Residents of cash-strapped Greenville may finally be getting a break: They probably won't be facing an increase in their borough property tax bills next year.

Council Thursday discussed its tentative 2004 budget of $3.6 million. As it is now, the spending plan does not call for any increase in property or income taxes.

The real estate levy is expected to stay at 21 mills. Council will petition the Mercer County Common Plea Court to keep its income tax rate at 1.7 percent for residents and 1.5 percent for nonresidents who work in Greenville, as required by the borough's state-mandated economic recovery plan. Greenville became a Pennsylvania economically distressed community in 2002.

As previously announced, customers of Greenville Sanitary Authority, however, will see their sewer fees rise because a state grant that normally provides $67,000 a year was nixed from the state budget.