The proposed 2010 budget for Berlin Township was presented Tuesday night with no increase in taxes. Chairman Paul Henry, however, expressed concern.
“I don’t know how we’ll get through another year without raising taxes,” Henry said at the Supervisors’ meeting. “We’ll try. There’s a lot to do on the roads.”
The proposed budget includes $329,200 in revenue. The Supervisors agreed to advertise it for public inspection, before adoption next month.
Henry said that a road maintenance plan must be developed, with top priority of protecting their good roads. Although residents want to know when their rough dirt roads will be fixed, he said that their biggest investment has been their paved roads, and they have to be sealed.
Supervisors agreed to black top a section of Bayly Road where a new sluice pipe had been put in. Bailie Rutherford, who lives on that road, asked again what would be done. He was concerned that modified material applied there would deteriorate with winter road salt.
Rutherford reminded that the Township has fortunately paid off the black topping loan.
Berlin Supervisors meet on the third Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Center.
