Approved C-K Budget Could Raise Taxes to 7.7% Act 1 Index

The Claysburg-Kimmel School Board of Directors approved a preliminary 2024/25 budget which will raise taxes to the Act 1 limit of 7.7% and would cost the average homeowner $1.52 a week , $80 a year more per household, and generate $321,740.

The millage rate in Greenfield and Kimmel townships would be increased to 9.76 and 11.71 mills. The budget shows $14,651,863 in expected expenditures and $14,306,667 in revenue with a deficit of $345,196.

The board does not know what they will receive in state funding at this point, so they took the budget to the Act 1 limit. Superintendent Brian Helsel sai...