Rate up half a penny for Beach Haven School’s proposed budget

Photo by Ryan Morrill
New initiatives this year include building
and maintenance projects.

A public hearing for Beach Haven School’s proposed budget for the 2016-17 school year will be held at the school on Monday, April 25, at 6 p.m., before the regularly scheduled board meeting. The $2,221,649 total projected budget is an increase of $254,903 from last year’s adopted plan, according to Brian Falkowski, the school’s business administrator.

The amount to be raised by taxation is $1,811,354, which is an increase of $111,637 over the previous year, Falkowski stated. The anticipated local tax rate per $100 of assessed property value is 10.7551 cents. It is an estimated increase of half of one penny from the 2015-16 budget, he noted. The elementary school district annual tax for a home assessed at $700,000 would be $752.857, or $62.738 a month.

School Choice Aid decreased from $164,983 last year to $139,601, Falkowski noted.

New initiatives affecting this year’s budget include $125,000 for building and maintenance projects, he added. 

— Kelley Anne Essinger

This article was published in The SandPaper.