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Nov. 23-27: This Week in Harrisburg

 

Monday, Nov. 23

Harrisburg City Council Budget & Finance Committee, 5:30 p.m.
City Hall, 10 N. 2nd St.

On the agenda: Two housekeeping items—a contract with an outside tax collector and an agreement with the school district on business privilege, mercantile and amusement tax collection.

Tuesday, Nov. 24

Harrisburg City Council Legislative Session, 6 p.m.
City Hall, 10 N. 2nd St.

On the agenda: First reading of Mayor Papenfuse’s 2016 budget. The city is still under state oversight, so watch for disagreements between the city and state over the revenue sources and staffing levels in the spending plan. Papenfuse said in September that the city will need to raise taxes. But some of those hikes would expire if the city ever left state oversight, which the mayor also wants it to do.

Wednesday, Nov. 25

Dauphin County Commissioners, 10 a.m.
Dauphin County Administration Building, 2nd & Market Sts., 4th Floor

On the agenda: Presentation of the county’s 2016 budget.

Harrisburg School Board Community Relations Committee, 6 p.m.
District Administrative Offices, 1601 State St.

On the agenda: Unknown. The superintendent’s office said an academic committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday was cancelled, and that the same might be true for Wednesday. The board is in a period of upheaval, with the surprise resignation last week of its president, Jennifer Smallwood. The nine-member board will soon have five new members— four newly elected, one appointed to replace Smallwood—after two straight years of declining test scores under a state recovery plan. The board’s reorganization meeting is scheduled for Dec. 7 at 6:30 p.m.

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