$75M Pottsgrove budget draft would raise taxes 2.1%

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$75M Pottsgrove budget draft would raise taxes 2.1%

LOWER POTTSGROVE — Taxpayers in the Pottsgrove School District are facing a 2.1 percent tax hike if the $74.9 million proposed final budget adopted April 9 is adopted unchanged in May. For a home assessed at the district median of $120,000, a 2.1 percent tax hike means an annual tax bill increase of $101. Departing Finance Director Deborah Klahold, who is leaving to take a job in another district, told the board that the state’s Act 1 index for …