KERSEY — The Fox Township Supervisors passed a balanced budget on Wednesday that features no tax increase for the upcoming year.

The budget was the center of discussion during a very brief budget workshop meeting prior to the supervisor’s regular monthly meeting.

Township officials had a few minor issues to address to balance the budget ahead of approval.

The township’s landfill host fee account featured a $22,966 deficit coming into Wednesday.

Luckily, the township had a surplus of $230,054 in 2016, which was used to erase the deficit projected for 2017.

To start, the supervisors approved a motion to purchase a compactor this year instead of next year. This will save approximately $20,000 for 2017.

The 2016 surplus will be used to erase the remaining deficit in the 2017 landfill host fund and to reimburse $4,500 to the park development fund.

At October’s supervisor meeting, the township’s recreation board asked the township to pay for some extra expenses that the recreation board incurred on a project through no fault of their own.

The remaining surplus will be placed in the township’s equipment reserve.

With this transfer, the township will have approximately $217,000 to help fund future equipment purchases.

The preliminary budget was passed unanimously at Wednesday’s meeting. The spending plan will now be open for public comment, and the supervisors will vote on a final adoption during their December meeting.

After the supervisors discussed the budget, a regular monthly meeting was held.

The supervisors approved a motion to advertise to accept bids on a 1995 International dump truck with a tailgate spreader.

When the time for public comment rolled around, two visitors filed a formal complaint against Rob Singer for what was described as “unprofessional” behavior during an inspection of a solar-electric system.

Daniel L. Meier of Lightdrop Harvest LLC. stated that he installed a system in Fox Township for Mike Kamandulis but had issues with the inspection done by Singer. Meier claimed that Singer was unprofessional towards himself and Kamandulis during the procedure and started to have concerns over the project after signing off on the inspection.

Meier added that he tried to provide information to Singer but also claimed that Singer was “incompetent” with regards to solar systems.

Kamandulis said his “stomach was in knots” over alleged threats made by Singer in regards to his new solar system.

Singer, who was in attendance at Wednesday’s meeting, said that Meier does not understand how the code process works and that he was making simple requests for information about the project.

With a formal complaint lodged, the supervisors will review the issue prior to their next meeting.

Meier and Kamandulis provided written documents, including an email chain, to the supervisors for review.

Supervisor Mike Keller said that Singer will be provided with the documents and afforded an opportunity to make a written response.

Kamandulis said on Wednesday that he is looking for an apology from Singer and then to move on from the issue.