JACKSON TWP — The township board of supervisors passed its 2017 budget Thursday evening.

The budget projects about $4.167 million in total revenues and about $4.45 million in total expenditures. This year’s budget has about $4.15 million in revenues and $4.02 million in expenditures. The township will have more than $937,000 in the general fund which it can use to plug the budget gap.

“It’s good,” supervisors chairman Trent Geis said. “It’s another win for the township.”

One change in the budget is the dedication of 1.5 mills of the total 8.25 mills of real estate tax imposed for the Harmony Fire District, an increase of three eighths of a mill from the current 1.125 mills.

The fire district asked all four municipalities in its service area last year to have their respective fire taxes at 1.5 mills. The municipalities include Jackson and Lancaster townships, Zelienople and Harmony.

Projected revenues for the fire district are at $76,249.

Geis said a $350,000 home in the township would pay seven dollars a year that would go toward the fire district.

“We tried raising revenues without having to raise taxes,” Supervisor Ron Lutz said.

Township manager Chris Rearick said about one quarter of the township’s revenues come from real estate taxes.