Coatesville budget vote signals real progress

Kudos to City Council for stepping up to address fiscal mess By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times In a world of typically boring municipal budgets, the City of Coatesville is about to get very interesting. Monday night, the City Council voted to approve a preliminary budget for 2015 that does two seemingly impossible things: it doesn’t raise property taxes and it doesn’t dip into the city’s dwindling...