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Total District Budget: $37,814,314 Spending Increase: 6.8 percent, or $2,408,181 Proposed Tax Levy: $33,900,488 Tax Levy Increase: 10.8 percent, or $3,305,079 Piercing Tax Cap?: Yes Projected Tax Rate: $1,399.57 per $1,000 of assessed value Tax Rate Change: $182 per $1,000 of assessed value
14 May 2024 by Staff Writer
Total District Budget: $82,885,992 Spending Increase: 4.81 percent, or $3,806,675 Proposed Tax Levy: $62,346,474 Tax Levy Increase: 8.71 percent, or $4,995,272 Piercing Tax Cap?: Yes Projected Tax Rate: $2,540 per $4,000 of assessed value Tax Rate Change: Increase of $203.48 per $4,000 of assessed value
by Staff Writer
East Hampton School District officials are asking residents to support an $82,885,992 budget for the 2024-25 school year. The spending plan — a 4.81 percent, or $3,806,675, increase from the current school year’s budget — would pierce the state’s cap on property tax increases for the first time in 10 years. It comes with an anticipated $62,346,474 levy that is $4,995,272 more than that from the current year. Because the levy is over the allowable 3.39 percent increase, passage would require 60 percent of voter approval. Programming makes up $57,638,720 of the budget, while capital expenses cost $17,179,231 and administrative ...
by Desirée Keegan
Springs School officials are putting forth a $37,814,314 budget to voters next week that would pierce the state cap on tax levy increases. The spending plan for the 2024-25 school year is 6.8 percent, or $2,408,181, more than the current year’s and comes with an anticipated levy of $33,900,488. Because the levy — with a 10.8 percent, or $3,305,079, increase — is over the allowable 2.37 percent under the state’s cap on property tax levy, the budget will require 60 percent voter approval to pass. General instruction expenditures are expected to climb 6.71 percent, or $1,505,187. Tuition, which is expected ...
by Desirée Keegan
Total District Budget: $22,554.442 Spending Increase: $812,563 or 3.74 percent Proposed Tax Levy: $18,951,851 Tax Levy Increase: $612,563 or 3.34 percent Piercing Tax Cap?: No Projected Tax Rate: $1.99 per $1,000 of assessed value Tax Rate Change: $0.04 increase per $1,000 of assessed value, or 1.01 percent
by Staff Writer
In addition to voting on the annual budget, Amagansett School District voters may decide on four additional propositions. Proposition 2 authorizes the tax levy for the Amagansett Library’s 2025 budget. The tax levy is $1,429,198, a $71,290 increase from 2024. Proposition 3 authorizes the expenditure of $95,538 from the “2015 Renovations and Upgrades” capital reserve fund for the purchase of a new school bus. Proposition 4 authorizes the expenditure of $205,000 from the “2015 Renovations and Upgrades” capital reserve fund for the restoration of the school building’s cupola. Proposition 5 authorizes reducing the mileage limitations for the transportation of resident ...
by Staff Writer
on Jan 10, 2017