SOUTH OTSELIC – The only school budget in Chenango County to be shot down on May 16 will go to the voters again today with small revisions. The school board brings the revised budget forward hoping to make-up a 31 vote deficit.

On state budget day, voters of the Otselic Valley Central School District rejected a $7,839,634 budget that reflected a 4.97 percent increase in expenditures and an 8.29 percent increase in the tax levy. The measure was defeated, 103 to 134. The revised budget voted on today reflects small changes, with $20,000 less to be spent overall. The drivers’ education program has been removed for the 2006 year.

The new $7,819,634 budget offers a 4.7 percent increase over last year’s expenditures. The proposed tax levy is $2,514,513, or 7.43 percent higher than last year.