Preliminary School Budget 2022-23 - Still the Same-old Bloated, Out-of-Control $pending Pot of Money

 Well, looks like they introduced the above-mentioned school budget they're sending down to the County Super. Unlucky for you that you can't see it and won't be able to see it until probably sometime in April, after the County Super approves it. Even, after they get County Super approval, and they show you the Public Budget and the 'User Friendly' Budget they put up on their website - it's Not the same school budget they send down to the County Super.

Recognize while they're touting a zero tax increase budget, $pending is $300,461,684, which is up $14,864,520 or 5.2%. They didn't reduce any $pending in this school budget and the only benefit you see is due to increase in the Ratables.

They're infamous hoarders and while they start thanking the world for the increase in state aid this year, recognize that our increase this year was basically the same state aid increase we got last year, which was less a % increase than it was last year.

In summary, this school budget comes with a school tax rate of $3.197 Per Hundred, which is down 3-cents from last year's rate of $3.227. So, if you live in that imaginary home assessed at $181,400, they your school tax will be $5,798 and your school tax decrease will be $56 - solely due to the increase in the Ratables and Not due to any $pending reductions.

So, it's a good time to remind you about these school budgets and how they're done and how they become such Bloated Pots of Money year-after-year. Here's a bunch of things you should know about these school budgets from comments about last year's school budget:

Here's a simple calculator that will show you what this school budget does to your school tax. Just enter your home's assessed value:

Anyhoo, when they let you see what they want to show you for this school budget, then you'll see what's going on here.