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Mount Vernon BOE Approves Near $252M Schools Budget, Vote Set For May 15 Mount Vernon BOE Approves Near $252M Schools Budget, Vote Set For May 15
Mount Vernon BOE Approves Near $252M Schools Budget, Vote Set For May 15 The Mount Vernon Board of Education has approved a near $252 million budget for the upcoming year, with Westchester County’s lowest tax rate increase for homeowners. School officials announced that the Board of Education has approved the proposed $251,979,860 budget for the 2018-19 school year, representing a .89 percent tax rate increase, the lowest in Westchester or Putnam, and the first tax rate increase since Schools Superintendent Kenneth Hamilton took the helm in 2014. The spending plan is $5.8 million (2.36 percent) more than last year’s budget, and includes staff, programs and capit…