A hearing for the 2023-2024 school year budget for the Unionville- Chadds Ford School District is scheduled for May 1, from 7-10 p.m. School directors passed a proposed preliminary budget in February and will vote in May for a proposed final budget. That proposal will be up for a vote in June.
The proposed preliminary budget, found here, anticipated revenue for the next academic year to be $109 million with $81.4 million from local sources, including almost $77 million from real estate taxes.
Millage rates proposed are 32.34 mils for Chester County property owners and 16.93 mils for property owners in Chadds Ford Township, the only Delaware County municipality in the district. The rates represent more than a 5 percent increase for both counties. (A mil is a tax of $1 for every $1,00 of assessed property value.)
School board directors have been looking at various options for the proposed final budget and findings for those options will be on the table for next month’s hearing.
Other financial matters
During the April 17 meeting, directors voted to spend $305,000 for security to upgrade the district’s access control system, $112,000 to resurface the first floor at Patton Middle School, $43,500 to replace kitchen equipment at Chadds Ford Elementary School, and a total of $35,000 to improve some flooring at CFES and at Unionville Elementary School. They also voted to spend $43,630 on a new transportation van to replace one that was totaled in an accident last winter.
About Rich Schwartzman
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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