Hopewell Borough Council adopts $3.54M budget for municipal operations in 2021
Members of the Hopewell Borough Council adopted a $3.54 million municipal budget to fund the borough’s municipal operations for 2021.
Council President Charles Schuyler Morehouse, Councilman Chris Fossel, Councilman David Mackie and Councilwoman Samara McAuliffe voted “yes” on the budget’s adoption during a virtual council meeting on May 6.
Councilman Ryan Kennedy and Councilwoman Debra Stuhler were absent from the meeting.
“The budget represents a penny tax rate increase from 2020. 2020 was a flat tax rate year, the first one in decades,” Borough Administrator Michele Hovan said during the meeting. “We are using about three pennies in surplus to put this together. We needed to use a little bit of the surplus to keep the tax increase soft. That is the same path we will be on for a little while.”
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Pennington and Hopewell Borough councils re-elect council presidents
Council members in Pennington Borough and Hopewell Borough have re-elected each of their council presidents from 2020.
During reorganization meetings on Jan. 4, Catherine Chandler was elected council president for the Pennington Borough Council and Charles Schuyler Morehouse was also elected to serve as council president for the Hopewell Borough Council.
Pennington: After Chandler and Kennen Gross were sworn in to start their three-year terms on the borough council, Councilman Charles Marciante nominated Chandler for council president. Fellow council members went on to vote unanimously in favor of her election.
“I was very happy to be reelected to council and to once again be asked to serve as Council President, to support Mayor Joe Lawver. In 2021, we will continue to face some of challenges of 2020, as we work to serve the community with the continued restrictions of COVID-19,” Chandler said in a statem