Local briefs
May 12, 2005 Officials to visit
Gov. Ed Rendell has announced that superintendents and other administrators will be in Uniontown today to urge school boards to opt into Act 72, the Homeowner Tax Relief Act, by May 30.
The meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m. at the Fayette County Public Service Building in the Commissioners Conference Room.
Dr. Tom Winters, deputy secretary of administration for the Pennsylvania Department of Education; Dr. Jim Barker, superintendent of the School District of the City of Erie; and Allen Kukovich, director of the Governor’s Southwest Office, will host the information session with school directors and administrators.
“Providing much needed property tax relief to homeowners throughout Pennsylvania remains a top priority for me and my administration,” Rendell said. “Reducing property taxes by an average of $330 across the state benefits working families, seniors and those whose school property taxes have been steadily increasing over the years.”
Winters said that school districts should take advantage of this opportunity to reduce property taxes.
“Providing real property tax relief for Pennsylvania residents has been a promise that Governor Rendell has kept since he took office,” he said. “This historic legislation is what homeowners need and is also good for school districts.”
Meeting scheduled
The Bethlehem-Center Class of 1988 will hold a 20th-year class reunion meeting at 7 p.m. Friday at the Tradesman Inn on Route 40, Scenery Hill.
Anyone with ticket money and recipes for the cookbook may turn them in at this time.