Meeting coverage

Wyomissing's interim manager offers five 2027 budget scenarios and recommends two: 3 or 4 more mills plus borrowing. Council reconvenes Nov. 3 at 7 p.m.

Ruscombmanor supervisors meet Oct. 28 on a $199,834.81 tractor-and-mower quote, a proposed Nov. 25 data center hearing, sewer liens and the 2027 budget.

Amity Township's Nov. 18 hearing on new sign rules: four temporary signs per lot, 90 days up and 14 down, and brightness limits for electronic signs.

Colebrookdale and Boyertown hold Nov. 2 hearings on a joint zoning amendment allowing data centers by special exception in Colebrookdale's GI/Q zone.

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 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.

Kutztown unanimously adopted data center and short-term rental rules Sept. 15, seated Patricia Snyder and dropped the 2027 per-capita tax, minutes show.

Berks County votes Oct. 29 on $7.2M in Ag Center Phase 2 contracts, a $1.14M PennDOT grant bid for the Reading Gateway Bridge and a jail study transfer.

Berks County's CFO presents a 2027-2031 capital plan at a 9:30 a.m. workshop; draft minutes show a $350K severe-weather homelessness ask that got no vote.

Boyertown's school board is set to vote on a $77,250 design contract for six modular classrooms, the first step in a $2 million full-day kindergarten plan

Amity Township's proposed 2027 budget would raise the EMS tax from .275 to .331 mills; a typical home's sewer bill rises to $236 a quarter on Jan. 1.

Caernarvon's draft 2027 budget runs $264,680 short even after reserves, and supervisors split 3-2 to extend the blight ordinance to occupied homes.

Boyertown's school board voted 5-4 to make the Middle School East planetarium a Learning Dome: $379,500 to $467,635 to build, $112,500 a year to run.

Antietam's board votes Monday on moving high school principal Felice Stern to assistant superintendent at $152,495.62 a year, and a $79,500 placement.

Spring Township supervisors return to a PennDOT agreement for the $350M Broadcast District, award a winter maintenance bid and seek gaming grants Oct. 26.

Exeter supervisors decide Monday whether to back a parking variance for 236 apartments at 3925 Perkiomen Ave. and weigh $95-an-hour finance help.

A new Boyertown water plant is estimated at $17,663,437.50, minutes show. PennVEST loans would mean $1.03M a year in debt and gradual utility rate hikes.

Hamburg council votes Oct. 27 on suspending its $1,000-a-machine skill game license law, no reason given on the agenda, plus a police union grievance.

Birdsboro council took Mountz's $415,000 recycling bid, lowest of three, and voted 5-0 to send a letter opposing New Morgan's data-center overlay.

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.