{"id":25570,"date":"2025-11-05T13:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25570\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:42:06","slug":"election-2025-philadelphia-suburbs-vote-on-policing-open-space-ballot-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25570\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2025: Philadelphia suburbs vote on policing, open space ballot questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montgomery County<\/p>\n

In Montgomery County, voters in Upper Frederick and Upper Providence townships faced questions about tax increases to fund open space benefits and other environmental improvements.\n<\/p>\n

In Upper Frederick Township, voters approved a .04% increase in earned income tax<\/a> to fund the purchase of additional open space, maintain and improve existing open space benefits, and expand existing parks, among other activities.\n<\/p>\n

Voters in Upper Providence Township rejected a .06% increase in earned income tax<\/a> and an increase of $0.50 per $1,000 assessed valuation in real property tax to fund township activities, including trail expansion, flood damage mitigation, the preservation of clean water and wildlife habitats and open space benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montgomery County In Montgomery County, voters in Upper Frederick and Upper Providence townships faced questions about tax increases…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1383,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-25570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-elections-2025","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25570","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=25570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}