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Chambersburg Area SD presents proposed preliminary 2025-26 budget showing 2% tax-rate proposal and small projected deficit
Summary
District staff presented a proposed preliminary budget for 2025-26 that includes a 2% real-estate tax-rate proposal, projected revenues and expenditures near $201 million and a modest projected deficit the administration expects to close during the budget process.
Tammy Stauffer presented the Chambersburg Area School District's proposed preliminary budget for the 2025-26 school year, outlining revenue and expenditure assumptions and next steps in the budget schedule.
Stauffer said the proposed preliminary budget reflects a 2% increase in the real estate tax rate and projects total revenues of roughly $201 million and expenditures on a similar order. The administration projects a modest deficit of about $453,000 under the 2% scenario and an assigned fund balance of just over $22 million (about 11% of expenditures) by the end of the 2025-26 fiscal year. Stauffer described that outcome as "pretty healthy for where we need to be right now."
Key assumptions and line items noted by Stauffer…
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