2 key issues coming in 2013 should be up for discussion at
this month’s Borough Council Workshop and Council meetings.
First, the 2013 Budget will likely be approved, although no
one knows if it includes a tax hike or not. Other municipalities seem to put their budget out and give
their residents a month or more to review it or make comments.
Eddystone tends to give its residents 6 days.
So, if you have a comment, you better make it to Monday’s
meeting. Otherwise, the final
budget will be adopted at the regular monthly meeting without your input.
The second issue facing Eddystone is directly related to the
chemical disaster currently going on in New Jersey. Communities in New jersey are being evacuated because a train carrying
toxic chemicals derailed on a bridge, the second such derailment that has occurred
in the last few years at this exact bridge.This connects to Eddystone as a result
of Exelon’s announcement earlier this week that the company will be reengineering part
of its facility in order to transport, by rail, massive amounts of oil in and
out of its facility. This
multi-million dollar project should bring revenue into the Borough, given the
permitting and inspections fees it will pay, as well as earned income tax
potential. Given the time between
now and the project’s start date, the Borough has plenty of time to properly
inspect, or request the inspection of, the facility to ensure we will not be
dealing with the issues residents in New jersey are facing.
Monday’s Workshop meeting would be the time to discuss these
issues. 7PM at Borough Hall.