BAWG Report
Fifty-five people attended the Tredyffrin Township’s Budget Advisory Working Group (BAWG) meeting last night. The BAWG sought input from Tredyffrinites as to their preferences for containing the budget problem. So, after a brief overview of some BAWG activity, and collection of the Tredyffrin Community Survey, the mike was turned over to residents for comment.
Ideas from Residents
- Against tax increase
- Placing the library in the high priority section with police and fire departments.
- Against earned income tax (EIT) [3 people], and questions surrounding its definition
- Prioritizing government services, then reducing or removing lowest priorities
- Ending the leaf recycling program, another recommended homeowners recycle their own leaves.
- Doing a financial threat analysis to plan for financial collapses
- Pooling of school district and township resources
- Find cost saving ideas like not printing brochures, ending leaf composting
- Modernizing health benefits, possibly adding flexible spending accounts. Lower the health care premiums by making deductibles higher.
- Waiting on doing capital projects.
- A request for township lists of its resources
- A request for the TESB budget exercises which were very similar to this.
- A request for criterion used in making decisions about the budget: Who would be affected? How much money would be saved? What percent of the budget does it represent?
Please send your email comments to BAWG directly at: tredyffrinbawg@gmail.com. They earnestly seek our input, and if you visit their website, you may sign up for their updates.
