Zelienople Borough Council voted unanimously Monday night to approve the 2023 projected budget, which totals $12,174,632 and includes a 3.22% increase in the total dollar value of the budget size from last year.

The borough’s 2022 budget was $11,794,949.

Borough manager Don Pepe said Zelienople’s 2022 incorporation of the parks and recreation department — which was not previously under the borough’s management — accounted for the largest difference between budgets.

It is at this time impossible to say what these changes will look like as a breakdown of line items, but further information will soon become available at the borough’s office, library and website, finance director Erin Norton said.