SLIPPERY ROCK — Property taxes in the borough will stay the same in 2014.

Borough council on Tuesday voted 5-0, with councilmen Ron Steele and Itzi Meztli absent, to approve the $1.1 million budget.

The budget has a property tax rate of 21.875 mills, with 18.71 mills for general purposes, 2 mills for street lighting and 1.165 mills for fire protection.

A mill generates $1 tax for every $1,000 of a property’s assessed value.

The budget includes two new part-time workers, one for the streets department and one to do accounting; two new part-time police officers; and money to improve the borough’s website.

To pay for the new items, council chose to pay for a new police cruiser using savings rather than taking out a loan and chose to keep the solid waste service fee at $3 a month rather than cut it to $1.50.

This year’s budget is $1.2 million with the same tax rate.