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Rockville Centre presents $140.3 million preliminary 2025-26 budget; board hears transport, insurance pressures
Summary
District budget presenter outlined a $140,289,001.87 proposed budget for 2025–26, a 1.92% increase over 2024–25, with a projected tax levy increase of 2.6% within the 2.61% tax cap; administrators warned of rising transportation and insurance costs and detailed capital priorities.
Miss Rehak, the district’s budget and finance presenter, on Feb. 26 outlined a proposed 2025–26 budget of $140,289,001.87, a 1.92% increase from 2024–25, and said the district’s planned tax levy of $109,240,000 is within the 2.61% tax cap.
“This meeting now, we’re really starting to talk and delve into our budget process,” Miss Rehak said, introducing the administrative, benefits and capital sections of the proposal. She told the board that the district based its state-aid projection of $20,278,187 on the governor’s budget and that some figures remain subject to change when the Legislature issues its budget run in April.
Board members and staff discussed several large cost pressures. Miss Rehak highlighted health insurance unpredictability and said the budget includes a 10% projected premium increase for half of the fiscal year (beginning Jan. 1), and she noted recent employer-rate volatility over the past five years.…
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