“…it is our recommendation that the City of Harrisburg be declared financially distressed”-Governor’s Center for Local Government Services, Consultative Evaluation for the City of
A press release from the state’s Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) yesterday ended the suspense about the status of Pennsylvania’s capital city
A recent opinion piece in the Harrisburg Patriot News states “Harrisburg needs to have financial options to raise revenue. One of those options, despite
The recent addition of Ms. Dugan to the Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority (known as the oversight board) was a tremendously positive step for the Governor
That’s true in the case of cities of the third class, a municipal classification that differentiates cities from those of the first class (Philly),
After presenting the 2012 budget to Council, the Mayor raised the idea that the City is ready to be released from state oversight. Now
Elected and appointed officials in the field of economic development are often long on the benefits of proposed spending to stimulate growth but very
The City of Altoona, population just over 46,000, has been declared financially distressed by the state under the terms of Act 47 of 1987.
Last October we wrote in a blog about the Supreme Court decision that said an “arbitration award” was not the same thing as an
Earlier this week the Board of Commissioners in Washington County, a county where a reassessment has not been conducted since 1981 (their base year,
