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At the beginning of the May 20th Montrose borough meeting, adoption of the agenda was the first item of business. This was completed with a few additions.

The Montrose Restoration Committee had requested a donation, the standard $350, for the summer beautification project. Ms. Skinner asked if the crew helped with the baskets. It was responded that they did not, they just helped water them. It was motioned and approved to grant this request.

The Blue Ridge School Board met on May 20th for a brief business meeting followed by a workshop. The business session agenda listed only 6 items, including some personnel assignments and long lists of budget transfers and adjustments. The Board also chose Loren Small as its Secretary, with a 4-year term. The elephant on the agenda was the budget for next year, a spending package totaling just under $17 million, up $1.2 million from the current year. The new budget is available for review for a month, after which the Board will formally adopt it, presumably at a business meeting on June 24, 2013.

Using a new program developed by a Penn State professor, Business Manager Loren Small provided a concise summary of the budget, which the Board has been working on for several months. Aside from contractual salary increases, the biggest jumps were for contributions to the state pension fund; additional special education and vocational-technical services; and supplies. Total revenue from all sources is expected to be up by almost $600,000. The budget is balanced in part by drawing on the anticipated fund balance at the end of the current year, as well as contributions from a few other special accounts. Not to mention a property tax rate increase of 1.1 mills, for a total millage of 46.99.

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