Public Votes Down School Budget Tops Scarsdale News This Week

SCARSDALE, N.Y. – Here are the top stories of the week in Scarsdale.

• The Scarsdale School District's $145.3 million budget failed to get a majority of votes Tuesday and required a supermajority, 60 percent, of votes because it exceeded the tax cap. The district held a public session Thursday night to get feedback from the community on how to proceed with its second vote June 18. The administration and board of education must draft and adopt a new budget by June 3.
• Officials from Westchester schools, governments and businesses gathered in White Plains Thursday to launch Stop Albany From Taking Our Power, a movement to reduce unfunded state mandates like Medicaid, pensions and preschool special education. Those will cost the county government $464 million, while the county will only receive $249 million in state aid, County Executive Rob Astorino said.
• A video of a chaperone who had some choice words for his 12- and 13-year-old children who were returning to Edgemont from a bat mitzvah in Manhattan has been getting attention on the Internet. The video shows him making violent threats and using expletives. 

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