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Budget workshop: district faces roughly $7.5 million gap as health insurance and transportation costs rise
Summary
Business official Jeff Carlson told the Three Village Board of Education that the district faces a roughly $7.5 million gap driven by a 12.7 percent health‑insurance increase and higher transportation costs tied to possible start‑time changes; board members discussed using reserves as a one‑time bridge.
The Three Village Central School District’s business official, Mr. Jeff Carlson, told the Board of Education at the March 5 workshop that the district is projecting a revenue‑to‑expense shortfall of about $7.5 million for the coming year if current staffing levels are maintained.
Carlson said the district’s tax levy limit for the year is calculated at 2.78 percent, based in part on a decision to lower planned capital projects from $3 million to $1.5 million; he also said the governor’s executive budget as presented in January would yield a net increase in state aid of about $238,000 for the district but that final state aid will be set when the state budget is completed. “That’s not going to be millions of dollars more,” Carlson…
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