5/12/16
by News Department on 05/12/16
The Pottsville Area school board has managed to hold the line on taxes for a decade, however, school board President John F. Boran said that won’t be the case for the 2016-17 school year.
Boran said a tax increase is imminent listing charter schools, special education and retirement as some of the reasons why.
According to the Republican Herald, the school board’s finance committee was prepared Wednesday to recommend the tentative adoption of a spending plan $42,598,089 for the 2016-17 school year with a 1.15 mill tax increase, the maximum allowed under Act 1.
Boran said the committee will be prepared to make the recommendation on May 18 with the date set for the final adoption adoption of the budget on June 22.
