Pittsburgh Public Schools needs to confront budget realities
Summary: The 2024 preliminary budget for Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) shows spending will outstrip revenues. This has been the case for the past several years.
Summary: The 2024 preliminary budget for Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) shows spending will outstrip revenues. This has been the case for the past several years.
In February the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled that Pennsylvania’s method of funding public education violated the state Constitution. For this fiscal year (FY)
Taxpayers in Monroeville, a suburb in the eastern part of Allegheny County and one of the County’s largest communities with more than 28,000 residents, are seeing firsthand the change in post-reassessment tax policy established by Act 71, a law passed by the General Assembly in 2005.
Discussing the Act 47 plan yesterday, Pittsburgh’s Mayor said this about the plan’s so called failsafe option of increasing taxes to fund budget shortfalls: "I
With all the tax talk of late-a possible boost in the state income tax, extending an extra percentage point on the sales tax to counties,
It has been nearly four years since the state Supreme Court struck down Allegheny County’s base year assessments. It might have to wade back into the issue based on an appeal to be filed by Washington County.
Allegheny County Council held a public hearing recently regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, better known as UPMC. Based on the motion passed by Council in November the purpose of the hearing was “…to allow the opportunity for public comment regarding the tax exempt status of property owned by [UPMC] within Allegheny County pursuant to the Institutions of Purely Public Charity Act”.
In May, the Pennsylvania Supreme court ruled that Allegheny County’s base year property tax assessment system was unconstitutional because it produces severely inequitable results, forcing
The principal effect of the moratorium on re-assessments now working its way through the Senate after having passed in the House will be to set
Notwithstanding the results of appeals, the total assessed value of real property in Allegheny County is expected to increase 35 percent when new values are