The Sanatoga Post

Normally, news reporters go to cover – and not get involved in – events and meetings. A departure from that habit made Tuesday’s Pottsgrove school board discussions a bit unusual.

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Less than 24 hours after it decided to form a Community Budget Task Force to offer suggestions on 2011-2012 spending cuts, the Pottsgrove School District has issued its first call for volunteers.

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The Board of School Directors agreed Tuesday night to move ahead with a plan that actively seeks public input in forming its spending priorities for the 2011-2012 school year.

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When its board meets tonight, the school district superintendent is expected to make a proposal on how more residents could be involved in the 2011-2012 budget process.

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LOWER POTTSGROVE PA – A one-time federal economic stimulus infusion of $1.6 million, used creatively by the Pottsgrove School District, can lower next year’s projected budget deficit from $646,000 to $71,000, Business Administrator David Nester told the district Board of School Directors on Tuesday (April 28, 2009). But the money would not reduce the proposed [...]

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SANATOGA PA – Reacting to what they described as an overwhelming response from constituents, members of the Lower Pottsgrove Township Board of Commissioners reversed course Thursday night (Dec. 18, 2008) and decided to restore previously cut funding for the Pottstown Public Library. It won’t happen until January, though, and so the board approved the township’s [...]

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SANATOGA PA – Resolutions addressing the approval of the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township 2009 budget, and its accompanying taxes and rates (for real estate, fire services, street light assessments, and others), top the agenda for the township Board of Commissioners‘ meeting tonight (Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008) at 7 p.m. in the municipal building, 2199 Buchert [...]

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LOWER POTTSGROVE PA – The collapse of Wall Street, a national recession, and job layoffs all have contributed to a sharp decline in charitable giving statewide. The township Board of Commissioners apparently expects to feel that pinch, too, according to the township’s 2009 tentative budget. Thanks to an occasional bequest or, more often, small donations [...]

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Income was higher and expenses were lower in the Pottsgrove School District for the fiscal year ending June 30, giving it a budget surplus of $1.3 million, the district Board of Education officially learned last night (Oct. 14, 2008). District bank accounts bulged by $300,000 more than anticipated, Business Administrator David Nester said, and Pottsgrove [...]

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It’s the week of “B” words. As in “brace” yourself, “budget” talk ahead. The annual process of determining how much money (in taxes and other revenues) is available next year to public officials for operating the governing bodies to which they were elected – and how that money gets spent – is under way. It’s [...]

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