Steel+Valley+taxes+increase+in+2011-12+budget

=By Anne Cloonan= =//Published in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette//= =//6/29/11//= = = = = = = = = =The Steel Valley school board Tuesday night passed a $24,467,184 expenditures budget for the 2011-2012 school year that will raise taxes by 0.45 mills, to 24.52 mills.= =Revenue in the 2011-2012 school year is projected to be $25,649,164.= = The board also voted to bring back some of the 40.5 employees who were furloughed in May, including social studies teacher Mark Fallon, who was restored to a full-time position, and elementary school counselor Brandi Chalus , who was rehired for a half-time position. = = One fifth-grade teaching position at Parks Elementary School was also restored, as well as one part-time district-wide music position. = =Steel Valley superintendent William Kinavey said the positions were restored after district personnel drawing up class schedules saw there would be 34 students per class in fifth grade at Parks Elementary. District business manager Mark Cherpak said estimates showed there would be too many students taking music for the teachers remaining.= =Money for the salaries of the rehired employees was taken from other areas of the budget, Mr. Cherpak said.= =Read more: [] = = = = = =News= =home=