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Blakely council adopts $12.98 million 2026 budget
Summary
On Dec. 15, 2025 the Blakely Borough Council approved a 2026 budget totaling $12,975,603 in revenues and expenditures, covering municipal services, public safety, electric system expenses and other allocations.
Blakely Borough Council approved its 2026 municipal budget on Dec. 15, 2025 after Controller Carlo Celli read the revenue and expenditure lines. The council voted to adopt a balanced budget showing total revenues and expenditures of $12,975,603.
Key 2026 line items read into the record by Controller Carlo Celli included: Taxes — $1,170,476; Public Safety — $1,775,009; Sanitation — $620,400; Highways, Roads & Streets — $1,220,141; Electric system expense (Other/Electric Co. Expense) — $4,066,876. The council approved the budget on a motion by Kevin Swift, seconded by Edward J. Alco Jr.; the motion carried by voice vote ('all ayes').
Why it matters: the budget allocates funding across municipal functions for 2026 and sets the fiscal framework that will guide staffing, maintenance, contracts and capital projects. The budget was presented as balanced, with equal totals for revenue and expenditures.
The council also approved routine financial housekeeping earlier in the meeting — including the appointment of People's Security Bank and Trust as the borough depository — as part of the slate of organizational resolutions for 2026.
