Thirty taxpayer groups, hundreds of attendees, and millions of concerned homeowners supported the Save Our Homes rally at the Pennsylvania State Capital. They are not happy with meaningless tax relief schemes from Harrisburg. They want real tax reform.
Citizens throughout the state packed the Rotunda in support of House Bill 1275, Elimination of School Property Taxes.
The video clip will give a sense of the rally attendance and flavor.
Representative Samuel E. Rohrer, the chief bill architect is surrounded by the bill sponsors and taxpayers.
Was Mr. Kessler in attendance?
ReplyDeleteYes.
ReplyDeleteHowever, O'Pake, Santoni, Caltigirone were not standing on the steps supporting HB 1275 as Representative Rohrer spoke.
With the prospect of sky high home heating oil and natural gas, rising food prices and increased property taxes, my heart goes out to senior citizens on fixed income. We might not be able to do much about the first two issues but property taxes can be controlled for now and eliminated in the future.
ReplyDeleteRS
"With the prospect of sky high home heating oil and natural gas, rising food prices and increased property taxes, my heart goes out to senior citizens on fixed income."
ReplyDeleteI am sure this must have been the motivation of the feel-gooders as they raised seniors taxes higher with new field lights.
i have a friend who has a 26yr old daughter that just recieved a letter from soc. sec. stating there will no longer be any money for people in her age brsacket and younger!
ReplyDeletethis is very concerning to me, and i don't know what to do about it!
"i have a friend who has a 26yr old daughter that just recieved a letter from soc. sec. stating there will no longer be any money for people in her age brsacket and younger!
ReplyDeletethis is very concerning to me, and i don't know what to do about it!"
For starters, you might approach a "parent" who thinks sports is more important than education when it comes to spending your tax dollars. A good education for everyone gets good jobs to help pay for her social security.
According to the Social Security Administration website, a person who is 26 years old this year will see their benefits reduced by 22% in 2041 unless reforms are made before then. They did not say there would be no benefits available. Go to their website and check for yourself.
ReplyDeleteSocial security coming to an end in the not too distant future
ReplyDelete"this is very concerning to me, and i don't know what to do about it!"
Well I'll tell you what NOT to do is to NOT vote for Obamma for President. Imagine a more socialist liberal than even the Clintons. If you thought Hilliary was a tornado as a first lady, get ready for hurricane Michelle Obamma. She rip the roofs off all our houses!
Teacher pensions are guaranteed to go up 8% a year. If they do not local taxes make up the difference. A person receiving social security does not get 8% increases, but they must pay for the teacher golden parachutes. A school board member voted for his wife's pay increase. Her pension will increase as a result.
ReplyDeleteWhere's the board meeting on the 11th?
ReplyDeleteThe price of energy is skyrocketing. So what do five board members do, vote to install energy gobbling lights to a track. Time for pay to play.
ReplyDelete5 days with no comments. Is that a record? Maybe we will have some comments after the school board meeting tonight.
ReplyDeleteBoard Meeting - June 11, 2008
ReplyDeleteA number of motions consisted of approving the 2008-2009 budget; the millage, per capita, residence, earned income taxes and the real estate transfer tax.
In addition, Mary Ann McCarthy was appointed Oley Valley School District Treasurer and she will be paid $750.00. John Stott was appointed the district solicitor. He will receive an $11,000.00 retainer and $120.00 per hour for additional work.
Several students appealed to the board to rehire a teacher they felt deserved to keep his position. They presented information to the board to support their position. There was no action taken by the board on their request.
The board voted to cancel a Combined Committee Meeting on July 9, 2008 and replace it with a “workshop” function with administrators. All school board members and administrators plan to attend and have “discussions”. When asked if the public was invited to attend, board president Robert Heckman said no.
Although there was no review, the policy committee chairperson, Robert Cappa presented second readings on Public Records access.
The state passed new laws concerning public meetings and records to make school districts more transparent.
The policy committee appears to be headed in the opposite direction of the legislation’s intent and process.
They added twenty-six more exemptions to the old policy of four exclusions to public records requests.
The Pentagon has $3,000 toilet seats. OVSD has a $2,000,000,000 bill to build a track.
ReplyDeleteActually it's only 2,000,000
ReplyDelete"Actually it's only 2,000,000"
ReplyDeleteYou are correct, but the family barely able to afford paying property taxes, it might as well be 2,000,000,000.
Al said, "Although there was no review, the policy committee chairperson, Robert Cappa presented second readings on Public Records access."
ReplyDeleteAl, were you at the policy comittee meetings where policy is discussed? I think your personal animosity toward Dr.Cappa is showing.
A taxpayer voting for Barrack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.
ReplyDeleteGet ready to be slaughtered.
No bids for food, no bids for gas because the companies do not know what their prices are going to be, and they don't want to put themselves out of business,
ReplyDeleteYET THE OLEY SCHOOL BOARD VOTES TO ERECT $300,000 LIGHTS FOR AN ATHLETIC FIELD, DO EXTENSIVE REPAIRS ON THE GYMNASIUM, BUILD AN AG ADDITION TO THE SCHOOL -
PUTTING THE TAXPAYERS OUT OF BUSINESS!!!!!!!!!
Five members of this school board don't get it, PRODDED ALONG BY A SUPERINTEDENT WHO WANTS THE WORLD AT EVERYONE ELSE'S EXPENSE.
We are at crisis time in this country, only Oley School District fails to realize it. This time, Oley won't be 10 years behind the times. We'll be the first to go down.
"Al said, "Although there was no review, the policy committee chairperson, Robert Cappa presented second readings on Public Records access."
ReplyDeleteAl, were you at the policy comittee meetings where policy is discussed? I think your personal animosity toward Dr.Cappa is showing."
The policy regarding public records access may have been discussed at the committee level.
They were presented to the board for their review at the board meeting by committee chairman Robert Cappa.
There was no discussion by the board of these policies.
Yeah, Al that's right. The discussion was at the comittee meeting. These are public meetings. You could have been there. The board spends hours and hours at these comittee meetings going over and discussing in public all these issues. Do you think the board has to review every topic at every regular meeting just to get you up to speed?
ReplyDeleteSpending hours and hours at committe meetings -
ReplyDeletethis could only come from a board member. I have been at committee meetings and they definitely do not spend "hours and hours".
They also do not discuss the first and second readings so that the public can understand, and they will not give out copies of these readings until the entire board sees the readings, and they are then to be discussed at the regular board meetings, which usually does not happen. The readings (on paper) are only put out at the regular board meetings.
I have already asked to see the typewritten copy of a second reading at a committee meeting and have been denied.
"this could only come from a board member. "
ReplyDeleteProbably Cappa.
What happened at the school board last night? How much did our property tax go up? I did not see anything in the paper today.
ReplyDeleteIt will probably be in Friday's paper. Rarely do we make Thursday's paper unless Oley did something stupid again.
ReplyDeleteWhat's going on here with your blog Al? Hardly any comments. Looks like you and Cindy don't even talk to each other any more. (or Cindy talking to herself) Do I have to provoke you two into throwing rocks at the school district? I guess everything is Oley is going OK.
ReplyDelete"Do I have to provoke you two into throwing rocks at the school district?"
ReplyDeleteThanks tax and spender but the district provides enough rocks to throw by themselves.
I think you people are burning yourselves out! ;)
ReplyDelete....a slooowwww smolder!
ReplyDeleteNice try.
ReplyDeleteBottom line is that you like spending other people's money.
PURE GREED at its worst.
One thing "you people" will never do is burn ourselves out. The issues are too important and the consequences too grave to allow that.
ReplyDeleteHello concerned Oley bloggers -
ReplyDeleteIf your vast network of OCC informants and nitpickers is so accurate with information and the "facts", why can't you tell us if taxes went up or not, how much, who voted which way, when are the lights going up, when are they starting the gym renovation, what is the dug up dirt behind the high school where the green house was?
Someone said they are going to all full day kindergarten. Are you going to make me call a school board member to get answers? The stupid Reading Eagle has had nothing in about our taxes.
OCC, help us out here!
You have an odd way of asking for help. Call the OCC nitpickers and informants and then want answers to your questions? Why not call a school board member if you want the "facts"? In fact, why don't you go to a board meeting, get up, and ask those questions to the whole board? I'm sure then you would get the accurate information and "facts" that you are looking for.
ReplyDelete10:02:
ReplyDeleteTypical new wave Oley person.
They want everyone else to do their work, and then pay for it too!
Gas prices going to the moon, food prices not far behind...and the district plans...pi@# $2,000,000 dollars on feel good. Is busing and food required by the state? I know sports are not.
ReplyDelete"You have an odd way of asking for help. Call the OCC nitpickers and informants and then want answers to your questions?"
ReplyDeleteHey OCC humorless person, that's called sarcasm.
Senator O’Pake’s recent newsletter indicated his solution to property tax reform is to raise state income taxes.
ReplyDeleteHis scheme resembles the populist “tax the rich” gambit, in this case earnings over $100,000. He does not disclose whether this is household or individual income.
But like most ploys, it fails the test of reality. Taxing people over $100,000 will not pay for school property tax reform. He will have to lower the standard considerably to the point where the burden falls on the middle class, Surprise!
It is ironic the senator choose to raise income taxes in light of the fact he opposed Act 50 which had the same feature. At that time, he called the act’s feature “flawed”.
Representative Rohrer’s solution to eliminate property taxes, which O’Pake opposes, has been vetted for nearly five years. The senator’s plan has not seen any public analyzing nor state wide support from the taxpayer groups.
Did the board adopt a new budget? Where was it reported? What was the millage increase? It's not even reported on the district website. Hello.........is anyone out there?
ReplyDeleteSo I guess no one knows or no one cares.
ReplyDeleteHey 7:38:
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you place a call to the district to find out?
I'm sorry, I thought this blog could provide information concerning the district but I guess all it's good for is to criticize and complain.
ReplyDelete"I'm sorry, I thought this blog could provide information concerning the district but I guess all it's good for is to criticize and complain."
ReplyDeleteThe drive-by posters are not interested in blog news because they always attack it.
Fact, drive up to the high school, get out of your car, walk up to the new track, lie face down on the field and smell $2,000,000 of wasted tax dollars. Then call the board members who voted for this toy and ask them how they will pay for high gas and food prices. Fact, a synthetic field cannot be made into fuel or food.
Board members or system-feeders stirring the pot again.
ReplyDeleteGuess what - THE POT IS EMPTY, THE TAXPAYERS HAVE NO MONEY - AND THIS STILL IS NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU MONEY-GRUBBING LOSERS!
a sloooowwww sizzle!! pssssst
ReplyDelete"Fact, a synthetic field cannot be made into fuel or food.
ReplyDelete8:36 AM, June 27, 2008"
True. I am certain that school bus transportation to school and back is not required by the state. So I'm OK with ending it. I'll also gladly send my kid with his own lunch. I'm not complaining and I don't want to pay for everyone elses freebies.
PS: Please do not re-elect Mike O'Pake to the state Senate. He is one of the main Democtat reasons this whole state is a giant mess.
Actually school bus transportation is required by federal law
ReplyDeleteActually you are wrong. Bus transportation is not required.
ReplyDeleteI believe a school policy states that they ad here to federal regulation on transportation. Transportation required for more than 2 miles. Of course less than 2 miles is o.k.
ReplyDeleteFood service is questionable. Lunchtime, I believe is required, but hot lunches may not be part of the requirement.
Food service was not a budgeted item. The cafeterias were run as seperate, offbudget, self-sustaining operations. In fact, it was operated profitably for many years. I don't know if it still is but if it isn't that's another matter that should be dealt with. If the budget needs paring down it won't come from that area.
ReplyDeleteDoes it really help anything calling board members "money grubbing losers"? Try to remember that there are some on the board who are on your side. Why alienate them?
Good point Russ. The name callers who hate the board can't recognize anything positive regardless of who is on the school board. They like to paint every board member with the same brush. If they really pay attention, like they claim to, they would try to encourage any positive movement on the board. Maybe OCC should keep score of who votes which way and remind voters come election time. Post major issue votes here in some standing part of this blog.
ReplyDeleteMajor issues like teacher contract, football, new track, turf, lights, high school gym renovations, the science building add-on project, the budget.
I got my present in the mail today. A slight (app. $100) net decrease from last year.
ReplyDelete"Food service was not a budgeted item. The cafeterias were run as seperate, offbudget, self-sustaining operations. In fact, it was operated profitably for many years. I don't know if it still is but if it isn't that's another matter that should be dealt with."
ReplyDeleteAccording to the district audits of 2005 and 2007, the enterprise food service fund showed operating loses of $176,182 and $168,065 respectively.
Were it not for federal and state subsidies, the fund would not show a profit.
There are companies that will run food service and guarantee a profit. Their menu selection is as good if not better than current systems.
The district showed little or no interest in this suggestion.
Come one, come all!!
ReplyDeleteTonight at the 1.7 million dollar Oley School Sports Complex
See how bright the lights will shine as Zackon gets turned on by his lights. First time so see in the dark. Not sure the time, but evening or twilight for sure.
And Bob Heckman said, "Let there be light!"
Wyomissing taxpayers pounded the school board's proposal to waste millions on a new school in the recent referendum vote. Too bad Oley did not have the same opportunity to vote on whether to waste $2,000,000 on an athletic complex.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone else see the expensive glow in the sky over Oley last night? Looked like the light glistening off a pile of silver coins piled in a field.
ReplyDeleteI though Heckman said lights would be no cost to the taxpayers.
Then why did my millage go up again this year?
The OVSD solution to the energy crisis, build stadium lights to use enormous amounts of energy.!?
ReplyDeleteNot a word in five days. Are the six people who comment on this blog all on vacation or isn't there anything to complain about?
ReplyDeleteLooks like OCC had a lot to do with Oley being one of the lower millage districts in the county. Thank you.
ReplyDelete10:55
ReplyDeleteYou always give yourself away Doc.
OCC was not THE reason for OVSD placing lower in taxes, but it is always a good idea to have a watchdog.
ReplyDeleteI would give some of the credit and thanks to the newest board members who seem to realize the importance of fiscal responsibility. They are the real watchdogs of the board.
ReplyDeleteUSA Today:
ReplyDelete"Schools Cutting Bus Service Because of Fuel"
Extracurricular activities are on the top of the list to be eliminated. Parents, students, and booster groups should start paying for their entertainment. Welcome to reality Oley.
Should start paying and will start paying are two different things. It will not happen in Oley. Bet your farm on it.
ReplyDeleteOley's contributions to the county: a swat team dealing with a monkey on the school roof, a bomb placed on a property, an embezzler convicted of swindling millions from homeowners. Oh, that's right, we have a synthetic field with big lights!?
ReplyDeleteSix and a half days wwith no comments. Is it time to pull the plug on this blog? It has become irrelevant.
ReplyDelete"Six and a half days wwith no comments. Is it time to pull the plug on this blog? It has become irrelevant."
ReplyDeleteI bet the tax and spending, feel gooders, at others expense, would love to see this blog disappear.
It already has...
ReplyDeleteNot quite.
ReplyDeleteFind it very interesting that the wife of a school board member is now going to be on the payroll.
Certainly doesn't look good, and if it doesn't look good, it's not good.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
They are just carrying on business as usual. Conflict of interest? They could care less.
ReplyDeleteThis blog angers Oley leftists whether there are comments or no comments.
ReplyDelete"This blog angers Oley leftists whether there are comments or no comments."
ReplyDeleteSo true. They hate anything that proves them wrong.
How about the $7,000,000 or so that the Oley School District has (cash money), that is deposited in one bank. Actually now with the tax bills out, it could be more than $7,000,000. This is per the audit from 10/08.
ReplyDeleteThis means that only $103,000 of those millions are insured by the FDIC.
Hope those millions aren't in the Wachovia Bank!
Oley only uses 2 depositories.
Scary thought.
Of course Oley isn't worried, the current economic news will only hit the valley in about 2018. The district thinks we all have printing presses in our basements.
"This means that only $103,000 of those millions are insured by the FDIC."
ReplyDeleteI will not be paying any taxes for incompetence!
Will someone please blow up this blog and put it out of its misery?
ReplyDeleteBOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat article in Pottstown Mercury about the difference between liberals and conservatives.
ReplyDeleteBottom line, liberalism creates social and personal decay. Liberals always have their hand out and they care only for themselves.
These tax and spenders feast on our tax dollars in the name of others.
"BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
ReplyDeleteThis is the sound of a liberal school district's failed educational system falling flat on its face as it sends people into the world unprepared.
Money is not the problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GREAT POST 11:09!
ReplyDeleteNo, the problem is all the TOYS the superintendent wants.
He thinks that all these TOYS make him look like he knows what he is doing.
Hopefully all our tax dollars that the district is collecting is not going into the Wachovia pot!
Which bank is next?
Public beware.
Hope all have seen the Special Session Hall of SHAME with 222 Pennsylvania representatives and senators making up the membership list.
ReplyDeleteO'Pake, Kessler, Santoni, and shame on you Sam Rohrer and Jess Stairs, etc., etc., etc.
Wow! You people really are a sad bunch! I hope you find some happiness in your life, because you're sure not finding it on this pathetic blog!
ReplyDelete1. If you don't like the blog don't read it.
ReplyDelete2. "You people" A dead giveaway that you are one of the condescending, know-it-alls who never met a tax they didn't like or a program not worth funding.
3. How do you know whether or not we find happiness on this blog? I'm not sure you even know what happiness is. You sound bitter. Another condescending comment from someone who thinks they are superior to the rest of us.
The following is part of a written response I received from OPakes office: For over 10 years I have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation proposing various remedies to eliminate school prperty taxes. Unfortunately, in the Senate, the controlling Republican majority has refused to consider any of my bills or, for that matter, anybody else's property tax elimination proposals. Can any one out there explain where we are with school property tax elimination and is OPake speaking the truth regarding the Republicans?
ReplyDeleteO'Pake blames Republicans for his failure to bring about property tax reform. His plan would destroy families.
ReplyDeleteMost Republicans are busy doing nothing.
Homeowners get the back of the hand in Harrisburg.
Vote for people committed to tax reform not pretenders.
Looks like Conrad Weiser's synthetic track did a lot for their PSSA scores!
ReplyDeleteWill Oley follow in their footsteps?
PSSA 2008 Math and Reading OVSD 11th Grade Results:
ReplyDeleteMath: 43.5% were not Proficient
Reading: 22.10% were not Proficient
The district has let these students down. Perhaps, the administration and the board majority should prioritize spending in a more responsible manner.
You could also say the 88% were proficient in reading. But that might sound too good.
ReplyDelete"You could also say the 88% were proficient in reading. But that might sound too good."
ReplyDeleteThank you school board member, teacher, administrator, or apologist?
"You could also say the 88% were proficient in reading. But that might sound too good."
ReplyDeleteAnd herein lies the problem: 100% (Perfect PSSA Score)- 22% (Oley PSSA not proficient student scores) = 78% not 88%. I will write it out another way
100-22= 78
I can see why we did worse in math on PSSA. How did the other grades fair on the test?
I really hope that a member of the administration, a teacher or a school board member did not do the math, if so someone needs to look at the budget for simple subtraction errors.
All schools cheat on the test anyway.
ReplyDeleteThese scores don't matter because the whole system is rigged from the Department of Education on down.
Very sad situation.
I think if Oley cheated they would have scored better, one would think the test is pretty well monitored so that wouldn't happen, I mean we are talking about the the PA government, do you think they would let soemone get away with cheating? They would spend taxpayer money to find out who cheated and then spend more taxpayer money to litigate as well.
ReplyDeletefor that matter if every school cheated then philly and every other city school district would not get low scores on the tests everyone would have high scores.
ReplyDeleteYou obviously don't know too much about the PSSA test and its history.
ReplyDelete9:51 PM, August 27, 2008
ReplyDelete“someone”
11:21 AM, August 20, 2008
“You could also say the 88% were proficient in reading. But that might sound too good.”
(22.1% non-proficient does not equal 88% proficient)
It appears the Math challenged school apologist has a problem with English, as well. The defenders of failure do not have any credibility. A new field is their measure of proficient. The children will suffer for this six-pack mentality.
It's good to see that the blog is not dead. Now that school has opened the anti-district posts can resume.
ReplyDeleteNote to the person who wrote 88% instead of 78%: You are dealing with people here who never made a mistake or mis-spoke. They are always right and will bash anyone who tries to go against them. They are drowning in negativism.
8:19:
ReplyDeleteAs you are thriving picking our pockets!
please enlighten me and give me a history of PSSA and ALL of the cheating that goes on. If it was happening, it would be all over the news. This has to be monitored, why do schools have to give it if it is not monitored by the state or taken seriously enough by schools? Com'on now, lets deal in reality, if Oley cheated, knowing them, the scores would be 100% not 78 and 66% proficient. Are our tax dollars being used properly? or are we the cash cow for a good ole' boy network that consists of school district employees with six figure salaries. By the way, how many employees does Oley have that are over six figures (for the commoner, that means over $100,000 a year for being manager or in middle management).
ReplyDeleteDo those test scores warrant those salaries? My personal opinion is that they do not.
Visit the PDE newsroom site and click on Recent Teacher Certification Actions. Also, some of the cheating was all over the news a few years ago - you must have missed it.
ReplyDeleteOley even admitted to "altering the tests" at a board meeting, but for some reason they got away with it. Oley was "reprimanded" by the Department of Education. Oley officials know what they did and they also know that it was WRONG.
The PSSA's also have something to do with OBE. In case you don't know what that means - OUTCOME BASED EDUCATION.
I meant cheating on this test, the 2008 test, I was not aware of the cheating or altering in the past by Oley, that is sad. The website you recommended just proves my point that the test is monitored by the state. It is like a state policemen who catches a speeder, do they catch every speeder? I guess it is the same with this test, but why cheat to get average scores? unless the education is so bad that cheating is the only way to accomplish medicroidty.
ReplyDeleteAlso aren't school officals salaries public knowledge? I wasn't sure if that information ghas to be made public yearly or what. The information I have seen is from 2006 (stopteacherstrikes.com) that information is no longer valid. I just want to know where Oley tax money is going besides a new gym and track, is that money making wallets fat? I bet it is.
State and federal funding are tied to PSSA test scores. However, opposite of common sense. The better you do, the LESS you get. Therefore, if cheating was a conscious thought, it would be to cheat to do poorly!.
ReplyDeleteThe issue a few years ago with the PSSA was an example beauracracy at its finest. Apparently kids wrote answers outside the designated lines, and teachers requested that they re-write their answers, smaller inside the lines. In the end, per this explanation, the scores haveen't changed, just more PDE employees could justify their paycheck for the day. It also allowed a slew a negativity to be meaninglessly spewed!
Oley Valley School Board
ReplyDeleteBoard Members:
Robert A. Heckman - President
Ralph C. Richard - Vice President
Mary Anne McCarthy - Treasurer
Carl J. Kubitz, Jr. - Member
Dr. Robert J. Cappa - Member
John C. Bieber - Member
Christopher M. Hannum - Member
Stephen S. Burns - Member
David M. Maloney, Sr. - Member
Janet E. Keehn, Secretary - Non- Member
John M. Stott, Esq. - Solicitor
2. A motion was made by Mr. Richard, seconded by Mr. Hannum, to
ReplyDeleteadopt the following tax resolutions:
• “Be it resolved that a tax shall be levied upon all real estate situated
in the Oley Valley School District at the rate of 23.82 mills on the
assessed valuation of all property taxable for school purposes; said
taxes shall be for the purpose of providing for the payment of salaries
for the teaching and supervisory staff, the payment of rentals due any
municipal authority, the payment of sinking fund charges, the
payment of amortization of a bond issue, and any and all other
proper and necessary expenses for the operation of said School
District. Said rate of millage shall be equivalent to $23.82 on each
$1,000.00 of assessed value of taxable property. The amount of
anticipated revenue from this tax will be approximately
$15,453,804.00.” (net of homestead/farmstead exclusions)
Real Estate Tax
Levy 2008-2009
• “Be it resolved that a Five Dollar ($5.00) per capita tax be levied
upon each resident or inhabitant over the age of eighteen (18) years,
residing in the Oley Valley School District for the fiscal year 2008-
2009 in accordance with P.L. 30, Article 6, Section 679, as amended.
It is estimated that the amount of revenue from this tax will amount to
approximately $44,000.00.”
Per Capita Tax Levy
2008-2009
• “Be it resolved that the $5.00 Residence Tax enacted by the Oley
Valley School District for the fiscal year 2007-08 and levied upon
each resident or inhabitant over the age of eighteen (18) years
residing therein be re-enacted by the Board of Directors for the Oley
Valley School District effective July 1, 2008, for the fiscal year 2008-
2009, without any change. It is estimated that the amount of revenue
from this tax will amount to approximately $44,000.00. This
Resolution is passed in accordance with Act 511 which amended Act
481 of 1947.
Residence Tax
2008-2009
June 18, 2008
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• “Be it resolved that the one per cent (1%) Earned Income Tax
enacted by the Oley Valley School District for the fiscal year 2007-08
be re-enacted by the Board of Directors for the Oley Valley School
District effective July 1, 2008, for the fiscal year 2008-2009, without
any change. It is estimated that the amount of revenue from this tax
will amount to approximately $1,703,500.00. This Resolution is
passed in accordance with Act 511 which amended Act 481 of 1947.”
Earned Income Tax
2008-2009
• “Be it resolved that the one per cent (1%) Realty Transfer Tax
enacted by the Oley Valley School District for the fiscal year 2007-
2008 be re-enacted by the Board of Directors for the Oley Valley
School District effective July 1, 2008, for the fiscal year 2008-2009,
without any change. It is estimated that the amount of revenue from
this tax will amount to approximately $261,350.00. This Resolution
is passed in accordance with Act 511 which amended Act 481 of
1947.”
Realty Transfer Tax
2008-2009
Motion was followed by roll call vote with Mr. Bieber, Mr. Burns,
Dr. Cappa, Mr. Hannum, Mr. Kubitz, Mr. Maloney, Mrs. McCarthy,
Mr. Richard, and Mr. Heckman, all voting yes.
Motion approved.
Where can I get a copy of the school distict audit report from the external CPA firm? I do not see it posted anywhere?
ReplyDeleteThe school district audit is available to the public. Copies of it are in the Board Room in the administration building.
ReplyDeleteTake a look at the prior audits also.
Another FYI. Check out the Auditor General audits of the school district on the PA Auditor General website. However, no in-depth audit of day to day postings are looked at. The check runs are also very interesting.
In the past the district wrote checks to itself. Wonder where that money went?
The district wrote checks to it self? is there any explaination on where the money went?
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you just call the business office and ask them? If you aren't satisfied with the answer then go to the next board meeting and ask them publicly.
ReplyDeleteWOW - $5 million athletic site for Fleetwood. 250% more than Oley's? How did that happen?
ReplyDeleteIs Fleetwood bigger than Oley? I thought they were slightly bigger, but not a lot larger.
$5 million is a lot of money, and their community is not that much different Oley's. That is is a scary thought.
(Per Reading Eagle's story)
To 10:33 pm Aug 30th
ReplyDeleteYou left out an important tax vote from the June board meeting minutes:
1. A motion was made by Mr. Richard, seconded by Mr. Hannum, to adopt the Oley Valley School District General Fund Budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009 in the amount of $27,930,915.00 plus $400,000.00 budgetary reserve.
Motion was followed by roll call vote: Mr. Bieber – no, Mr. Burns – yes, Dr. Cappa – yes, Mr. Hannum – yes, Mr. Kubitz – yes, Mr. Maloney – yes, Mrs. McCarthy – yes, Mr. Richard, - yes, and Mr. Heckman – yes. Eight votes yes, one vote no.
10:33 Why did you leave the first one out? Trying to edit the truth or just a careless mistake?
Mr. Bieber was he only member to vote against the tax increase.
$5 million for an athletic field and not a peep out of the taxpayers in Fleetwood. I guess we know what their priorities are. Sports, sports and more sports.
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