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Delaware Valley presents 2025–26 draft budget; board debates 2.74% tax proposal and alternatives
Summary
District business staff presented a proposed 2025–26 final budget showing a projected shortfall and a draft 2.74% real-estate tax increase; board members debated raising the initial proposal to 3.74% and asked staff for follow-up before next week’s adoption vote.
Delaware Valley School District finance staff presented the proposed final 2025–26 budget at the board work session Thursday, showing projected revenues and expenditures that, in the current draft, would be balanced with a proposed real-estate tax increase of 2.74 percent.
The proposal includes an estimated shortfall in the draft and a set of adjustments the administration said reflected board feedback from earlier meetings. "We tried our best to take notes of the comments from the board … and make changes and adjustments to what you had already heard," a staff presenter said during the presentation.
The budget presentation highlighted revenue and expenditure drivers: projected enrollment trends (the presentation used a 1.5% growth factor for projections), reductions in some capital and professional-development requests, a proposed reduction of one middle-school physical-education teaching position through attrition, and a planned move of roughly $200,000 from the general fund into capital for certain technology…
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