{"id":5652,"date":"2012-12-07T15:48:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T20:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2012-12-07T15:48:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T20:48:30","slug":"boroughs-2013-budget-includes-10-tax-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=5652","title":{"rendered":"Borough&#8217;s 2013 budget includes 10% tax hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Increase needed to fund capital improvements, officials said<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">By Kathleen Brady Shea<\/span><\/strong>, <em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Managing Editor, The Times<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/KSbudget.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5661\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" title=\"KSbudget\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/KSbudget-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/KSbudget-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/KSbudget-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/KSbudget.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>Kennett Square\u2019s Borough Council adopted\u00a0 its 2013 budget Monday night, a $14.5 million spending plan that includes a \u00bd-mill tax increase, and hikes of three and five percent for utilities and solid waste respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Borough Manager Brant Kucera said the council voted unanimously to approve the budget, which contained a 10 percent millage increase. He said residents seemed to understand that the hike was needed.<\/p>\n<p>One-quarter of the increase will be dedicated to capital improvements, such as streetscape projects on South Walnut Street and West Cypress Street, Kucera said. The bulk of \u00a0those two initiatives are covered by grants, but the borough has to fund 25 percent, he said. \u201cResidents know that they&#8217;ll be able to see concrete examples of where the money is spent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The tax increase will cost the median taxpayer $65 a year, based on a home value of $125,000, Kucera said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a responsible budget,\u201d said Borough Council Vice President Danilo Maffei. \u201cWe\u2019re investing in the town and its personnel, setting ourselves up for future success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increase needed to fund capital improvements, officials said By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Kennett Square\u2019s Borough Council adopted\u00a0 its 2013 budget Monday night, a $14.5 million spending plan that includes a \u00bd-mill tax increase, and hikes of three and five percent for utilities and solid waste respectively. Borough Manager Brant Kucera said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1538,1537,1536],"class_list":["post-5652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-borough-council-vice-president-danilo-maffei","tag-borough-manager-brant-kucera","tag-kennett-squares-borough-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}