When it comes to holding the line on the tax rate, Franklin Township has been a model of success.

That trend will continue again in 2024 after supervisors adopted the budget with no tax increase.

Next year’s spending plan will leave the rate at 7.64 mills, said board Chairman Fred Kemmerer Jr.

“We haven’t had a tax increase in quite some time, and this is just another year that we will not,” Kemmerer said.

The board also adopted a resolution to leave next year’s garbage collection rates the same.

Regular customers will again pay $255, while the senior rate stays at $170.

Kemmerer touted the township’s diligence in getting people who are delinquent to pay.

Last month, supervisors granted tentative adoption of the budget, leaving the rate at 7.64 mills.

Last December, the board unanimously agreed to adopt this year’s budget with no tax increase, much to the delight of the roughly 20 residents who packed the cramped meeting room inside the township municipal building.

On the brink of its first tax increase in over a decade, supervisors at that meeting reversed course amid impassioned pleas from residents who implored them to not raise taxes.

At a budget workshop in November 2022, supervisors tentatively adopted this year’s spending plan with a 1.5-mill increase.

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

The garbage collection fee was raised by $20, from $235 to $255 for regular customers.

The senior rate did not increase and remained at $170.