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City Council tabled the proposed 2021 budget Thursday, looking to meet in a week to perhaps finalize it.
Before doing so, however, council removed another $434,000 out of Mayor Derek Slaughter’s proposed spending plan, reducing the proposed tax increase in the millage rate to 1 mill.
But council remains unsatisfied, calling on Slaughter to find ways to further reduce his proposed spending plan.
“We made good progress and accomplished a lot, lowering the burden on taxpayers,” Councilwoman Liz Miele said. “I’d like to see us go further.”
Miele said she wants to see more effort from council and the administration to get the size of the tax increase lower for taxpayers.
Williamsport, Pa. â The Community Theatre League has been using the third floor of the Trade and Transit I Centre building on West Third Street in Williamsport without the city s knowledge, according to both the Mayor s office and city codes administrator, Joe Girardi.
In a city council ad-hoc building meeting held on Tuesday via Zoom, representatives from the CTL, members of city council, Mayor Slaughter, Joe Girardi, and Police Chief Damon Hagan continued discussions surrounding the organization s use of the third floor.
The CTL had, until recently, believed they were legal tenants in that building based on a signed, amended lease from 2015.