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Briefly Brentwood
“I've learned that people will forget what yo
will never forget how you made them feel.”
BOROUGH NEWS
2018 Fiscal Year Overall Budget Su
Borough
Manager’s
Message
OFFICIALS OF THE
BOROUGH OF
BRENTWOOD 2018
MAYOR
DENNIS TROY
MEMBERS OF COUNCIL
HAROLD SMITH, President
JOHN FROMBACH,
Vice President
A.J. DOYLE, Pro Tem
RICH SCHUBERT
PASQUALE CARNEVALE
ROBERT PASQUANTONIO
JENNIFER GEORGE
SOLICITOR
GAVIN ROBB
BOROUGH MANAGER
GEORGE ZBOYOVSKY, P.E.
Dennis Troy Harold Smith
John
Frombach AJ Doyle
VICE PRESIDENT PRESIDENT
PRO TEM
Pat
Carnevale Jennifer
George
Robert
Pasquantonio Rich
Schubert
MAYOR
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PRESIDENT
BRENTWOOD-BALDWIN-WHITEHALL
The Borough’s 2018 Operating Budget
Regular Borough Council meeting. A s
following fund accounts:
George Zboyovsky, PE
Total 2018 General Fund
“If the current
is right,
Total 2018 Sanitary
Sewer Fund one can drift
Total 2018 Park
Expenditures —Mason Cooley
to Fund success.”
Total 2018 Capital Improvement Fund
$9,1
$5,5
$154
$2,2
Municipal
Building
Fund members
$1,2
Continued from the last edition… Total 2018
blessed
with
great council
When we last left off Michelle (aka Total 2018
and
mayors
Highway
Aid over
Fund these years. Believe
$ 24
Bird) and I had gotten married and found me, I’ve seen firsthand how a bad board
$18,
our dream home here in Brentwood.
can paralyze a community. There have
I was working for a United States
been so many these past 10 years and
Congressman at the time but when I Minus Interfund
each and
every (From
one of
Transfers
the them
GF) deserves the
1,40
received a call from a friend informing
credit
for
what
has
been
accomplished.
Minus Interfund Transfers (From the Sanitary Sewer Fund)
505,
me that Brentwood Borough was looking The Borough council’s job is to plan and
for a Borough Manager I knew that it
set the course for the direction of the
TOTAL 2018
BOROUGH
$ 16,
“was meant to be.” Sure it was a difficult
Borough
and
then turn EXPENDITURES
it over to its “crew”
decision leaving the Congressman
(Borough staff ). They then ensure we
and doing work on a federal level.
stay on course by reviewing the progress
If you would like to read the entire Borough Budget, it is once again av
However, I realized that the best form of
and goals every year. When I started my
www.brentwoodboro.com.
government, the form that has the most
position Brentwood was nearly 100 years
and direct impact on all of us, is local General Fund
old and
was definitely showing her age.
Revenues
government. Think about it, how often
The most visible wear and tear where its
approach was infrastructure.
utilized when preparing
the 2018 Budget by u
do you see your local congressman? A realistic deteriorating
There was
How often do you get to Washington overestimating
DC no clear
road paving
in place.
expenses.
In an program
effort to enhance
our residents’ quality
to address congress during the “public
Remember
the
old
football
field
and
growth, the Borough will continue to invest in public works, streets, pu
comment period” of a congressional
track? The basketball courts were literally
sewer infrastructure, parks and recreational facilities. The property tax
session? Local government impacts our
cracking apart. I do not believe it was
equates to the that
following
lives each and every day. If we have a tax. This a is coincidence
a Civil dedicated
Engineer milage:
was
problem with any of these services or
hired as Borough Manager as there was
issues we do not have to write letters Pool
a lot of planning and building required. 0.33 Mils
to our congressman and wait weeks Public
for Safety
Working with Council we immediately
5.56 Mils
a reply, we can attend a local council
drafted up plans to correct all of these
Capital Improvements
1.72 Mils
meeting and address our concerns. Yes,
deficiencies as well as plans on how
1.84 Mils
local government impacts us all daily Debt Service
to fund these million dollar projects.
Library
0.50
Mils
and is the most accessible. I am grateful
Planning does take time but it is critical.
for working in a profession that permits
I have a favorite quote from President
me to utilize my training and skills to
Abraham Lincoln. He said, “Give me six
help improve the community in which I
hours to chop down a tree and I will
live. I was informed that the interviews
spend the first four sharpening the
for Borough Manager came down to
axe.” Planning is so important; hence
me and someone with 20 plus years of
the Borough received a grant to have
experience. I was later informed that the
prepared the Park Master Development
fact I was a resident of Brentwood gave
Plan. The plan laid out the future of the
me the edge over the competition. So, on park. It was prepared by a consultant
January 2, 2008 I immediately rolled up
in conjunction with Borough staff,
my sleeve and got to work.
Borough Council, and the Brentwood
There was a lot of work to get done
Park Initiative. With the document in
without a doubt. We have all been
hand we were then able to pursue