SAINT CLAIR - During a special meeting Thursday night, the borough council tentatively adopted its 2013 budget with a tax increase.
The borough council also authorized the advertisement of the tax ordinance for 2013, setting the real estate tax at 4 mills.
"This is a slight increase over the 2013 tax rate, which was 3.34 mills," said Roland Price, borough treasurer.
Price said the millage is a 0.66-mill increase to help finance the continuing battle against the Blythe Recycling and Demolition Site landfill.
The Saint Clair Borough Council is appealing a July 16 decision by the state Department of Environmental Protection to approve the landfill application to allow Blythe Township to construct and operate a municipal waste facility on 252 acres along Burma Road, overturning a previous decision.
The proposed site is 2,400 feet from Wolf Creek Reservoir, the drinking water source for Pottsville, Mechanicsville, Palo Alto, Port Carbon, Saint Clair and parts of Blythe, East Norwegian, New Castle and Norwegian townships.
It's proposed that the lined landfill will only accept construction and demolition waste and have a 1,500-ton daily volume.
The budget is on public display at the Saint Clair borough hall.