North Syracuse proposes $224 million budget, three voter propositions including pool and buses

North Syracuse Central School District officials on Wednesday presented a proposed $224 million budget for the 2025–26 school year and announced three propositions that will appear on next week’s ballot, district staff said.

Don Keegan, staff member, told the budget hearing the proposed spending plan is about $224,000,000, an increase of roughly $11,800,000, or 5.59 percent, over the current year and that the district’s tax levy would rise 2.91 percent under the proposal.

The budget presentation emphasized the district’s revenue mix and pressures. “We receive about $10,000,000 of federal funding,” Keegan said, and added that “this budget does not contemplate the loss of any of that federal funding.” He also said the district is watching inflation, enrollment-driven state aid declines and the rising debt service tied to capital projects.

Keegan and other speakers outlined three propositions that will go before voters: a transportation and vehicles proposition (including replacement buses and maintenance vehicles), a capital proposition approving the use of $3,000,000 in grant funds to supplement…