County Cuts Threaten Pottstown Programs
Many folks at Wednesday's Montgomery County budget hearing supported a tax increase to cover a money shortfall.
If the program-slashing preliminary budget the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners posted last week was intended to elicit a reaction from the public, it seems to have worked. Residents packed a county courtroom in Norristown on Wednesday for a public hearing on the budget, some waiting in line for up to three hours to speak to commissioners Joe Hoeffel and Bruce Castor on the importance of the county parks department, library system, Montgomery County Community College, and other institutions threatened by funding cuts in the proposed $384.4 million operating budget. Having already moved the Board of Commissioners meeting to the courthouse from its usual venue in the eighth floor boardroom of One Montgomery Plaza in Norristown, …
Dene Liott
7:43 am on Thursday, December 8, 2011
Good coverage, thank you. more ›