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Scranton officials present 2026 budget with no tax increase and new single-millage proposal
Summary
City presenters told council the proposed 2026 budget holds the line on taxes, shifts to a single real-estate millage pending county reassessment, budgets $115 million in revenue, and funds technology, public-safety capital and several new positions.
City presenters outlined a proposed 2026 operating budget that includes no property-tax increase and no tax-and-revenue anticipation note for a third straight year, while moving to a single real-estate millage contingent on a county reassessment.
Presenter (identified in the meeting as Speaker 2) told the council the administration is preparing the budget assuming the county will certify a new assessment and that the change from split millage to a single millage is designed to be revenue-neutral in the reassessment year. "There is no tax increase included in this year's budget, and there's no TRAN included in the budget," the presenter said. Staff estimated the adjusted millage would be roughly 6.0439 in 2026 if the reassessment is applied.
The budget document lays out $115 million in revenue for 2026, about $2.3 million higher than the 2025 operating budget. Key revenue drivers the presenters cited include a projected rise in earned-income tax receipts (budgeted at $37.4 million for 2026,…
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