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a>BIRMINGHAM \u2014 The township\u2019s 2013 Budget is now available for public review, prior to formal approval by the supervisors on December 17.\u00a0 According to the draft document, the township is staying ahead of the game, with $1.8 million projected in revenue for the General Fund, versus an expected $1.3 million in expenditures.\u00a0 Real estate tax revenue is anticipated to remain about even with this year, with no change in the millage rate at 1.6 mills.<\/p>\n<p>Township Supervisors chair John Conklin announced he will draft a response to the request for comment from the county on the Act 167 Stormwater Management Plan.\u00a0 There is a 45-day review period before the ordinance is enacted.\u00a0 He reiterated his frustration with increased regulations that the municipalities are being required to meet, with no apparent benefit to the community.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey answer that the changes will make the water \u2018better\u2019 and the air \u2018better\u2019, without providing any real means of measurement, \u201c he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Supervisor Bill Kirkpatrick agreed, but stated the township needs to respond and comply with the regulations in order to re-apply for required discharge permits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2014Liz Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIRMINGHAM \u2014 The township\u2019s 2013 Budget is now available for public review, prior to formal approval by the supervisors on December 17.\u00a0 According to the draft document, the township is staying ahead of the game, with $1.8 million projected in revenue for the General Fund, versus an expected $1.3 million in expenditures.\u00a0 Real estate tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[1698,15,70,57],"class_list":["post-12614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-2013-budget","tag-birmingham","tag-taxes","tag-township-supervisors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}