Council Rock SD to contract Bucks County IU for homestead‑exclusion mailings; cost shown as roughly $0.90 per parcel

Tony Rafterick, the district’s business administrator, presented the district’s planned 2025–26 homestead/farmstead mailing agreement with the Bucks County Intermediate Unit on Dec. 4 and described the required process and estimated costs.

Rafterick explained the homestead exclusion process: the state provides a total homestead exclusion amount, which the district divides by the number of homestead exclusions to reduce eligible taxpayers’ real‑estate tax bills. The district is required to mail application notices to homeowners who have not filed, and it contracts with the Bucks County Intermediate Unit to perform the mailing at scale for multiple districts.

Rafterick said the district’s estimated total mailing cost is $6,417.15 for 7,162 parcels—about $0.90 per parcel—and noted the per‑parcel cost is marginally higher than the prior year (the transcript’s per‑parcel phrasing was garbled; totals and parcel counts were explicit). He said the exclusion notices will be printed in December.

There was no recorded motion or vote on the item during the portion of the meeting in this transcript. Committee members asked no substantive questions about the mailing contract during the discussion captured in the transcript; the item was presented as the final agenda item for the finance committee portion of the meeting.