C-K School Board Approves $13 Million Budget for 2019-20

Claysburg-Kimmel school directors gave final approval to the 2019-20 budget during their June meeting.

The budget includes a real estate tax increase of 3.4 percent, the district’s Act I limit.

Expenditures for the next fiscal year in the budget will be $13.156 million and the revenue is $12.519 million, a deficit of $ 636,974.

Final millage rates for 2019-20 are 7.96 mills in Greenfield Township, an increase of .12 from 2018-19, and 10.92 mills in Kimmel Township, an increase of .09.

The board also adopted the following taxes: wage tax, 1 percent; $5 per capita; $10 per capita in Greenfield Township (with one-half going to the township) and $10 per capita in Kimmel; real estate transfer tax of 1 percent; and the Pennsylvania Emergency & Municipal Services Tax (CKSD’s share), $10 in Kimmel and $5 in Greenfield.

Also approved was the 2019 Homestead and Farmstead Exclusion Resolution. The final maximum real estate tax reduction amount applicable to each approved homestead and to each approved farmstead will be $$240.63.