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Whitehall‑Coplay finance committee previews $103M budget, $4M borrowing; public speaker questions free lunch policy
Summary
Finance staff presented a proposed $103M expenditure budget for 2025–26 (projected revenues $96M), recommended borrowing about $4.0M to finish capital projects and asked the committee to use a 5.3% tax‑increase placeholder; a public commenter objected to universal free lunches and asked for greater budget transparency.
Whitehall‑Coplay School District’s finance committee on Monday reviewed a proposed 2025–26 budget that projects roughly $103 million in expenditures against about $96 million in revenues and discussed a plan to borrow approximately $4.0 million to complete ongoing capital projects.
Business manager (introduced at the meeting) and Garrett Moore of PFM told the committee the proposed borrowing would primarily fund electrical work and window replacements at Steckle and the middle school and several smaller projects. “For this series of 2025 issuance, we’re looking to borrow $4,000,000…just to put a pencil in all the existing projects that you have going on,” Moore…
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