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Wappingers superintendent presents 2026-27 budget calling for new special-education director and ~2.5% tax-levy increase
Summary
Superintendent Doctor Banck presented a 2026-27 recommended budget that adds a human-resources supervisor and a director of special education, keeps staffing cuts at zero, uses roughly $14 million of fund balance and estimates a tax-levy increase around 2.5%; grant-funded social-worker and psychologist positions will not be sustained this year.
Superintendent Doctor Banck presented the Wappingers Central School District's recommended 2026-27 budget at the March 23 board meeting, saying the plan would add a human-resources supervisor and a director of special education while remaining below the state tax cap.
"For the fifth consecutive year, we will be coming in with a budget that will be below the tax cap," Doctor Banck said, and added that the district expects the tax-levy increase to be "somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.5%." He said the budget would be balanced without staff layoffs.
Banck told the board that a $2,500,000 COVID/recovery grant the district used to fund additional social workers…
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