{"id":191224,"date":"2026-05-13T13:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/191224\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:51:37","slug":"parkland-school-board-oks-proposed-2026-27-budget-with-3-5-tax-hike-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/191224\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkland school board OKs proposed 2026-27 budget with 3.5% tax hike | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"

S. WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. \u2013 The Parkland School District Board of Directors on Tuesday night approved a proposed 2026-27 general fund budget<\/a> which includes a tax increase.<\/p>\n

The $261.7 million spending plan features a $15.6 million deficit. To assist in reducing this deficit, the administration is requesting a 3.5% tax increase on property owners.<\/p>\n

For a property assessed at $233,431, the tax bill would rise to $4,300, a $145.43 annual increase.<\/p>\n

The 3.5% tax increase would provide the district an additional $5.8 million, still leaving a $9.8 million deficit. The deficit will be covered by Parkland’s fund balance.<\/p>\n

A final vote is scheduled next month.<\/p>\n

Lilly LERTA<\/p>\n

The school board also tabled a state tax incentive program to benefit a major land development project.<\/p>\n

The Local Economic Revitalization Tax Act, or LERTA,<\/a> would benefit a proposed $3.5 billion pharmaceutical plant by Eli Lilly and Company in Upper Macungie Township. The project, the largest-ever Lehigh Valley economic development proposal, is slated for the Fogelsville Corporate Center located near Adams Road and Interstate 78.<\/p>\n

Superintendent Mark Madson requested the board table the LERTA document.<\/p>\n

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Parkland School District to \u2018review the terms\u2019 in proposed tax incentive for Eli Lilly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S. WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. \u2013 The Parkland School District Board of Directors on Tuesday night approved a proposed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,222,10588,64868,9409,18524,17057,16988],"class_list":["post-191224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-budget","tag-eli-lilly","tag-lerta","tag-parkland-school-district","tag-property-tax","tag-school-board","tag-tax-increase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}