Property tax bills will be going up by about $30 per year after a divided Penn-Trafford school board approved a 1 mill tax hike. The board voted 6-3 in favor of the 1.1% increase that will support a $68.5 budget the board also approved Monday. Board members Bryan Kline and
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The proposed Penn-Trafford School District budget for the 2023-24 academic year includes no tax increase, but dips in to the fund balance to pay a $700,000 shortfall. Taxes in the Allegheny County portion of the district will actually decrease, according to district officials. The budget, tentatively adopted in May, will
Penn-Trafford property owners will pay more in school taxes under a $63.0 million budget that raises the real estate millage by 1.5 mills in the Westmoreland County portion of the district, an increase of less than 2%. The school board Monday approved increasing taxes from 88.25 mills to 89.75 mills
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Property owners in the Penn-Trafford School District would face a two-mill tax hike under a tentative $60.9 million budget for the 2021-2022 school year adopted Monday.
The two-mill increase would boost taxes to 89.25 mills in the Westmoreland County municipalities of Penn Township, Manor and Trafford that the district serves. In the small portion of Trafford in Allegheny County some 40 properties owners will see an increase of 0.11 mill to 15.25 mills, said Brett Lago, district business manager. The difference in millage rates is due to differences in assessment rates on property in the two counties, Lago said.