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Springdale Township’s commissioners Thursday approved a 2024 spending plan that includes no tax increase for property owners but taps into the township’s reserves for it to be balanced. The budget anticipates $2.3 million in expenses, but only $1.7 million in revenue. Township savings will cover the roughly $600,000 deficit, said

Springdale Township will tap into its reserves to balance its budget for 2024 and prevent taxpayers from seeing an increase in their bills. The township estimates it will have $2.3 million in expenditures in 2024 but anticipates only $1.7 million in revenue, said Tim Basilone, vice president of the township

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officials will collect data on materials used in residential and commercial water connections when new meters are installed. The township commissioners agreed to include an advisory about that in letters being sent to residents whose old water meters are scheduled to be replaced with new remote-read meters. Commissioner

Lower Valley Ambulance Service is providing Spring­dale Township and the six other communities it serves with details about how the money would be spent if the municipalities agree to its appeal for a dedicated funding source to pay for its operations. Late last year, the ambulance service told officials in

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No tax increase is anticipated in Springdale Township’s 2023 budget despite an increase in expenditures. The roughly $1.2 million proposed budget, with taxes to remain at 6.5 mills, marks a 30.4% increase over the 2020 budget, which came in at $907,000. But that increase might seem misleading, as a large

Remote-read water meters are replacing obsolete models throughout Springdale Township under a program approved by the commissioners. The replacement program will cost the township between $260,000 and $320,000, with financing spread over a 10-year period, according to Rich Lenhart of Senate Engineering, the township engineer. Tim Basilone, the commissioners vice

Springdale Township commissioners hired a familiar figure throughout the lower Alle-Kiski Valley as their new township manager. William “Red” McElligott of Oakmont, a longtime aide to former State Rep. Frank Dermody, D-Oakmont, was hired by the commissioners Thursday to fill the new position. McElligott served as Dermody’s chief assistant and

Springdale Township will delay making a final decision on whether to reimburse Springdale Borough $34,000 for costs incurred during a waterline replacement project several years ago. The problem stems from 811 calls mismatched to the location of old water and natural gas lines along Butler-Logan Road in the township. The

Failing to plan is planning to fail. Sometimes bumper-sticker-type advice survives for a reason — because it’s true. The saying often ascribed apocryphally to Benjamin Franklin cautions us to know what we are doing before we plunge in headfirst. More than that, it smacks us on the back of the