Under the second year of a two-year contract with Bux/Mont Refuse Service for weekly trash removal, each residence and apartment buildings with up to four units will pay $151 a year.
"People with homes assessed at higher values have been subsidizing trash bills for residents with homes of lower values," said Bruce DiMicco, budget committee chairman. "In 1991, they will no longer be paying a greater . . . share of the borough's trash bill."
Business operators who own their business sites also will get a break
because their property taxes will be lower, and they will no longer be subsidizing residential trash pickup, he said.
The council ordered its solicitor to advertise a $100 annual business- privilege tax to be levied on all of the approximately 130 businesses in the borough.
The new tax is "a lot lower than some of the other boroughs in Bucks," said Mayor Harold A. "Bud" Smith. Yardley imposes $330 a year, and New Hope collects $365 a year, he said.
The proposed budget included an increase to hire two new full-time police officers.
To continue to operate with three full-time officers and several part-time officers would cost $201,725 next year, while to hire two additional full-time officers and have "little if any use" of part-timers would cost $203,732, said council member Charles F. "Corky" Swartz.
While payroll costs would increase, "we won't have the expenses of buying uniforms, training and overtime incurred by the high turnover of part-time officers," Smith explained.
Another chunk of the proposed budget was $360,000 to rebuild Court and Chancellor Streets. Council President Frank B. Fabian Jr. said revenues for the work would come from an increase in the street-repair tax from 3 to 5
mills, "plus, we will probably wind up borrowing some money to do it."
The Borough Council is scheduled to vote on preliminary adoption of the budget on Nov. 13, with a vote on final adoption set for Dec. 11, Smith said.
