Borough supplemental budget passes second reading

The Petersburg Borough Assembly voted 6-1 to approve an ordinance adjusting the borough's FY23 budget in its second reading during Monday's meeting with Assembly Member Thomas Fine-Walsh opposed.

The assembly unanimously approved of two amendments during the second reading of Ordinance #2022-15.

The first, proposed by Assembly Member Bob Lynn, would create a new special revenue fund to account for $1,006,800 million allocated to the borough in new American Rescue Plan Act funding.

Finance Director Jody Tow called the funding "pretty exciting" and explained that this batch of ARPA funding does...