Butler City Council agreed to consider a $9.1-million budget that doesn’t include a tax increase, but contains revenue from a $5 increase in monthly parking permits at Thursday’s meeting.

At Tuesday’s forum meeting, council agreed to place the 2019 budget, tax ordinance, salary ordinance and a $1 million tax revenue anticipation loan on the agenda of Thursday’s regular meeting.

The preliminary $9.158 million budget is slightly more than this year’s $9.153 million budget and maintains the current real estate tax rate of 43.25 mills. But the proposed budget includes revenue from raising the parking permit fees.

Mayor Ben Smith said the higher permit fees won’t necessarily be adopted.

A $5 parking permit fee increase was proposed for this year, but it wasn’t included in the final budget, Smith said.

The permit fees are part of the fee schedule that council adopts in January after the budget is adopted, he said.

At a budget review meeting last week, council members said the permit fee increase would generate an additional $40,000 in revenue for the parking fund and the money would be used to replace the sidewalk around the Tier garage and fund improvements to other parking facilities.

The current fees range from $60 per month for garage permits to $25 per month for parking lot permits.

Thursday’s meeting agenda will include a motion for the second reading and adoption of an ordinance to borrow $1.85 million from the Butler County Infrastructure Bank for the Sullivan Run flood control project and upgrading streetlights on Main Street.

A representative from the county’s bond counsel told council Tuesday that the county has agreed to borrow money for the infrastructure bank, but hasn’t selected a bank. The county’s interest rate will be about 3.5 percent, but the city’s interest rate will be about 2 percent.

The attorney said the city does not have to use the entire $1.85 million.

In unrelated business, council agreed to vote Thursday on awarding a $96,000 contract with Wiest Asphalt Products and Paving Inc. for asphalt and a $79,150 contract with Allegheny Mineral Corporation for limestone materials for street paving projects next year.