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Franklin tentatively approves next year’s budget with no millage increase

Franklin Township’s decade-plus streak of no municipal tax increase will remain intact next year.

Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously agreed to tentatively adopt the 2021 budget with no tax increase.

Board Chairman Jason Frey announced there will be no tax increase.

That will leave the millage rate in check at 7.64 mills. Of that, 6.3 mills is for general purposes; 0.537 for the capital reserve building fund; and 0.800 for the fire hydrant fund for properties within 780 feet of fire hydrants.

The board plans to grant the budget final adoption at next month’s meeting.

Residents did see a $10 increase in their garbage bills this year, which supervisors said would equate to an 83-cent per month increase.

That marked the first time garbage rates went up since 2009, and was done to help the township counter the rising costs of health care, unfunded state mandates (MS4), and repairs to older vehicles/trucks.

The last time residents saw a tax increase was in 2010, when taxes were raised by 1.5 mills.