Taxpayers in the California Area School District will see a tax increase for the 2020-21 school year. At Monday’s meeting, the board voted to raise taxes by .88 mills, which works out to around an additional $100 per year for a home assessed at $120,000. The board’s business manager, Mary Burfurd, cited a lower tax collection rate and a missing in-lieu-of-taxes payment from the Student Association at Cal U as the main shortfalls. Balancing the nearly $16-million-dollar budget also called for one teaching position to be cut and the elimination of two part-time teacher aides. However, 13 of 14 teachers originally furloughed will be called back. The school has not unveiled their COVID-19 return to school plan as of yet.