SLIPPERY ROCK — Right now, the early version of the 2014 borough budget is balanced.

Councilman Jerry Heller on Tuesday presented a $1.1 million draft budget with no tax increase.

He said that both revenues and expenditures are expected to decrease next year.

Heller said that some of the potential expenditures that council had discussed in the past that were eliminated from the draft include $30,000 for part-time police officers, $6,000 for part-time clerical help, and $4,000 for a second street cleaning in the fall.

One of the places that Heller saw revenue decreasing came from the borough’s solid waste service fee, which is proposed to decrease from $42,588 this year to $21,294 next year.

He said he cut it in half because a number of residents have complained about it. In October, the borough’s solid waste committee recommended using half of that fee to pay for changing the borough’s bulk trash date.

Heller said that money could be made up with a one-mill property tax increase. A mill generates $1 in tax for every $1,000 of a property’s assessed value.

“That’s one option,” Heller said.

Council will discuss the budget next Tuesday and will vote Nov. 19 to advertise it for public review. Council will vote to pass the final budget in December.

The current budget is $1.2 million with a tax rate of 21.875 mills.