Author name: Brian Brock

Townspeople complain that we are paying too much in taxes.  Adding together the taxes on your property going to county, town, school district, and fire district, we pay at the second highest rate in the county. Landowners in the village or hamlet pay even more.

THE BACKSTORY: A year and a half ago, the Town of Franklin received almost $198,000 under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Our share of the $350 billion State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds amounts to more than a tenth of our entire annual budget. Since then, our board has not made use of

Due to the cancellation of the Constitution Pipeline project last February, the now-excess inventory of pipe is available for purchase

By Brian Brock The tentative 2021 budget for the Town of Franklin would spend $1.80 million. To partially finance this, the town board plans to raise $1.23 million in property taxes from landowners, an increase of $ 0.017 million (1.38%) over the 2020 budget. This increase in the levy would be just under the state-imposed

By Brian Brock The Town of Franklin could use more office space, and our town board has tried for three years to build some. The issue that sparked this search for office space lay in the lease from 2000 that gave the town half of the Rich tenant house to use for 50 years. With

Last year, the Franklin town government spent $1.72 million. Most of that came from property taxes (66 percent) and state aid (27 percent). Where did this all go, and how did this spending compare to similar towns? Financially, the nineteen towns in Delaware County fall naturally into four groups. In 2018, the two smallest towns

This year, the option of phone, video, and internet via fiber-optic cable is coming to many in Franklin as an alternative to the existing service via copper-wire cable. Long-time provider, Frontier Communications Corporation, has been the bane of local businesses and homeowners with its slow data transmission rates and poor service. All last year, the