THE CITY OF SCRANTON - 2024 Operating Budget
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The City of Scranton's 2023 General Operating Budget document presents amendments to the original budget proposal, filed as Council File #33, 2022. The amendments include revenue adjustments totaling approximately $47,863 (primarily from increased delinquent refuse collections and ARPA transfers) and expenditure reductions of approximately $240,582, with significant salary adjustments across multiple departments including Police, Fire, Business Administration, and Treasury. The budget amendments reflect a combination of revenue and spending modifications affecting core city operations and administrative functions.
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The City of Scranton submitted its 2024 Operating Budget on November 6, 2023, under Mayor Paige G. Cognetti and Business Administrator Eileen Cipriani, which includes estimated revenues from taxes and fees alongside detailed departmental expenditures that do not exceed projected income. The budget narrative highlights ongoing economic challenges including interest rate volatility, rising housing costs, and workforce pressures, while noting that Scranton has achieved budget surpluses in 2020–2022 and is tracking well in 2023 through careful expenditure management and healthcare cost reductions. The city is incrementally raising employee salaries to improve competitiveness with comparable Pennsylvania municipalities, and has issued a $4,070,000 General Obligation Note in 2023 for capital expenditures while minimizing increases to 2024 debt service; the city has also adopted Investment, Fund Balance, and Debt Management policies and created an Other Post Employment Benefits Trust to manage long-term liabilities.
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The 2024 Allegheny County Comprehensive Fiscal Plan, presented by County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, proposes a balanced operating budget of $1,054.6 million for 2024, along with a $116.3 million capital budget for 66 infrastructure and capital improvement projects supported by $70.0 million in bond revenues and other funding sources. The plan includes required longer-range forecasts for fiscal years 2025-2026 (operating budgets) and 2025-2029 (capital improvements), as well as a grants budget of $1.7 billion requiring $14.9 million in county matching funds.
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