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Pine-Richland board adopts 2026–27 preliminary budget to seek special-education referendum exceptions
Summary
The board approved a preliminary 2026–27 budget that lists $117,578,474 in expenditures and $110,484,916 in revenues and authorizes submission to the Pennsylvania Department of Education to request referendum exceptions related to special-education costs.
The Pine-Richland School District board on Feb. 9 approved a preliminary 2026–27 budget that will allow the district to apply to the Pennsylvania Department of Education for Act 1 referendum exceptions tied to increased special-education expenditures.
Under the preliminary figures presented to the board, total expenditures were listed at $117,578,474 with total revenues of $110,484,916 and a planned use of assigned fund balance of $7,093,638. The agenda noted a requested tax rate of 20.6339 (presentation language included a reported percentage increase tied to the Act 1 index, which the board stated is 3.5 percent for 2026).
Superintendent Doctor Miller said submitting the preliminary budget and the request for exceptions does not commit the board to permanently raising taxes to that level: “If we do qualify, it does not mean the board has to later, you know, raise taxes to that level,” he told members.
Board members had no further discussion and the motion to approve the preliminary budget and proceed with the Department of Education process was passed.
