Unionville-Chadds Ford School District directors are set to vote next week on the proposed final budget for the 2021-2022 academic year. This is the next to last budget vote before directors vote to approve the final budget in June. A property tax increase is anticipated.

As presented during the May 10 school board work session, the proposed final budget estimates revenues of almost $92.5 million-plus an additional fund balance of slightly more than $9.6 million.

Of that revenue, more than $70 million will come from local real estate taxes. Anticipated millage rates are 29.96 mils for Chester County property owners and 15.46 mils for Chadds Ford Township property owners. (A mil is a tax off $1 for every $1,000 of assessed property value.)

The Chester County rate is a 3 percent increase over last year, while the Delaware County rate is an increase of 2.6 percent. Chadds Ford is the only Delaware County municipality in the district. The millage rate difference is based on how the two counties assess property values.

The remaining income will come from state and federal sources.

Expenses for next year are estimated at $92.9 million.

For a fuller and more detailed view of the proposed final budget, go here.

The final budget vote is on June 21.

Other business

• Also coming up for votes next month are several physical plant improvements. The board will vote on an almost $20,000 tile floor replacement at Unionville High School, a more than $100,000 replacement of electrical panels and a motor control center at CF Patton Middle School, and a $16,000 expense to refinish Hillendale Elementary School’s gym divider partition.

• During a Health and Safety Plan update, Superintendent of Schools John Sanville recommended no change to the class schedules or instructional model through the end of the current school year.

He also said that more than 90 percent of the district staff had been vaccinated, and he is hopeful that the CDC will approve the Pfizer vaccination for students 12-15 years of age. That CDC vote is expected by the end of this week.

Sanville added that the district is working with other Chester County schools to hold student-only vaccination clinics.