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Mount Union board tentatively adopts $26.6 million 2024–25 budget amid debate over tax increase

Mount Union Area Board of Education · May 29, 2024
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Summary

The Mount Union Area Board of Education voted to grant tentative adoption of its 2024–25 proposed final budget after heated discussion about a projected $2 million-plus shortfall and whether a tax increase is necessary to offset charter-school costs and declining reserves.

The Mount Union Area Board of Education voted to grant tentative adoption of the district's proposed 2024–25 final budget, which lists total anticipated expenditures of $26,619,258 and anticipated revenues of $24,654,536.

Board members and members of the public spent more than an hour debating the package's fiscal assumptions and whether to seek a local tax increase to cover a structural shortfall. One board member warned the…

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