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Wallkill Valley board approves revised 2024–25 budget, uses surplus and capital reserve for special education and shop upgrades
Summary
The Wallkill Valley Regional High School Board approved a revised 2024–2025 budget on July 16, authorizing a $12,963,622 general fund tax levy, appropriating $148,545 from surplus and withdrawing $100,000 from capital reserve for shop upgrades, and allocating additional levy funds for two new out-of-district special-education placements and staff.
The Wallkill Valley Regional High School Board of Education voted on July 16 to approve a revised tentative budget for the 2024–2025 school year and to authorize related uses of surplus and capital-reserve funds.
Business Administrator and Board Secretary Joseph P. Hurley Jr. presented the revised budget using state-aid figures and line-item adjustments. The board approved a total budget of $17,417,533, including a general fund tax levy of $12,963,622 and other state and local sources of $3,771,341. The board also approved special-revenue and debt-service figures as presented.
The board authorized the appropriation of $148,545 from surplus to help offset the tax increase and approved a withdrawal of $100,000 from the capital reserve to fund shop upgrades. Meeting minutes state that an additional $465,455 raised through the tax levy will be spent on two new out-of-district special-education students (tuition and transportation for one student), two teachers’ salaries with benefits, and supplies for a new program.
Hurley introduced school auditor John Mooney to explain estimated tax levies; Mooney attributed Hamburg’s relatively large levy increase to changes in net valuation. Superintendent David Carr described the district’s Alternative Education Program as part of the budget discussion. Board Vice President Thomas Kabatra asked about the state’s definition of excessive absences during the hearing.
The board also approved district travel-related resolutions as part of the budget submittal: a $150 annual staff threshold for routine district business travel (above which prior approval is required) and a districtwide maximum of $35,000 for travel-related reimbursements that do not comply with N.J.A.C. 6A:23A-1.1 et seq., declared necessary and unavoidable by the board.
The motion to approve the revised tentative budget passed in a roll-call vote (motion recorded as Bonard/Jones). The minutes record the board’s approval but do not list individual roll-call tallies in the published minutes.
