North Allegheny School District to Borrow $4 Million

North Allegheny School District is raising our School Taxes this year, 4th year in a row. Now they are planning to borrow $4 Million to add to the $125 Million Debt:

http://northallegheny.patch.com/articles/north-allegheny-to-borrow-4-million-to-upgrade-the-school-district-s-technology-infrastructure?ncid=newsltuspatc00000001

North Allegheny School Board-Primary Election on May 21, 2013

Ash Marwah for North Allegheny School Board

 

I am a candidate for North Allegheny School Board. The 4^th Annual Tax

Increase this year and the ballooning Debt of $125 Million in our district

are unacceptable. That is why I am running for NA School Board.

 

Cutting spending across the board is the answer, not closing Peebles.

After increasing School Taxes for 3 years in a row, the School Board is

now considering another hefty Tax Increase in this year’s Budget. The

Preliminary Budget was approved unanimously by the School Board in Feb. 2013 with

a Tax Increase of 7.42%. Even more concerning is that the School District  is

projecting increased Taxes every year for the foreseeable future. As a Taxpayer,

it is important to know that the Budget has gone up by $50 Million in the last 12 years.

 

Please vote for me for NA School Board. I would like to help other like-

minded School Board Members stop these ever-increasing NA School Taxes.

 

Email: MarwahAsh@gmail.com

North Allegheny School District and State Funding of Education

Daryl Metcalfe is right about State Funding for Education. The money drives up salaries and thereby Pension costs. We have a living example at North Allegheny School District where our taxes keep going up every year and the Budget remains out of balance for future years also:

"When you give the money to the education establishment like this, it's like throwing it into a black hole. All it will be used for is to drive those salaries up that are continuing to be one of the main drivers for our pension problem," said state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Cranberry, a co-sponsor of House Bill 220, which earmarks liquor proceeds for infrastructure improvements.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/transportation/pennsylvania-store-sales-should-fund-roads-gop-group-says-683623/#ixzz2QcwoA1k7

North Allegheny School Board

We are 30 year residents of the NA School District and I have been involved in the Schools in one form or another all these years. My three sons were educated at NA and they have great jobs now, part of the credit goes to exceptional education at NA. I have been a soccer coach for about 10 years, member of the NA Diversity Committee for another 10 years and I am currently a Member of the Concerned Parents Group.

All along, I have followed the NA Budget and its spiralling increases. The last 12 years have really brought it into focus because of the $50 Million increase in the size of the Budget. That is $50 Million in additional taxes that is being spent to run the schools where the number of students and number of staff has not really changed much. It is now time to look at spending cuts rather than continue to increase taxes at NA. This is the 4th year in a row that NA is raising our property taxes. Enough of tax increases, now is the time to cut spending to balance the Budget.

I have experience in budgeting while running my own business for over 20 years and prior to that I served on the Budget Advisory Committee for Keystone Oaks School District also. I have a M.S. in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and I am a Registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania.

Over the years, I have provided analysis to show the School Board where all the spending can be reduced. My exchanges with the School District show that NA would like to continue to raise taxes every year for the foreseeable future rather than cut spending. That is not the way to run the School District. We have to look at the NA Budgets differently and curtail out of control spending.