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The Greencastle-Antrim School Board is scheduled to decide next week how to close the $867,157 gap between revenues and expenditures in the 2021-22 budget.
The board is expected to approve the final budget during a meeting beginning at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 17, in the high school library. Members of the public can attend the meeting in person and it also can be viewed on YouTube, accessible from the school district website.
The finance committee is recommending a 2.5% property tax increase and taking $250,000 from capital reserves to make up most of the difference between $44,272,428 in projected revenues and $45,139,585 in projected expenditures, according to committee member Tracy Baer.
Police: Student upset about lunch climbs tree, needs rescue
York Dispatch
A 12-year-old boy who was upset about his lunch climbed a tree Wednesday and needed to be rescued in North York, according to a Northern York Regional Police news release.
Northern York Regional Police responded Wednesday to Lincoln Intermediate Unit, located 300 E. 7th Ave., after a student had climbed a tree and couldn t get down, according to a department news release.
The boy was apparently upset about his lunch, police said, and ran out of the building to the corner of North Queen Street and East 6th Avenue, where he climbed a tree.
The Bermudian Springs School Board unanimously adopted a preliminary budget for the 2021-22 school year that will require the district to dip into its reserves for a second year in a row.
The tentative budget calls for a 4.1 percent property tax increase, the maximum allowed by the Act I Index, but that percentage may be reduced or eliminated by the time the budget is finalized in June.
âKeep in mind itâs a preliminary budget. Whatever we establish, we cannot go up, we can only go down,â said Board President Michael Wool. âWeâve always adopted the index as the preliminary, but there have been a number of years we have not gone to the index.â