From the Times-News:

The Jim Thorpe Borough Council, at a regularly scheduled meeting Thursday night, adopted its 2011 budget.

The budget was originally expected to see a 1 mill property tax increase, but Borough Manager Wes Johnson challenged himself over the last month to whittle expenses down to a more palatable level for taxpayers.

The result is a very tight budget that requires only half a mill increase and produces a $71 surplus in place of a possible $128,000 shortfall, in part due to the expected revenues of the newly adopted amusement, occupational, and local services taxes.

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