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Wyoming Area presents proposed 2025-26 budget with $1.4 million worst-case shortfall; board adopts proposed final budget
Summary
District business consultant Albert B. Malone presented a proposed 2025-26 general fund budget with a $47,312,083 spending plan and multiple scenarios depending on state aid and a possible property-tax index increase. The board voted to adopt the proposed final budget for advertisement; four members recorded "no" votes on the budget line item.
William and Mary School Board President and district officials unveiled a proposed final general fund budget for the 2025-26 school year at the May 20 meeting, showing $47,312,083 in planned expenditures and multiple scenarios that could leave the district with a shortfall in the range of about $1.4 million under a worst-case assumption.
Albert B. Malone, the district's business consultant, described the presentation as a starting point and repeatedly emphasized the word "proposed." Malone said the baseline plan assumes no tax-rate increase and does not include the governor's budget proposals; under that scenario he showed a $1.4 million shortfall. He presented alternative property-tax index increases (2.75%, 3.5% and the maximum 5.5%) and the partial revenue effects if the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania adopts the governor's new funding allocations.
The presentation showed the district ending 2023-24 with about $4.2 million in fund balance and noted several drivers of the district's fiscal pressures: the end of ESSER…
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