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Syosset presents 2025–26 budget with 3.53% overall increase, proposes 2.77% tax levy and purchase of three buses
Summary
At the district's state-required budget hearing, administrators proposed a $10 million increase for 2025–26 that preserves programs while keeping the tax levy 0.03 percentage points under the calculated cap; the plan includes buying three buses with an anticipated break-even in year three.
Syosset Central School District administrators presented the district’s state-required 2025–26 budget at the board meeting, proposing a 3.53% overall increase that would fund programs for about 7,200 students while keeping the proposed tax levy at 2.77%, roughly $67,000 below the district’s calculated tax cap.
The budget hearing matters because it outlines the district’s spending priorities — preserving academic and extracurricular programs, expanding special-education supports and maintaining facilities — and sets the levy voters will decide on in the budget vote scheduled for May 20.
Associate Superintendent for Business Doctor Bridal told the board the 2025–26 budget is intended to “preserve all of our academic programs and services”…
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