On Allegheny County Council’s agenda for tomorrow evening is a presentation of the 2018 fiscal plan and operating budget. In the County’s Home Rule Charter
Emerging from the budget impasse talks this week–albeit briefly as the idea is now apparently dead–was a proposal to raise the hotel tax levied by
The Auditor General’s office announced today that $289 million in municipal pension aid was distributed on October 1st to 1,479 municipalities and regional affiliations (multi-municipal
Almost twenty years after voters approved of a ballot question authorizing homestead exemptions in Pennsylvania there will be a question next month about expanding the
In an article today describing the state’s transition to a shorter time period for administering the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) there was passage
We’ve written a few times about the City’s newest department of Mobility and Infrastructure (created in 2017, here and here) and how it overlapped and
Today marks the one year anniversary of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision on the local share assessment (host fee) that casinos pay to the county
Earlier this summer we wrote about the concern municipal officials in the communities comprising the Woodland Hills School District had with the state of the
The Mayor of Pittsburgh submitted the 2018 operating and capital budgets and five year forecast to the Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority (oversight board) on Friday to
Monday’s Brief noted a proposal to take $50 million from the Public Transportation Trust Fund (PTTF) to move it, along with other special fund surpluses,
