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South Orangetown board adjourns to budget workshop after 0% increase in state aid

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The South Orangetown Central School District Board of Education adjourned to a budget workshop to discuss tax levy options, use of reserves and reductions after hearing that state aid will not increase; administrators said they identified $1.1 million in nonprogram reductions aimed at avoiding layoffs.

The South Orangetown Central School District Board of Education adjourned its public meeting to a budget workshop at 6:52 p.m. to consider how to close a budget gap after the district received a 0% increase in state aid, a district staff member said.

"This is a particularly challenging budget year. It's unprecedented in my time here that South Orangetown has received a 0% increase in state aid," a district staff member told the board,…

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