No Tax Hike in 2013: Phoenixville Borough Council Passes Budget

The millage rate will stay at 5.25 the council decided on Tuesday night.

A year after an 18 percent hike, Phoenixville residents will get some relative tax relief this year, as the borough council voted to keep the millage rate at 5.25 at Tuesday night’s regular meeting. The draft budget borough manager E. Jean Krack presented in November originally called for a 1.3 percent tax increase, but higher than expected assessments from the county narrowed the projected 2013 shortfall from $47,000 to $17,000—and shrunk the corresponding tax hike to under one half of one percent. Rather than enact the smaller increase, the council decided to leave the millage rate unchanged. The body initially appeared poised to pass the budget with a tax increase, but after a brief debate, during which mayor Leo Scoda, councilmen David…

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