Southampton Township reviews preliminary 2018 budget and five-year plan at workshop

Southampton Township Committee met on April 2, 2018, at the Robert L. Thompson Building for a budget workshop during which Committeeman Heston reviewed preliminary appropriation budget request figures prepared with the township certified municipal finance officer.

Mayor James F. Young, Sr. opened the meeting at 6:30 p.m. and turned the session over to Committeeman Heston, who led the committee through a discussion of preliminary appropriation requests, revenue, surplus and the township's five-year plan. Nancy Gower, identified in the minutes as CMFO, is listed as having prepared the figures with township staff; the minutes do not record specific dollar amounts or line-item detail.

The workshop format is advisory: committee members and finance staff reviewed assumptions and priorities to inform the formal budget process. Attending committee members were Committeewoman Rossell, Committeeman Heston, Committeeman Mikulski, Deputy Mayor Raftery and Mayor Young. Kathleen D. Hoffman, RMC, and Nancy Gower, CMFO, are listed as municipal officials present.

No formal budget adoption or vote is recorded in the minutes. The record notes that the budget discussion and the five-year plan review took place during the workshop but does not specify resulting changes to appropriation totals, revenue projections, or tax-rate impacts.