Shenandoah Valley board adopts tentative budget with no tax hike
The proposed budget approved
District Business Manager
However, the estimated revenues for 2019-20 are not quite at the same level at
The budget will be balanced from the fund balance account, Demalis said.
"Total salary increase is
Health, retirement, charter school costs up
Demalis said health insurance costs are increasing
"What we're expecting charter school tuition to be next year is
"Charter schools are really hurting the district as far as financials go," Demalis said. "We don't get any extra funding for it. ... We have about 65 to 70 kids that are at cyber-charters and Gillingham, which is a brick-and-mortar school. If we had all of those kids here, we would save --
The issue was raised on
"I'm conservative when I budget, and I have to assume the worse," Demalis said. "I didn't budget what the governor has anticipated giving us. I hope it goes through, but I can't assume that."
Other taxes
Other scheduled taxes show no changes from the current fiscal year. Taxes marked as "shared" are divided for distribution, with 50 percent to the school district and the remainder to the school district's municipalities,
--Earned income tax (Act 511) -- 1 percent (shared). Levied on salaries, wages, commissions and other compensation
--Realty transfer tax (Act 511) -- 1 percent (shared)
--Per capita tax --
--Per capita tax --
--Local services tax --
--Occupational assessment --
--Five percent tax upon gross of any person/entity engaging in culm processing business.
--Ash disposal fee of
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