WEST DECATUR – The citizens of Boggs Township will not see a tax increase in 2007, as the supervisors voted to approve next year’s budget Monday night in a 3-0 vote. The millage remains at 5.5.
The supervisors also opted to hire a certified public accountant to review the 2006 books.
That move came in response to at least two letters submitted to the supervisors and included in the correspondence portion for the meeting.
In each of those two letters, residents asked about specifics including supervisors’ and the secretary’s wages, employee taxes and other expenditures.
After the meeting adjourned, words were exchanged between one resident and another and at least one resident and the supervisors before they left the building.
During the public comment portion of the meeting, Rod Beard, attorney for PA Waste LLC, stated that he was not at an alleged meeting of the township supervisors at a Philipsburg establishment after the November meeting.
“Although I would have no opposition,” Beard said, about attending an event with the supervisors. He said he wanted the record to reflect allegations that had been circulating in the community.
When asked by Boggs Township Frank Norris whether Beard attended a get-together with the supervisors after the October meeting, Beard replied, “Yes.”
The incidents were the latest in a township that has been the proposed site of a new landfill (the Camp Hope Run Landfill) to be built by PA Waste.
In the past, the township has had a constable present at meetings due to fights and arguments that erupted.
The Boggs Township Supervisors will next meet Jan. 8 at 7 p.m.