(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)

The city of Beaver Falls is looking to make 2023 “even bigger, better, and greater”, as Councilwoman Vanessa Taylor phrased it during her invocation…and they’ll have a good amount of cash to attempt such progress.

At their final meeting of 2022, the city’s council approved the 2023 budget for Beaver Falls at the amount of $46,685,492.13. The budget will take affect when the money is appropriated to the individual departments specified in the budget. The number matches that in the proposed budget, which can be seen by clicking here; the final, approved budget will be available online within the coming days.

The bulk of the budget was arranged and presented through the city’s treasurer, Sandy Wilkins, who was commended for her efforts following the budget’s approval. “You really help the city in ways that we can’t begin to thank you,” Mayor Kenya Johns stated to Wilkins. “We all appreciate you. All your hard work, your late nights, it doesn’t go unnoticed.”

The city also approved the hiring of Michael Gurney as an Operator-In-Training for the Water Works Treatment Plant, a one-year agreement with Valley Waste Services, and a list of General Fund expenditures in the amount of $279,602.59. The councilmembers thanked each other for a good 2022 and thanked Mayor Johns for her first year of leadership; the mayor returned thanks to the Council in kind.

A new year of meetings for the Beaver Falls City Council begins on January 10 at 7:00 PM at the City Building.