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Westchester School Budget Votes: Here's What You Need To Know Westchester School Budget Votes: Here's What You Need To Know
Westchester School Budget Votes: Here's What You Need To Know This story has been updated. School district voters will face a host of proposed capital projects, school board elections and school budgets on Tuesday, May 15. Nearly half the school districts are close to the state-imposed tax cap on annual spending proposals.  Also popular this spring: Several Westchester school districts are seeking to set up "Capital Reserve Funds," or so-called rainy day funds of up to $10 million, for emergency expenditures.  Two school districts whose budget proposals exceed the cap are Mamaroneck and New Rochelle.  Mamaroneck's school district has grow…

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by Jon Craig
Politics
Gov. Cuomo Unveils State Budget Gov. Cuomo Unveils State Budget
Gov. Cuomo Unveils State Budget New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled his $168 billion 2018-2019 budget to lawmakers on Tuesday. Cuomo's budget includes a three-percent increase in funding for schools and a one-percent increase in funding for higher education. The budget also increases funding for capital projects by 14 percent and health care by three-percent. The budget also reduces spending on transportation, community colleges, mental hygiene and state agencies. State aid to municipalities and counties will be frozen.  The governor said his office is still working on a plan to combat the new federal tax reform bill tha…

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by Sam Barron