Boyertown Area SD finance committee: forecasting shows near-balance if district adopts roughly 2% tax increase

Interim CFO Mister Lentz told the Boyertown Area School District finance committee in November that aligning next year’s revenue assumptions with recent actuals makes a nearly balanced 2026–27 budget feasible — but only with modest local tax action and continued conservative forecasting.

"If we adjust those revenues to be more aligned to the actuals, it drives more revenue into the budget," Lentz said, adding that "we come pretty close to a balanced budget at this point in time with a 2% tax increase." The presentation and board discussion highlighted three pressures: personnel and benefits, special-education tuition, and debt-service/transfers for capital projects.

Why it matters: the district faces uncertainty from an unresolved state budget and a court-ordered "adequacy" funding process that Lentz said left a local gap of about $13.3 million; Boyertown has received roughly $1.4 million to date, leaving about $11.8 million outstanding that cannot be relied on in the near-term forecast. Local revenues, chiefly…