Franklin Township supervisors will hold a special meeting to present the 2026 budget.

The meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. Monday, at which time the board of supervisors are expected to approve the presentation of next year’s spending plan to the public for their review.

In April, supervisors revoked a motion from March to do away with a previously approved tax increase.

Instead, supervisors rescinded the action to withdraw the 1-mill tax increase that was approved for this year’s budget.

In March, then-new Supervisor Jason Frey proposed the motion to rescind the tax. The board approved it on a 2-0 vote, with one abstention.

Frey, the then-newly appointed chairman, and Leroy Kemmerer Jr., voted in favor. Supervisor Fred Kemmerer Jr., who began the March meeting as board chairman, abstained from the vote because he wasn’t certain of the legality of such a move.

Frey said he thought the increase was wrong when the board had a $500,000 surplus, and then proposed that it eliminate the 1-mill tax increase that had previously been approved for this year.

But, township solicitor Tom Nanovic said at the March meeting that by not having the matter on the agenda, he wasn’t sure if the board could take such action.

In December, the former board of supervisors adopted this year’s budget with a 1-mill increase that raised the township’s millage rate from 7.64 to 8.64 mills.

Leroy Kemmerer Jr. was absent from that meeting.

As part of that budget, there is a $30 increase in garbage collection.

Regular customers who paid $255 in 2024 pay $285 this year. The senior rate didn’t increase and remained at $170.

This was the first increase in the township since 2010, when taxes were raised by 1.5 mills.