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Iroquois board hears budget outlook as state aid negotiations continue
Summary
Board members reviewed preliminary 2025–26 budget projections, emphasizing uncertainty in state aid, erosion of some expense-based aids, and a narrow gap the district expects to cover if the state increases aid by the governor's proposed 2% or legislature's near-3% proposals.
The Iroquois Central School District Board of Education reviewed preliminary figures for the 2025–26 budget and discussed how competing proposals at the state level could affect next year's revenues and local tax levy.
Board and staff said the governor's executive proposal would raise state aid by a 2% minimum for districts; Senate and Assembly proposals were described by staff as nearer to 3%. District staff said the proposals now move into negotiations in Albany and that the final number is uncertain.
District presenters told the board that several long-running trends are reducing the share of locally spent dollars that the state reimburses. The district has seen a gradual…
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