2015-4-30; Sewickley Herald

              WORK IN PROGRESS
Volunteers help get Legacy Fields
at Bouchard Park closer to ready
for athletic action. Page 4.
FITTING TRIBUTE
The names of three more veterans are
added to the Tuskegee Airmen Memorial in Sewickley Cemetery. Page 10.
DOMINANT EFFORT
The Quaker Valley girls lacrosse team
has yet to lose to a WPIAL opponent in
2015. Page 30.
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A local teen who used jumping
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FRIEND
Nathan
Johnson, 8, of
Moon, makes
friends with
Max, an Alaskan
Malamute that
was taking
children for a
ride on a cart
Saturday during
the Sewickley
YMCA Healthy
Kids Day. For
more from the
event, see
Page 9.
KEITH HODAN | TRIB TOTAL MEDIA
QV district
taxpayers could
see higher tab
Proposed school budget would increase
bills by almost $80 a year on average
by TOM McCEE
Taxpayers in the Quaker Valley School
District could face a tax increase in the 2015-16
school year.
The $45.1 million proposed budget calls
for a property tax rate of 17.4612 mills, an
increase of 0.3064 mills. For a property owner
with a home assessed at the average value of
$260,000, that would mean a tax increase of
nearly $80 per year.
The final budget is to be voted on at the
7 p.m. May 19 school board meeting. A public
budget committee meeting is set for 7 p.m.
May 6. Both will be held at Edgeworth Elementary School.
Superintendent Heidi Ondek said officials
still are finalizing the district1 s spending plan.
The preliminary budget must be passed a
month before the final budget is approved.
"We're still working at it," Ondek said.
Salaries and benefits make up about 66 percent of the district's expenses — about
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