{"id":9462,"date":"2014-04-08T08:40:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T12:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=9462"},"modified":"2014-04-08T08:40:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T12:40:25","slug":"tentative-jps-2014-2015-budget-calls-for-1-31-percent-increase-to-tax-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/tentative-jps-2014-2015-budget-calls-for-1-31-percent-increase-to-tax-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tentative JPS 2014-2015 Budget Calls for 1.31 Percent Increase to Tax Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jamestown<\/a>JAMESTOWN – For the first time in four years, the Jamestown school board<\/strong> is looking at a tax increase for property owners. According to an article in today\u2019s Jamestown<\/a> Post-Journal<\/em>, the school district is looking at a proposed increase in the tax levy of 1.31 percent for its 2014-15 budget<\/strong>. Officials say the increase is needed to help close a $600,000 budget gap for next year. The property tax hike would cover about a third of the spending gap.<\/p>\n

The remaining two-thirds would mostly be through staff reductions, which would save the district just over $400,000. \u00a0For the staff reductions, just one full-time position would be cut. The remaining positions would be retirements or part-time positions.\u00a0 The full-time position would be a certified occupational therapy assistant. The remaining full-time positions involve three elementary teacher retirements and one guidance councilor retirement.<\/p>\n

The final preliminary budget would total $73,875,000, which is an increase of about $506,000 from the current school year.<\/p>\n

School officials say some small adjustments could be made before the vote it finalized. The board is expected to act on the budget during its April 22 voting session. A public hearing on the spending proposal will take place beforehand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JAMESTOWN – For the first time in four years, the Jamestown school board is looking at a tax increase for property owners. According to an article in today\u2019s Jamestown Post-Journal, the school district is looking at a proposed increase in the tax levy of 1.31 percent for its 2014-15 budget. Officials say the increase is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Tentative JPS 2014-2015 Budget Calls for 1.31 Percent Increase to Tax Levy","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[3319,1158,1168],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/jps-log-feature.png?fit=332%2C190&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-2sC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9463,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462\/revisions\/9463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}