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Trappe Adopted Its FY27 Budget in June; Lakeside Still Defines the Map

Ordinance 1-2026 set the budget and tax rates; the housing proposal remains the town's shadow file.

Helen Voss, a Civic Affairs desk pen name ·

Trappe town hall and a rural road at the edge of development
AI-generated illustration; not a photograph of Trappe town hall and a rural road at the edge of development.

Trappe Town Council meets the first Wednesday of the month at 6 p.m. at 4011 Powell Avenue. Jeremy R. Newnam is council president.

On June 3 the council held a public hearing and adopted Ordinance 1-2026, the FY2027 budget and tax rates, and swore in newly elected members. The July 1 session was the first regular night under that budget.

The number that still defines Trappe is not the ordinance. It is Lakeside — the large housing proposal that has split the county council, the Planning Commission, and the town for years. County votes on sewer, resolution language, and who sits in Easton all land back on this board's map. A Trappe meeting that does not mention infrastructure is a meeting waiting for the next county packet.

The Patriot's Trappe recap keeps Lakeside, the budget, and the first-Wednesday vote in the same file. Agendas are at trappemd.net. Show up at 6 p.m. if you live with the construction, the traffic, or the promise of the next plat.

Source: Town of Trappe

Open the town recaps.

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