For the first time in 10 years, the residents of Antis Township will see a tax increase.
\nAt a meeting Monday, the supervisors agreed to the one-mill hike, which will cost the average taxpayer about $12 more a year, thus increasing township revenue by about $36,000.
\n\u201cWe sat, as a board of supervisors and we debated over that budget for quite awhile,\u201d said Chairman Supervisor Leo Matuszewski. \u201cRight now, we\u2019re in deficit spending mode. We do have a nice capital reserve, but what\u2019s going to happen is, if we don\u2019t start doing some off-setting, that\u2019s going to be gone in approximately four years at the rate we\u2019re spending.\u201d
\nIn addition to a \u2018yes\u2019 vote by Matuszewski, Ray Amato and Charles Taylor also affirmed. Dissenting votes were cast by Ron Gensamer and Sonny Hornsberger. The \u2018nay\u2019 voters wanted to use the capital reserves to balance the budget.
\n\u201cWhat we don\u2019t want to do is impact the people hard in a couple of years if we cannot cut expenses and increase revenue in other places,\u201d said Matuszewski. \u201cIf we increase one mill this year and get $36,000, and maybe next year, add another mill, we\u2019ll then increase it by about $72,000. That would be getting us very close to doing the offset of the deficit spending.
\n\u201cAnd at the same time, not hit our resident with a three, four or five-mill increase.\u201d
\nAccording to Matuszewski, the supervisors met their goal of lessening the blow to residents and allows them time to watch how things even out.
\n\u201cMaybe we\u2019ll have revenue come in that we didn\u2019t anticipate or maybe less expenses that we didn\u2019t anticipate,\u201d he said. \u201cPossibly, we might be able to remove the mill at the end of the year.\u201d
\nDespite the increase, Matuszewski said he felt the township kept things \u201cunder control fairly well\u201d over the last ten years.
\n\u201cAs time goes on, expenses keep increasing automatically and you can\u2019t control that,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have a unionized labor force that negotiates a contract that we have to honor and other expenses just keep going up and up. It just takes more money to run the township than it did ten, five or even a year ago.\u201d
\nThe next scheduled meeting of the Antis Township Board of Supervisors is Monday, Jan. 7 p.m. at the township building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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