Thursday, December 6, 2018

WEST MARLBOROUGH: Raise for employees

West Marlborough Township residents will see no tax increase, either in the real estate tax or the earned income tax, under the proposed 2019 budget, which the supervisors discussed at their Dec. 4 meeting.
Supervisors' chairman Bill Wylie said that the proposed budget is "very much like last year's budget," although the supervisors are keeping a close watch on two items that could affect expenditures in the future. The first is possible increases in financial support for the fire and ambulance companies that serve the township. The second would be part of the supervisors' ongoing efforts to discourage speeding and through traffic, which, as Mr. Wylie put it, "could involve some expense."
A vote on the 2019 budget will be taken on Thursday, Dec. 27, at 7 p.m. at the township office.
Township employees will get a 3 percent raise in 2019, prompting an amusing exchange between the board and longtime township secretary-treasurer Shirley Walton. She told the board that rather than a raise, she'd rather replace the township's aging Quicken software with QuickBooks.
Mr. Wylie, chuckling, said he was sorry, but she had to take the raise.
"Can I still get the software package?" Mrs. Walton quickly asked. He agreed.
Supervisor Hugh Lofting Sr. looked out at the audience in wonder.
"Only in West Marlborough," he said.
The township's annual reorganization meeting will be on Wednesday, Jan. 2, at 7 p.m. (not the usual Tuesday night, which is New Year's Day).

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