The members of the Evesham Township Council will vote to accept or deny the final adoption of the 2012 municipal budget.
The council approved the introduction of the $32.9 million budget in late May. The budget contains a flat municipal tax rate of a little more than 39-cents per every $100 of assessed property value. For the average assessed home in the township of $271,800, this would be a decrease of about $3 from the 2011 municipal tax bill.
When Mayor Randy Brown came to the council, he said the budget depended on $3 million in deferred taxes to keep the rate low. Now the budget has zero dollars in school tax deferrals. Depending on school tax deferrals is what gets municipalities in trouble in the long run, he said.
Brown reminded taxpayers that the last time the township raised the tax increase was two years ago when the township suffered through 160-inches of snow during a winter.
“We didn’t get a fair amount of money from FEMA or the state. If we had gotten the proper amount we never would have had to raise the tax rate,” Brown said.
The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the municipal building at 984 Tuckerton Road in the township.
