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Keyword: Baldwin school budget 2013-14

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Board votes to exceed tax levy limit in budget proposal

Baldwin’s school board voted last week to pierce the New York state tax cap of 3.14 percent in its budget proposal next month. The board will present a spending plan that would increase taxes on the average Baldwin home by 7 percent. A 60 percent “supermajority” of voters will have to approve for the budget to pass. more

By Chris Connolly | 2/6/13

At the Baldwin School District’s first budget work session, trustees and administrators discussed how to present a transportation referendum and the quest for a supermajority as two facets of a single vote.

Schools see promise in survey

The Baldwin School District recently conducted a phone and Internet survey of parents and residents to gauge their receptiveness to a 2013-14 budget that would exceed the state’s tax levy increase cap for the district of 3.14 percent. more

By Chris Connolly | 1/30/13

School budget forecast is grim … again

A Board of Education meeting on Sept. 12 brought unwelcome, but not unexpected, news: Baldwin schools are facing a budget deficit again. In the 2012-13 budget — the one approved in May — a gap of around $4.7 million was part of the impetus for closing the Shubert and Milburn schools, among other cost-cutting measures. The shortfall projected for the next budget, 2013-14, is even more substantial. more

By Chris Connolly | 9/27/12

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