{"id":225385,"date":"2026-06-23T00:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225385\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T00:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:45:11","slug":"whitehall-coplay-school-board-to-review-final-budget-plans-at-high-interest-meeting-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225385\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitehall\u2011Coplay School Board to review final budget plans at high\u2011interest meeting | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHITEHALL, Pa. – Monday night at 7:00 p.m. the Whitehall Coplay School Board will hold its monthly board meeting.<\/p>\n

This meeting is garnering much community interest as the district faces financial hardships.<\/p>\n

Monday’s meeting comes nearly one month after the board moved forward with a proposal to cut dozens of positions<\/a>. The reorganization plan was met with push back from the community.<\/p>\n

A major item that community members are taking interest in is the budget. We previously reported that the proposed budget features a 4.7% tax increase. That is the highest amount Whitehall-Coplay can raise taxes per the Act 1 Index.<\/p>\n

The budget needs final approval, with a deadline looming.<\/p>\n

Listed under executive committee matters are 3 percent supplemental salary increases for the Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent.<\/p>\n

Also on the agenda is the approval of employee salaries, and multiple compensation plans.<\/p>\n

The meeting is set for 7:00 at the WCSD Education Center.<\/p>\n

69 News will have an updated report following the meeting at 10:00 p.m. on WFMZ-TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITEHALL, Pa. – Monday night at 7:00 p.m. the Whitehall Coplay School Board will hold its monthly board…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,222,97867,97868,4900,38446,79735,16988,93725],"class_list":["post-225385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-budget","tag-community-interest","tag-employee-compensation","tag-public-meeting","tag-salary-increases","tag-staff-cuts","tag-tax-increase","tag-whitehall-coplay-school-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225385","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=225385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}