WOODLAND – If a new ordinance is approved in Bradford Township next month, people who work there will have to dig a bit deeper into their pockets.
The Bradford Township Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday night to approve advertising an ordinance that would allow the township to collect an Emergency and Municipal Services tax from anyone who earns $1,000 or more in a year. The municipality expects to bring in $125,000 through the collection of the tax.
The $52 tax will be used for construction and/or maintenance of township roads.
If approved at the supervisors’ Aug. 1 meeting, the tax would go into effect Jan. 1, 2006, and the monies would need to be taken from employees’ checks all at once. Anyone who has already paid the $10 tax — formerly the Occupational Privilege Tax — would pay $42 this year.
The ordinance will now be advertised in newspapers for three weeks and can be voted on next month.
The supervisors also heard at their meeting that the Bigler-Jackson-Woodland Fire Co. put their new engine into use. The equipment came as a donation from York after the company placed first in a contest to win the 1988 engine.
The supervisors learned that the engine took second place for best-equipped engine behind Hyde’s 2004 engine.