{"id":11849,"date":"2025-10-22T23:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11849\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T23:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:14:07","slug":"scrantons-2026-operating-budget-set-to-not-include-tax-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11849\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton\u2019s 2026 operating budget set to not include tax hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Good news for Scranton taxpayers: The city\u2019s 2026 operating budget will not include a tax hike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mayor Paige Cognetti announced the plan this week, saying strong fiscal management has allowed Scranton to hold tax rates steady for another year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/snap-recipients-receiving-scam-calls-195056229.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:SNAP recipients receiving scam calls for information;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> SNAP recipients receiving scam calls for information <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This marks the fourth time since 2021 the city has kept taxes flat.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">City council will review the proposed budget by December 1, before adoption could happen by the middle of the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Good news for Scranton taxpayers: The city\u2019s 2026 operating budget will not include&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,7972,2497,178,180,179,9346],"class_list":{"0":"post-11849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-lackawanna-county","9":"tag-operating-budget","10":"tag-paige-cognetti","11":"tag-scranton","12":"tag-scranton-headlines","13":"tag-scranton-news","14":"tag-tax-hike"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}