{"id":3838,"date":"2017-04-30T16:08:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T21:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hulettsonlakegeorge.com\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2017-04-30T16:08:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T21:08:40","slug":"school-board-election-budget-vote-may-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3838","title":{"rendered":"School Board Election &#038; Budget Vote: May 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/Alert.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Voting for five open seats on the school board, adoption of the annual school budget and a school bus purchase resolution will take place on Tuesday, May 16th between 12:00 noon and 9:00 pm at the Gymnasium of the Junior-Senior high school building on Buckley Road in Whitehall.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposed budget the school district is proposing to increase spending by $602,383 which represents an increase of 3.92 percent from this year. The tax levy is expected to rise 2.51 percent or $133,267 with the remainder coming from increases in state taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Voters will also be asked to approve the purchase of two school buses, not to exceed the cost of $220,000.<\/p>\n<p>I expect to be sending out questionnaires  to all the candidates running for the school board in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>A public hearing will be held on Monday, May 8th at 6:00 pm for those with questions concerning the budget and\/or vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting for five open seats on the school board, adoption of the annual school budget and a school bus purchase resolution will take place on Tuesday, May 16th between 12:00 noon and 9:00 pm at the Gymnasium of the Junior-Senior high school building on Buckley Road in Whitehall. Under the proposed budget the school district &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3838\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;School Board Election &#038; Budget Vote: May 16th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-landing","category-whitehall"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}