Board adopts 2025–26 budget, approves multiple contracts and agreements; tax appeal stipulations noted

The Easton Area School District Board of Education took multiple routine and substantive votes during the regular meeting, approving the district’s proposed 2025–26 general fund budget, awarding or renewing several contracts and agreements, and authorizing settlement stipulations for tax appeals. Multiple personnel and operational motions were approved as part of the consent agenda.

Key votes and outcomes taken on the record included:

- Adoption of the 2025–26 final general fund budget and attached tax levy resolution. The board approved a final general fund budget listed in the agenda as $214,105,899. During discussion trustees asked for clarification on fund balance lines that were blank in the published budget materials; the CFO said final audit numbers were being completed and offered to present preliminary audit findings to an ad hoc committee for review. (Outcome: approved; no opposition recorded on the record.)

- Approval of stipulations of counsel resolving net tax assessment appeals for several properties. District staff said the gross numbers in the agenda represented approximately…