Reading news

Reading City Council introduces a Nov. 9 ordinance raising ambulance fees up to 55% in 2027, votes on a $2.5M CDBG plan and eyes the Centre Avenue Bridge.

Reading School directors voted 5-4 against a two-year travel pause after the $95,000 item was pulled, created 10 safety jobs and lost their acting CFO.

Reading City Council hears the public on its $129.3M budget at 5 p.m. Oct. 28, then reviews a $2.5M CDBG plan with $500,000 for a New Journey day shelter.

Reading School District directors vote tonight on a $95,000 travel budget, a $694,545-a-year TransPar busing manager and Dr. April Rostek’s contract.

Reading City Council votes Oct. 26 on the $413.87 trash fee and a four-year AFSCME supervisors' deal with 3.5% raises; the budget hearing is Oct. 28.

Reading School District directors weigh a $695K-a-year TransPar transportation-management deal, a $917,000 solar grant ask and $5.1M in building bills.

Berks County's Election Board votes Oct. 15 on an emergency move of Reading Ward 12-3's polling place, from the Olivet club to 10th & Green Elementary.

The minutes Reading posted for its Oct. 12 council meeting match the Sept. 28 agenda, leaving the $4.5M sewer transfer and trash fee votes unrecorded.

Reading City Council gets an ordinance Oct. 12 raising the 2027 trash, recycling and clean-city fee from $395.91 to $413.87 a year per unit.

Reading's $129.3M draft 2027 budget keeps the city tax rate at 19.217 mills and plans a $12.4 million reserve draw as benefit and pension costs rise.

The Berks County Election Board is scheduled to vote Oct. 8 on moving polling places in Reading's Ward 12-3 and Shoemakersville for the general election.

The Reading School District board approved about $3.65 million in contracts on Sept. 23 to renovate the Southern Middle School auditorium.

Reading School District board is set to vote Sept. 23 on four contracts totaling about $3.65 million to renovate the Southern Middle School auditorium.

Reading City Council meets Sept. 21 to create a HUD-funded lead and healthy-homes staff position and record a $200,000 housing grant already in hand.

Reading City Council enacted a vacant-property registry Aug. 24 with semiannual fees up to $5,000, and extended its commercial LERTA tax break 10 years.

A running tracker of Berks County data centers: what is operating now, the one big AI campus proposed, and which towns have zoning rules.

The county and City of Reading say fraudulent emails using real employee names and logos are targeting Berks businesses to get financial information.

The Reading School District board votes Aug. 26 on a three-year contract for its food-service workers, with an hourly raise and new starting wages.

Reading is weighing a vacant-property registry with semiannual fees that climb to $5,000 for the buildings left empty and neglected the longest.

Reading City Council voted July 13 to declare its zoning code invalid on data centers, starting a 180-day pause on applications while it writes rules.