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Connetquot kicks off 2025–26 budget season; board discusses firefighter, ambulance and senior tax exemptions
Summary
Business officials opened the 2025–26 budget season, warned that inflation is outpacing the tax‑cap and asked trustees whether to adopt a Town of Islip‑style two‑year volunteer firefighter/ambulance exemption and to raise senior income limits for tax relief.
The Connetquot Central School District’s business office opened the 2025–26 budget process with a presentation on the timetable, inflationary pressures and state‑aid uncertainty, and asked trustees to consider two local tax‑exemption choices the Town of Islip recently adopted.
Business official Bob Hauser described the next 90 days as an intensive budget development window leading to the May 20 budget vote and school board election. Hauser told trustees the district has been constrained by the statutory tax‑cap formula (the commonly referenced “2 percent” cap is affected by a tax‑base growth factor and an allowable levy growth factor) even as inflation and cost drivers exceed that benchmark.
State aid uncertainty: Hauser and Superintendent Senimore said districts expect the governor’s executive proposal on state aid at the end of January and that final state aid…
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