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Boyertown proposes 2025-26 budget built on 3% tax increase; board to consider proposed and final votes in April and May
Summary
Administration presented a proposed 2025-26 general fund budget that assumes a 3% real-estate tax increase, builds in a modest set of new student-centered positions, includes a proposed district property-tax and rent rebate, and relies partly on fund balance if state revenues fall short.
Mrs. Denicola, the district chief financial officer, presented the proposed 2025-26 general fund budget to the Committee of the Whole on April 8. The administration's preview assumes a 3% local real-estate tax increase and total budgeted revenue of $148,750,131 (local, state and federal) and proposed expenditures of $150,604,017.
Denicola summarized revenue drivers and assumptions: the 3% local real-estate tax increase is included in the proposal; the district budget also assumes Governor Shapiro's proposed Ready to Learn increase of about $1.45 million and includes budgeted federal revenue of $867,154. She said federal sources in 2023-24 were higher than budgeted largely because ESSER funds were still available and noted that federal dollars typically pass through to increased expenditures in the same year.
On expenditures, the proposed budget includes 13.5 new full-time…
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