County Plans Series Of Budget Meetings
Montco Commissioner Joseph Hoeffel said meetings will be held weeknights and weekends if necessary to finalize the county's 2012 operating budget.
The clock is ticking for Montgomery County to finalize its 2012 operating budget and the county government will hold a series of public meetings over the next two weeks to achieve that goal, County Commissioner Joseph Hoeffel said this morning. Hoeffel said a county tax increase is likely to figure prominently in the discussions after commissioners received more than 4,000 public comments objecting to massive program cuts in the preliminary budget announced Nov. 30. "We had 300 people in a public meeting who stood up and asked us to raise their taxes," Hoeffel said, referring to last week's public hearing on the budget. Public meetings will be held in the 8th floor boardroom at One Montgomery Plaza in Norristown at 10 a.m. Tuesday, …
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Dene Liott
7:43 am on Thursday, December 8, 2011
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