BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 The longtime schools superintendent of the Bensalem Township School District is expected to resign at Wednesday night’s school board meeting, officials said. <\/p>\n
Schools Superintendent Samuel Lee’s resignation is on the school board’s agenda for its meeting on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n
Besides accepting Lee’s resignation, the school board is expected to appoint an interim schools superintendent and also hold its first budget session, officials said.<\/p>\n
In a separate move, the school board will also vote on the resignation of the district’s financial manager Brett Haskin.<\/p>\n
School officials said Haskin’s resignation is coincidental and not tied to the district’s “severe financial situation.”<\/p>\n
The resignation of Lee comes as the school board has held multiple community meetings to address the school budget shortfall.<\/p>\n
School Board Vice President Stephanie Gonzalez Ferrandez had told Patch that the school district is facing a $12 million deficit with an Act 1 tax increase and $16 million without a tax hike for the 2026-2027 school budget.<\/p>\n
Ferrandez, contacted by Patch on Wednesday, said she could not comment on Lee’s potential resignation.<\/p>\n
Patch sent an email to Susan Phy, the school district’s communications director, seeking comment about the resignations.<\/p>\n
Lee had sent an email earlier this year to the Bensalem school community stating that the district is facing “a significant budget shortfall” driven largely by rising special education costs and charter school funding obligations, expenses that are mandated and largely outside of our local control.<\/p>\n