GORDON - The borough council formally adopted its 2013 operating budget at a special meeting Friday that includes no tax increase.
Vice President Mary Ellen Mulligan conducted the meeting with a quorum of four.
Councilman Jeffrey Hoffman made the motion, with Councilman Barry Brecker providing the second. The vote was unanimous, with Mulligan, Hoffman, Brecker and Polly Wolfgang in favor. Absent from the vote was Michael Rader, Kurt Lynch and Valerie Stitzer.
Real estate taxes will remain at 8.5 mills. The budget includes $361,963 in revenues and $361,777 in expenditures.
"It's balanced with no tax increase," Brecker said after the vote.
"There is only $186 left that is unappropriated, so you know the budget is pretty tight," Paul L. Snyder, borough secretary/treasurer, said.
The council also adopted the 2013 tax ordinance to set the tax rates.
Since the special meeting was advertised for general purposes, the borough council also voted to retain Donald Cuff of Entech Engineering Inc. as project manager for the roof replacement project on the municipal building. Cuff will prepare the bid document and provide inspection services during the project and do a final inspection for $6,000.
After the meeting, Snyder showed some areas where the roof has been leaking and caused damage to ceiling tiles, indicating the need for the roof replacement.
"Out in the hall and going to the truck bays, it's leaking like a sieve," Snyder said.