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Carmel board previews 2025–26 budget with 3.9% increase, $1.75M in reserves proposed
Summary
At its Feb. 4 meeting, the Carmel Central School District presented a draft 2025–26 budget that would increase spending by 3.9% (about $5 million) and recommend drawing roughly $1.75 million from restricted reserves; trustees asked questions about capital repairs, a proposed law-enforcement CTE program and bus replacements.
At a Feb. 4 board meeting at Carmel High School, district budget lead Ken Silver presented a line-by-line draft of the Carmel Central School District’s 2025–26 spending plan, saying the proposal would increase the budget by 3.9, roughly $5 million, and recommends using $1.75 million from restricted reserves out of about $20 million in total reserves.
Silver told trustees the increase translates to about three-quarters of 1 percent in taxes — “which for the house worth $350,000 is a total of $53 for the year,” he said — and that much of the plan relies on additional state aid and…
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