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New Rochelle Voters Approve $270M Schools Budget On Second Shot
Sometimes, the second time’s the charm.
After rejecting a $272.8 million schools budget, voters came back on Tuesday to approve a revised $270,381,160 spending plan that will have a limited impact for taxpayers by a vote of 1,757 to 1,004.
The cap on the increase in the tax levy – the amount of money to be raised by property taxes – was 2.231 percent. The budget kept the increase to that level by cutting $3.4 million from the tax levy that was included in the budget that voters rejected in May. The tax levy in the now-approved budget is $209,002,162. That is an increase of $4,560,520 over t…
New Rochelle To Vote On Second Proposed Schools Budget On Tuesday
New Rochelle residents will have the opportunity on Tuesday, June 19 to vote on a new schools budget after overwhelmingly rejecting a $272.8 million spending plan last month.
Last month, voters rejected the district’s initial proposed plan with 3,116 votes against and 1,689 in favor of the proposed $272,804,093 budget, which went over the tax cap override.
As a result, the administration and Board of Education drafted a new $270,381,160 spending plan that “stays within the state tax cap, preserves programming and includes funds to add school counselors and several other positions as well as…
