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Article: Budget cuts may put brakes on district's driver education: Hamburg needs to slash programs to stave off a May referendum on its 2007-08 budget.
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- Reading Eagle (Reading, PA)
- Article date:
- January 14, 2007
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Byline: Ron Devlin
Jan. 14--Hamburg High School's driver education course could be one of the district's first casualties under a state law that limits property tax increases to fund public schools.
The Hamburg School District would have to get voter approval for next year's budget if a tax hike exceeds a state-imposed cap.
Hamburg eliminated funding for driver education in a proposed 2007-08 budget to avoid a referendum on its budget in the May primary.
The proposed $32.1 million budget calls for a 1.65-mill tax hike.
Adjusted for a bond issue write-off, the net increase is 0.3 percent below the 1-mill cap imposed by the ...