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Scotia‑Glenville presents budget that meets tax cap, proposes staff reductions to close $2.7M gap
Summary
Administrators told the board a recommended $67.16 million spending limit meets the allowable tax levy (1.78%) after $2.6M in cuts and $130,000 in added revenue; the plan includes roughly 33 impacted positions (net ~17.75 FTE reductions) while preserving core student services.
Drew, the district presenter, told the Scotia‑Glenville Central School District Board of Education on March 16 that the superintendent’s recommended budget would hold the district at its maximum allowable tax levy under the tax cap and present a spending limit of $67,155,932. He said the district’s budget gap of roughly $2.7 million has been closed largely through expense reductions and modest revenue increases.
"We now are at the maximum levy allowable for the tax cap with the budget that the superintendent's presenting to move forward with," Drew said, describing a recalculation in the tax‑cap that reduced the allowable levy from about 2.22% to 1.78% after a commercial PILOT…
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