The North Lebanon Township Board of Supervisors adopted its 2023 budget at Monday’s meeting.
Chairman Ed Brensinger abstained from the vote due to a conflict of interest as a township employee whose wages are affected by the budget. Vice chairman Gary Heisey and treasurer Ardy Snook both voted to enact the budget.
Township taxes remain consistent into the new year.
Property taxes are 1.59 mills or $15.90 per hundred dollars of a property’s assessed value. The fire tax remains at .420 mills.
The township anticipates revenues of $4,867,711 and expenditures of $4,864,530.
Read More: North Lebanon Township supervisors advertise the drafted 2023 budget
Supervisors were also presented with the choice to approve continued participation in the Cornwall-Lebanon Regional Comprehensive Plan, which is undergoing an update from the 2013 agreement.
The proposed update would cost $60,000 total, or $12,000 per municipality involved. It is also possible that number may be halved to $6,000 upon receipt of a grant.
Cornwall and West Cornwall have already agreed to participate in the plan, conditional on the $6,000 grant.
Read More: Cornwall council passes 2023 budget, joins regional comprehensive plan
The comprehensive, or “comp,” plan is a development agreement that allows the municipalities in the Cornwall-Lebanon School District to collaborate planning. It is advisory and non-binding.
The board opted to table a vote regarding the comp plan until its reorganization meeting Jan. 3 to give board members time to think it over.
In other news, the board:
- Unanimously agreed to approve a new 13-month contract with IntermixIT, following the expiration of last year’s contract.
- Voted to advertise a new curb and sidewalk ordinance for advertisement, with Snook opposed due to a requirement that residents maintain the curbing along their properties. The ordinance also requires that residents clear their sidewalks of snow or debris and adequately trim trees overhanging sidewalks.
- Unanimously approved the Hanford Minor subdivision plan, dissolving a lot along North 25th Street and dividing the land between three adjoining lots at 2499 Cumberland St.
- Unanimously approved the stormwater management plan, BMP O&M agreement, improvements guarantee agreement, and $26,000 letter of credit for development at 2300 Weavertown Road.
- Unanimously approved a stormwater only plan, BMP O&M agreement, and improvements guarantee agreement for a driveway construction at 310 Sunset Lane, conditional on letter of credit for $8,514.
- Unanimously ratified the approval of a non-emergency trip by several members of Glenn Lebanon Fire Company to Florida to examine their new fire truck. The trip occurred Dec. 14-16 and was not at township expense.
- Unanimously agreed to release $30,000 from the Fire Company Capital Reserve Fund to Ebenezer Fire Company for its around $26,000 annual payment on an equipment loan, plus an additional principle on the loan.
- Unanimously approved minutes of its Nov. 21 and 22 meetings, along with a meeting with NLTMA Nov. 10.
- Unanimously approved the advertisement of a zoning amendment hearing regarding 1675 and part of 1677 Grace Ave. Jan. 16 at 7:15 p.m.
North Lebanon supervisors meet at the township municipal building the third Monday of each month at 7 p.m. A reorganization meeting will be held Jan. 3 and the following meeting will be held Jan. 16. The meetings are open to the public and do not require prior registration.
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