Last Tuesday we learned that 14 candidates will be contesting five school board seats in three regions of the Dallastown Area School District.
Then last Thursday Dallastown's superintendent, Stewart Weinberg, put a new budget plan on the table that would not raise property taxes this year.
Are the two things related?
They most certainly are.
The new plan borrows nearly three million more dollars from the district's reserve funds and cuts 80 support positions, mainly teacher aides, from full time jobs (40 hours) to part time time jobs (20 hours).
Just a few months ago when budget plans already involved using some 1.7 million dollars in reserves, it was said that borrowing any more money would hurt the district's credit rating.
What has changed?
What has changed is the credible threat of taxpayer oriented outsider candidates who oppose Stewart Weinberg's agenda being on the ballot in the May primary...
More to come.......
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