Watsontown proposes $2 million budget; taxes and electric rates steady for now

Watsontown Borough Council approved advertising a proposed 2027 budget of about $2 million for public examination, roughly $100,000 above the 2026 budget, the Standard Journal reported. The budget remains a proposal, not an adopted spending plan.

The roughly $100,000 increase is in planned borough spending, not in a proposed tax or electric-rate change. For Watsontown taxpayers and borough electric customers, the proposed budget includes no property-tax increase or electric-rate change at this stage, Borough Manager Jay Jarrett said. Those terms remain subject to final council action.

Subtracting the approximate $100,000 increase from the roughly $2 million proposal implies a 2026 budget of about $1.9 million. Because both figures are rounded, $1.9 million is an estimate, not the exact prior-year total.

Jarrett said final adoption was expected at the Dec. 14, 2026, council meeting.