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Syosset budget preview: 2.52% preliminary tax-cap, rising insurance and transportation costs cited
Summary
Associate Superintendent Doctor Bridal presented the district’s first look at the 2025–26 budget, showing a preliminary tax-cap of 2.52%, a roughly $700,000 increase in state aid, and continuing pressure from insurance, pensions, transportation and enrollment shifts.
Doctor Bridal, the associate superintendent for business services, presented the Syosset Central School District’s first look at the 2025–26 budget on the board’s meeting night, saying the district will submit a preliminary tax-cap and levy on March 1 and then continue work before the May 20 budget vote.
Bridal said the preliminary tax-cap for the district is 2.52% and that preliminary state-aid estimates show about a $700,000 increase (roughly 2.8%). “We are still dealing with inflationary pressures,” Bridal said, noting health insurance and pension costs remain major upward pressures on the budget. She added the district saw some relief this year on health insurance rates but projects insurance increases to continue.
The presentation emphasized several cost drivers. Bridal told the board that transportation is…
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