4.4% School Tax Hike May Get Some Relief

Lower Merion School District officials are working to reduce the 4.4 percent tax hike proposed with the 2013-14 preliminary budget.

Business manager Victor Orlando said the district could reduce contracted services by about a half-million dollars, according to Main Line Media News.

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On the revenue side, the district estimates that it expects to bring in an additional half-million dollars in taxes that had not been anticipated.

“If it’s around a million, it would bring [the tax increase] down to somewhere between 3.8 or 3.9 percent,” Orlando said. Contracted services can include areas such as technology and operations. According to Supt. Chris McGinley, the district is current spending more on transportation because some of the athletic fields are still not in use. The hope is to be able to reduce this expenditure once its fields are open.