{"id":192903,"date":"2026-05-15T03:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192903\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T03:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:13:11","slug":"saucon-valley-school-board-approves-57m-preliminary-budget-with-1-tax-increase-school-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192903\/","title":{"rendered":"Saucon Valley school board approves $57m preliminary budget with 1% tax increase | School Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 The Saucon Valley School District Board of Directors approved a preliminary budget for the 2026-2027 school year on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The approved preliminary budget totals approximately $57 million and includes a tax increase of approximately 1%, according to district officials.<\/p>\n<p>This equates to an estimated annual increase of about $55 for a home assessed at $100,000, according to a news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Key figures discussed during the meeting included:<\/p>\n<p>Proposed Preliminary Budget: Approximately $57 millionEstimated Tax Increase: Approximately 1%Estimated Impact on a $100,000 Assessed Home: Approximately $55 annuallyEstimated Revenue Generated by a 1% Increase: Approximately $356,000<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary budget now moves forward for continued review and public inspection before final adoption later this spring, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 The Saucon Valley School District Board of Directors approved a preliminary budget for the 2026-2027&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,232,153,155,154,9179,233],"class_list":["post-192903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown-area","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-school_boards","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192903","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=192903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}