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Perkiomen supervisors review 2025 budget, approve payments and contracts, accept resignations
Summary
The board reviewed the proposed 2025 General, Capital and Liquid Fuels budgets (no general or fire-tax increases proposed), authorized advertisement of the proposed budget, approved a salt-shed change order and multiple payments, authorized a two-year traffic signal maintenance contract, and accepted two Planning Commission resignations.
At its Nov. 6 meeting Perkiomen Township's Board of Supervisors reviewed and authorized advertisement of the proposed 2025 budget and approved a slate of operational contracts and payments.
Township Manager Cecile Daniel presented the proposed 2025 budgets: the General Fund operating budget is proposed at $3,911,414 with projected revenues of $3,797,710; the Capital Fund is proposed at $390,410 (down from $1,098,410 in 2024). Combined General and Capital are proposed at $4,301,824; Daniel said the township would draw an estimated $504,114 from reserves to balance the proposed budgets. The minutes state there is no proposed tax increase for the General Fund or the Fire Tax Fund for 2025. The Fire Tax Budget includes $750,000 of the purchase price for a new fire truck, with remaining funds expected via a 2% state loan. The board voted to authorize advertisement of the proposed 2025 budget for consideration at the December meeting.
On capital and payments, engineer Jeffrey Thoms (SSM) reported concrete delamination in two bays of the salt shed addition requiring repairs beyond the $10,000 allowance; Change Order No. 1 increases the contract by $8,277 to a new contract price of $376,677. The board approved the change order. Thoms also recommended Payment Application No. 1 to Kite and Key Electric for $11,503.80 and Application for Payment No. 2 (final) to Jurich, Inc. for $8,555.90 for Lodal Creek Park; the board approved those payments.
Manager Daniel presented a two-year traffic-signal maintenance contract renewal with Signal Service, Inc. at a base annual preventive-maintenance price of $2,375 and on-call services at current labor and equipment rates; the board approved the renewal. The board accepted resignations from Planning Commission members Stuart Ozer (term through Dec. 2025) and Christopher Thomas (term through Dec. 2027; moved out of township).
Board action and next steps: the board authorized advertisement of the proposed budget and approved the listed change order, payments and contracts. The solicitor was authorized to draft an ordinance implementing the supervisor-compensation increase authorized by Act 94 of 2024; the manager and solicitor will proceed with contract execution and budget-advertising steps prior to the December meeting.
