From the BCCT.
Kudos to Hizzoner. I'm not all that happy that the current condition of our police department is posted for public consumption. However, Tom Wisnosky's generosity is a genuine piece of good news coming from a rather grim week of news featuring the 'Ville.
Council approves budget with $70 tax hike
The mayor is donating his 2009 salary for new guns for police officers.
By DANNY ADLER
STAFF WRITER
Morrisville residents will pay about $70 more next year in municipal property taxes, according to a final budget approved unanimously this week by the council.
On Monday it approved a $5.77 million spending plan — up about $500,000 from this year’s budget — with increased expenses for public works, emergency services and rising sanitation charges.
The millage will increase 3.5 mills to 39.43 mills next year and a homeowner with a property assessed at the borough average of $20,000 will pay about $788 in borough taxes, about $70 more than this year.
One mill, or about $60,000, of the tax hike is allocated for public works trucks and equipment. Another mill will go to the Morrisville Fire Co. for new fire equipment. One and a half mills of the increase, roughly $90,000, are set for the Morrisville Ambulance Squad after being approved by voter referendum.
The residential sanitation charges are set at $357, a $15 increase. The commercial charge will increase $26 to $606. The sanitation increases make up for rising costs by the borough’s trash hauler, Allied Waste Services.
The largest expense for the borough continues to be its police department, accounting for $1.53 million of borough spending.
With a $60,000 increase for the police department budget over this year’s, the borough will fork out money for higher department salaries, as well as office and equipment improvements.
Mayor Thomas Wisnosky said Monday night that he will donate his $2,900 salary next year to the police department so it can purchase new guns for its officers.
Wisnosky said the department uses weapons that are “20-some years old.” “That’s way too old,” the mayor said.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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Way to go Mayor Tom!
The Police Dept. apparently is gonna need that extra funding, and more, so they can spend their mornings & afternoons writing citations to parents who violate parking/traffic laws dropping their children off at school, people with out-of-state license plates on their cars, and children who walk down the middle of the streets.
Additional taxes may also have to be levied to fund a Hellmann-inspired, Mihok parroted initiative to have boro Code Enforcement Officers check the occupancy/# of children status of Apartment Complex dwellers. I can hear the Constitution ripping already!
As discussed at the Dec. 11 joint school board-boro council meeting, the above seem to be the major scourges afflicting Morrisville, at least according to Marlys Mihok and Al Radosti.
Oh, and additional police tax funding may be needed if the school district decides to implement a paper/cardboard recycling program to raise funds for the district. In Al's world, a bin full of paper is as good as torched by an arsonist, probably a student who he now wants to put the elementary school kids in with. Count on Al & Marlys to assume the absolute worst in everyone - makes 'em feel more at home, I guess.
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