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Keystone Oaks board acknowledges AIU $2.3M program budget; commercial delinquencies cited in tax collections
Summary
The Keystone Oaks board accepted the AIU 2025–26 program services budget and discussed nearly $1 million in delinquent taxes, with staff attributing most of the increase to commercial property delinquencies; board approved the AIU budget acknowledgment and tax-collector exonerations by voice votes.
Keystone Oaks School District board members voted to acknowledge the Allegheny Intermediate Unit’s (AIU) 2025–26 program of services budget and approved routine exonerations of tax collectors while staff outlined rising commercial tax delinquencies.
Finance director Joe Haley presented the AIU program budget, which lists $2,300,000 in total program costs for 2025–26 and an estimated Keystone Oaks share of about $40,054, based on the district’s aid ratio and weighted average daily membership. "The program services budget is estimated for Keystone Oaks to be about $40,054," Haley said. He added that the state will determine the final withholding allocation after July 1, 2025.
Haley described the AIU payment as a formula-driven deduction taken from the district’s basic education funding rather than a separate warrant the district writes. "You never write a check; it comes right out of your basic education funding," he said.
The board also approved exoneration of the district’s tax collectors for listed boroughs. Haley and other staff described roughly $1 million in delinquent taxes that had been turned over for collection, noting the amount includes delinquencies carried over from prior years. "Typically, we see anywhere from $600,000 to $800,000 in delinquent collection each year," a staff presenter said, adding that this year’s increase is driven largely by commercial property delinquencies.
Board members asked how collections are handled; staff described standard collection steps — mailing letters, offering payment plans and, as a last resort, proceeding to a sheriff’s sale. "Ultimately, if they don't [pay] year after year, then we'll head down the sheriff's-sale road," a staff member said.
The board approved the AIU acknowledgement and the exonerations by voice vote. No roll-call tallies were recorded in the transcript; votes were taken by voice and recorded as "Aye."
What happens next: the PA Department of Education will confirm the AIU withholding allocation after July 1, 2025, and staff said the district will continue to work with collection agents to recover delinquent taxes.
