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Just to be safe, we file for exemptions.” There are a lot of things outside our control. But you start the budget process in October with very little known. “All you have to do is complete the form. Springfield's budget chief, Ken King, said the reason is simple. Still, seeking exemptions from the Pennsylvania Department of Education has become a familiar move for many of state’s 500 public school districts. By June, after months of budget wrangling and numbers crunching, Springfield adopted a 2016-2017 budget with a tax increase that fell under the limit and didn’t use its state-approved waiver. Yet the district sought approval to circumvent, if needed, the annual state-mandated amount that the district could raise taxes. In Springfield Township, Montgomery County, school district officials began the year with more than $21 million in the bank, including millions in reserve accounts dedicated to future costs like pension liability and special education.
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