{"id":57669,"date":"2025-12-10T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57669\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:28:08","slug":"n-lehigh-begins-work-on-budget-times-news-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57669\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Lehigh begins work on budget \u2013 Times News Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published December 10. 2025 03:05PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Northern Lehigh School District won\u2019t surpass the tax rate index in the event it chooses to raise property taxes for the 2026-27 school year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">On a 7-0 vote, the school board on Monday adopted the Act 1 tax levy resolution not to exceed the 4.8% index.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">This year, taxpayers saw a 2.5% increase in their property taxes after the board on a narrow 5-4 margin approved the general fund balance of $43,015,620 for 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">It called for a millage rate of 25.9914 in Lehigh County (per $100 assessed valuation), and a millage rate of 77.7220 in Northampton County (per $100 assessed valuation).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Before that vote, district business manager Sherri Molitoris said the estimated fund balance as of June 30 of this year would be $16,871,542.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Molitoris said they would use $871,139 of the district\u2019s assigned fund balance for the balancing of the budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">She said expenses were $40,324,052, while revenues without fund balance use were $38,786,129.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Estimated ending fund balance was $16,000,403, with utilization of $871,139 for onetime purchases and future planned district needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published December 10. 2025 03:05PM Northern Lehigh School District won\u2019t surpass the tax rate index in the event&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-57669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57669","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=57669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}