Schuylkill Valley School Board OKs tentative budget; no tax hike
By Matthew Nojiri, Reading Eagle, Pa. | |
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services |
The board voted 7-1 to approve the budget, with
The board still has time to decide if it wants to tinker with the 2014-15 budget before the final vote in June.
Board members said they wanted administrators to look at whether the district needs to fill all 10 positions from which people are retiring.
The tentative final budget adds two long-term substitutes in the elementary school to keep class sizes down in the first and third grades, said Dr.
The two long-term substitutes would cost the district about
Mata said he would look at the retirements in the high school to see if all the positions needed to be filled. He said the long-term substitutes give the district flexibility since they would not be permanent positions.
The budget is 3.5 percent higher than the current year's spending plan. The board plans to use nearly
The district's tax rate is 26.79 mills for 2013-14. The annual tax bill for a property assessed at
On Monday, the board voted to take
Other than the
The district is saving about
Raudenbush said he voted against the tentative budget because it did not have a tax increase. He is worried about how that would affect the district heading into next year.
The district has
Before the budget vote, the board talked about its financial position heading into the future.
"Things have improved dramatically," said board member
Board member
"Our ending fund balance could be
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