Rush holds the line on tax rate

Rush Township residents won’t have to allocate any extra money toward their municipal tax rate next year.

On a 2-0 vote, the township’s board of supervisors on Thursday agreed to adopt the 2018 budget with no tax increase. Supervisor Jeaninne Motroni was absent.

The spending plan will leave the millage rate unchanged at 5.62 mills, and calls for no sewer increase or garbage increase.

In December, supervisors adopted this year’s budget with no increase in the millage rate.

However, sewer fees increased by $6 per quarter for Hometown residents, and by $4 per quarter for Lake Hauto residents as a result of an increase the township has to pay.

That raised Hometown’s sewer rate to $178, and Lake Hauto’s to $144.

There were no other increases associated with this year’s budget.

— Terry Ahner