The Great Valley School Board will decide Tuesday night whether to keep Act 1 exceptions on the table.
At its Tuesday night meeting, the Great Valley School District Board of Directors will decide whether to keep any tax increase for the 2013-14 school year within the state-mandated inflation index of 1.7 percent. The vote will determine how—and when—the rest of the budgeting process will unfold. The decision boils down to approving one of two resolutions, as stated in the online meeting agenda: Board adopts resolution to either approve going forward with the Act 1 budget process and applying for eligible referendums or adopts a resolution to waive the Act 1 process and construct the budget within the 1.7% Index for the 2013-2014 School Year. The above slide, taken from the Jan. 14 Great Valley School Board budget presentation, lists the …
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Some board members say no, because reserve funds can be used to balance the budget.
Stay within the Act 1 budget index, or apply for permission to exceed it? Each year since the 2006 passage of the Taxpayer Relief Act, school districts across Pennsylvania have debated that question. This school year, however, some Great Valley School Board members have questioned whether the district is eligible to even apply for the exemptions. At a December 2011 meeting, school board member Bruce Chambers explained his reasons. "Both the guidelines and the statute plainly say that school district may, without seeking voter approval, increase the rate of tax by more than the index if all of following apply, and they list two conditions," Chambers said. "The first condition is that the revenue raised by the allowable increase under the …
Abraham
7:30 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Pete posted the results in a separate article a little while ago. They voted 6-2 to keep the exceptions as a possibility. A prudent move. Ravenfeld and Leisenring voting against with Foret absent (although he surely would have voted against the resolution as well). more ›