OV budget up for approval again today
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.
District Superintendent Lawrence Thomas said the district used an exit poll at the time of the original vote and one of the questions in it pertained to what voters would like to see done if the original budget was shot down. He said the most popular answer was for the school board to rework the original budget and represent it with small revisions.
“We are trying to listen to our voters and that is what we are going to do,” he said.
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.
District Superintendent Lawrence Thomas said the district used an exit poll at the time of the original vote and one of the questions in it pertained to what voters would like to see done if the original budget was shot down. He said the most popular answer was for the school board to rework the original budget and represent it with small revisions.
“We are trying to listen to our voters and that is what we are going to do,” he said.
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