Penn-Trafford SD to ask board to adopt budget, approve contracts and set tax resolutions next meeting

A district staff member told the Penn-Trafford School District board that at the next meeting the administration will ask the board to adopt a school budget and take a package of routine fiscal and personnel actions.

The items listed for action include adopting a school budget; granting permission to advertise for bids; authorizing payments for end-of-year invoices and credits earned; naming banks as depositories; assigning fund balance; approving compensation rates and equipment purchases; and authorizing various contracts related to athletics, including athletic trainer and physician service agreements.

The staff member also said the agenda will include food-service items to set breakfast and lunch prices, a personnel agenda that will include tentative assignments, supplemental contract extensions and authority for administrators to fill vacancies, and federal-program actions such as authorizing submission of applications and participation in the Drug Free Schools and Communities Act. The staff member said the board will be asked to “adopt attachment a of IDE a’s hyphen b program narrative,” and to appoint PSBA voting delegates.

On tax and insurance matters, the staff member said the board will be asked to set the military (military exemption), adopt a homestead and farmstead exclusion resolution and adopt a tax resolution.

The staff member also noted recent executive sessions: one at 5:15 p.m. the night of the meeting and one May 18, 2025, at 7 p.m., both described as personnel matters. No formal votes on these listed agenda items were recorded in the meeting transcript provided.

Direction/next steps: the administration will present the listed items for formal action at the board’s next meeting; the transcript does not show any board votes or final decisions on these items during the session summarized here.