At one time, Janice Klein referred to the preliminary budget as "the fake budget."
Jan Klein, whose title changed from Finance Director to Director of Business explained that the purpose of the preliminary budget is to be able to apply for exceptions to the Index limitation on real estate tax rates. I would like to present
Jan Klein's 2017-2018 Fake Budget.
The Post-Gazette reports that according to the "preliminary" budget, our taxes should increase by 0.83 mills to 24.76 mills.
Mt. Lebanon begins work on school budget
Lebo Citizen readers might want to do
a search for "fake budget" on this blog. Read about how Mt. Lebanon resident Bill Matthews demonstrates to the Department of Education how the District annually submits a fake preliminary budget. Bill and I have attended District budget meetings, where we were both treated rudely. The audios of those meetings are still available on
lebocitizens.com. For obvious reasons, those meetings have been discontinued.
For those of you who are new to this process, this is usually when the school board directors like to speak in terms of lattes or pizzas. Just cut back on buying lattes, we were instructed. From 2012, we were told about a $30 million fundraising campaign.
Spin Class 101 We are still in the quiet phase of the now $6 million
Century of Excellence Campaign. I would love to know how much is in that account. Maybe it will show up in the fake Final Budget.
