Bloomingdale Budget Meetings Invite Public to Ask Questions

The Borough of Bloomingdale will be hosting two meetings for the public to come and ask questions on the 2013 municipal budget in the next several weeks.

The meetings will be held on May 30 at 8 p.m. and on June 6 at 7:30 p.m., both in the council chambers of the borough municipal building on Hamburg Turnpike.

The Bloomingdale Council voted to introduce its 2013 municipal budget on April 23. As proposed, taxes would increase by about $66.40 for the average home in Bloomingdale assessed at $254,046. The budget that was introduced is approximately $11,000 under the state-mandated 2 percent spending increase cap.

Councilman Ray Yazdi, the council's Budget Committee chairman, promised the public during the April budget introduction that taxpayers would have an opportunity to speak to the budget and ask questions of the council as related to proposed expenses and revenue lines. In addition to the two scheduled budget meetings, the council will have a public hearing on the budget on June 11 before voting on its final adoption.

The entire introduced budget can be see on the borough website here.