Pat Lynch is waging another lawsuit against the Southampton Town animal shelter, the town and specific shelter officials for once again barring her from volunteering at the facility. In a... more
Eastport-South Manor School District Budget Proposal Proposed Budget: $119,194,650 Spending Increase: 2.93 percent, or $3,391,841 Proposed Tax Levy: $66,667,240 Tax Levy Increase: 2.97 percent, or $1,924,915 Piercing Tax Cap?: No Projected Tax Rate: Not provided Tax Rate Change: Not provided
by Staff Writer
Hampton Bays School District residents will be asked to vote for a $67,495,698 budget for the 2025-26 school year on Tuesday, May 20. The spending plan is a 2.16 percent, or $1,427,298, increase from the current year’s budget of $66,068,400 and comes with a 3.32 percent, or $1,650,194, tax levy increase, from $49,723,021 to $51,373,215, which is compliant with the state’s cap on tax levy increases. It maintains the district’s 18 advanced placement courses, 14 college dual-enrollment courses and lifelong learning programs, along with accelerated coursework and math and science, computer science principals, science research and robotics at the secondary ...
by Desirée Keegan
Eastport-South Manor School District voters will decide on a tax-cap compliant budget on Tuesday, May 20, and also cast votes in the Board of Education race, in which three incumbents are running unopposed. The plan for 2025-26 calls for a 2.93 percent increase in spending overall, bringing the annual budget up to $119,194,650. While administrative and instructional spending will increase by slightly more than 1 percent, capital expenditures are slated to rise 9.07 percent, to $27,935,223. The budget adds a new Spanish teacher to expand the elementary school Spanish language program to grade five and adds a librarian and two ...
by Brendan J. O’Reilly
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Rohma Abbas on Sep 15, 2010