Lancaster Township’s proposed 2022 budget includes both a nearly 16% revenue increase and a projected deficit.

The $1.7 million budget, which supervisors will consider during a Dec. 6 special meeting, expects Lancaster will receive $1.5 million in revenue — a 15.9% increase from the budgeted 2021 revenue — but will outspend its revenue by more than $211,000.

C. Michael Foote, township manager, said the projected operational deficit stems in part from funds Lancaster has allotted to improve levels of township service, but not necessarily dollars it will expend.

These allocated funds include money for professional services to handle zoning and land development; the addition of a fourth public works employee; and the shifting of police services by adding one full-time officer and reducing part-time employment to four officers.

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