At the regulary scheduled meeting of Council on Wednesday, December 11th, Jenkintown Borough Council voted to approve the 2025 Budget which can be found by clicking here. The 2025 budget includes further preservation of public property, upgrading of equipment, PD vehicle replacement, upgrades to Borough Hall, Financial and Code Enforcement software, IT technology, training, staffing, benefit and wage improvements. As supported by two separate independent studies there will be a reduction in PD staffing in 2025. Due to a retirement announced effective February 2025, there will be a two-position reduction in PD staff in the budget.
There is no tax millage increase to taxpayers in the 2025 budget. There is an increase in the sewer rental fees that was originally approved in 2023, but the planned implementation did not occur in 2024. The circumstances are detailed in the Manger’s 2025 budget statement. I would like to thank the Department Heads, Borough Councilors and the Public that attended the public meetings and worked so hard to make this process a success.
Due to the observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday, the Borough’s curbside trash and recycling collection will be delayed one day and will be collected on Saturday, November 30th, 2024.
Jenkintown Borough’s application requested funding for 300 lidded, wheeled, 35-gallon recycling toters. The Borough was responsible for the 10% grant match in the amount of $1,442, however a slight increase of $139 brought the borough’s grand total to $1,581.
The borough’s Environmental Advisory Committee conducted a community-wide survey and compiled a list of addresses that need another recycling toter. The survey revealed that some of the larger homes require more than one recycling toter. There were some that were damaged and need replaced and when new residents move into the Borough in most cases a recycling toter is requested by the new resident.
‘We were happy to be awarded the grant,’ said Borough Manager George Locke.”
“The Philadelphia region is home to many incredible suburbs. Slacker recently ranked the top 25 best suburbs of Philadelphia, according to MSN. Slacker used data collected by Niche, a company that analyzes data about neighborhoods and school districts and found the best places to live in the area. Unsurprisingly, Montgomery towns make the list ten times.”
Jenkintown was named #8 on MSN’s list. See the others here.
The Department of Community & Economic Development (DCED) ‘Police Cost to Benefit Analysis’ performed at the Borough’s request is available here.
The scope of this project was to complete a cost-to-benefit analysis of Jenkintown’s police operations, and police staffing needs. To achieve this goal, the methodology employed the use of financial data to perform comparative analysis between Jenkintown and communities with similar demographics in the Philadelphia Region and Montgomery County.
