The Abington Township 2026 Budget

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   PROPOSED 2026 VOTE TO ADVERTIZE THE BUDGET  11-13-25  7PM
  

   

  LOTS OF TOM FOOLERY IN THIS BUDGET   LIKE IN THE BUDGETS PAST:

---  DOCUMENTS ARE AGAIN WITHHELD  EACH OCTOBER - so we miss the entire first meeting as an opportunity to get answers. understand confusing concepts ( which they seem to confuse on purpose

--- the continued use of the "open -gov" format that cannot be "skimmed"   and cannot be archived 

More coming about htis budget . One resident was kind enough, on her own time to make more easily viewable formatting - like we are asking hte Township to make - But I won't be able to post them before htis meeting ---

   WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEBACLE THAT OUR BUDGET PROCESS HAS BECOME? 

Manager Richard Manfredi arrived in may of 2017 --  The 2018 budget was already underway -- but the 2019 budget was his first great work of stolen transparency. All of his actions have been supported by Tom Hecker and Matt Vahey who have taken over the Board.

In 2019 he planned out a 30% tax increase - an outrageous amount - far, far higher than any  we had ever received in Abington -- EVER. He planned the first third as a "test" in 2020 -- and when he saw that no one really got too upset with that - he planned to continue with part 2 . 

But Covid hit us in 2020 -- and he held off part 2 until 2021 --- when we got  the 2nd 20% increase, it was a  27 % increase in our taxes . Add that to the nearly 10% we just had and altogether you have a tax hike that is just a little under 40% over a 3 year period.  Insane. It allowed Manfredi more than 3 million dollars over what any of his predecessors were working with .   And still the wants and needs of the residents are being ignored, some even kept in grave danger, while developers are welcomed with open arms.

The way wealth is transferred is on full display in Abington Township. That hurts America - and all Abington residents and taxpayers.

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Abington Township revamped the entire Township website at the end of 2015 and broke all the links to the information. In 2017, under Richard Manfredi, someone inexperienced was assigned to redo the entire website again. The public was not asked what problems they would like to see fixed. Their new plan was not well thought out, so everything was very hard to find and there were giant paragraphs you had to slog through in order to find the pertinent one or two lines that you needed. Or if you were lucky enough to even find the meetings and agenda page, there was (and still is) a whole page of nonsense on top, so you think you're on the wrong page. Zoom limks are burrid in a giant paragraph, so people can't find them to attend the meeting. They know about these  problems - but have just decided to ignore us.... for the whole of Richard Manfredi's time here (with Tom Hecker's consent).

 Now, in 2025, we are due to get a new Manager, and there are funds put aside to, once again, upgrade the Township website. We can only hope for a fresh chance at fixing some of these things, as our Township website is the best tool we have for communication and should be an easy, user friendly site for all.

We need volunteers willing to work together to help improve the Township site that everyone has to use,  to make it functional and accessible. 

 We will be repairing our broken links in this Abington Citizens site, too, and fixing some of our many, many typo's as much as is possible. (Yes, it's quite evident that, unlike the Township, WE don't have a paid staff of 275+ or a $93 million budget).

 So...please let us know if you find broken links or typos. Send us the URL and/or and the name of the page it is on, so we can correct it.
Thanks for the help.

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