Superintendent Will Retire, Tax Rate Lowered in Moon Area

Moon Area Superintendent Donna K. Milanovich will retire June 28 after 38 years in education.

Milanovich started as a second-grade teacher in Moon. She also served as the chief administrator with the Baldwin-Whitehall School District before returning to Moon as superintendent in 2007, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.

In 2011, the board awarded Milanovich a five-year contract ending in 2017. (See attached PDF.)

In other business last week, the school board adopted a preliminary budget that would lower the property tax rate for residents of Moon and Crescent townships from 21.3 to 17.9977 mills. The proposed decrease would offset increased revenues from the Allegheny County reassessment, according to the Post-Gazette.

Taxpayers who own a house valued at $155,000, the median value in Moon Area, would pay $2,790 in property taxes for 2013-14, prior to the Act 1 homestead reduction, if the budget is adopted at the June 24 meeting, the newspaper reports.

The approximately 7,400 Moon and Crescent property owners who filed for the homestead exemption would see a reduction of $129.29 in their tax bills because of the distribution of state gambling revenues.

To find out more details about these and other board actions from last week's meeting on the Post-Gazette, click here.

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