Tax Increase for MV Schools?

By this time last year, the "stop the school and do nothing else" board of education had already said no tax increases and had published their resolution to not exceed the 4.1% Act I increase cap.

As we all know, they DEcreased taxes for 2008-2009 through one-time gimmicks like bond defeasement and first time draconian cuts in other line items. Yes, we were the only district in Bucks to decrease taxes.

Now for the 2009-2010 budget cycle, where's the triumphal crowing and cackling about saving the taxpayer money? Where's the resolution to keep the tax increase low?

I hear rumor that the Emperor has identified a sizeable gap in THIS year's budget and that next year's budget increase will be a whopper. This is BEFORE the teacher pension fund issues that he's already identified as being a 35 mill tax increase for 2010-2011 and beyond.

Does anyone have the inside story? [Shout out to the departed Reba Dunford who said this would happen.]