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Highlands council adopts 2025 municipal budget, approves consent agenda and introduces bond ordinances
Summary
At its April 16 meeting the Borough of Highlands council adopted the 2025 municipal budget, approved a multi-item consent agenda including dredging and shared-services actions, passed a sign ordinance on final reading and introduced two bond ordinances for sewer and capital improvements for public hearing on May 7, 2025.
The Borough of Highlands mayor and council adopted the 2025 municipal budget and approved a slate of routine resolutions at their April 16 regular meeting.
Pat, a borough staff member, summarized the budget during the public hearing, saying the borough’s assessed value increased from $1,092,000,000 in 2024 to about $1,347,000,000 in 2025 and that “it’s going to go to 0.8,” referring to an estimated drop in the tax rate from roughly 0.935. “It’s very lean, it’s precise and it’s workable,” Pat said. After that presentation the council offered and seconded resolution R25-109 to adopt the 2025 budget; the motion carried.
The council also approved the consent agenda (resolutions R25-100 through R25-108). The items read into the record included…
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