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Elizabethtown Area School District approves 2025–26 budget with 2.5% tax increase, will draw on reserves
Summary
After hours of public comment and a failed amendment to raise the rate further, the Elizabethtown Area School District board approved a final 2025–26 budget that sets the tax increase at 2.5% and directs use of fund balance to cover a planned shortfall.
The Elizabethtown Area School District Board on May 27 approved the district's final 2025–26 budget with a 2.5% tax increase and a plan to draw on the district's fund balance to cover an anticipated shortfall of $1,483,365.
The vote followed more than an hour of public comment and a contentious proposal to postpone the budget and raise the tax rate to 4.5%, which failed on a 6–2 roll-call vote. Board members then approved the budget as presented; the final roll call on the budget was 6 yes, 2 no (No: Board member Thomas Reed and Board member Matthew Emery; Yes: Board members Jonathan Gillis, Mary Lindemuth, Matthew Riggleman, Amanda Schrum, Karen Wilson, and Board President Steven Lindemuth).
Supporters of a larger tax increase said the district should avoid drawing from savings and fully fund staff and libraries; opponents argued the…
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