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Averill Park board signals support for a 3.99% tax levy to limit cuts while avoiding voter backlash
Summary
Board members discussed tax‑levy scenarios and class‑size tradeoffs and signaled consensus to advance a 3.99% levy recommendation that aims to preserve key positions while improving chances the budget will pass, with staff asked to return a recommended budget on March 30.
Members of the Averill Park Central School District board spent more than two hours reviewing levy scenarios, capital‑project financing and class‑size projections before signaling support for moving forward with a 3.99% tax levy recommendation.
Superintendent (speaker identified in the record as the presenter) told the board that two approved capital projects are moving into financing and that the district already must provide roughly $676,000 in revenue to pay for capital work. He said those capital exclusions explain much of the district’s higher tax‑cap number and showed household impacts for multiple levy options, noting examples such as an estimated $187 increase on a $300,000 home at a 4.66% levy versus $141 at 3.5%.
“The capital exclusion is in there very…
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