{"id":300402,"date":"2026-10-05T22:22:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T22:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300402\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T22:22:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T22:22:44","slug":"reading-city-council-takes-first-look-at-mayors-proposed-budget-no-tax-hike-included-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300402\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading City Council takes first look at mayor&#8217;s proposed budget, no tax hike included | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Reading City Council is taking its first look at the mayor&#8217;s proposed spending plan for next year.<\/p>\n<p>The budget is being presented at a special meeting in City Hall Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>69 News is told the plan doesn&#8217;t include a tax hike, and that it&#8217;s just a proposal at this point.<\/p>\n<p>After the special meeting, council will have a committee of the whole meeting to begin discussing the plan and any possible changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Reading City Council is taking its first look at the mayor&#8217;s proposed spending plan for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[16989,8003,123774,84,17259,128,1095,130,129,94275,9346],"class_list":["post-300402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-budget-proposal","tag-city-hall","tag-committee-of-the-whole","tag-mayor","tag-public-finance","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-council","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-special-meeting","tag-tax-hike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300402","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=300402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}