Saturday, June 21, 2025
The North Shore School District's budget for the 2025-26 school year passed Tuesday night, with 1,657 for to 697 against.
The new $125 million budget, a 2.4 percent increase from the prior year, has the 11th smallest increases from year to year in the district's history. Increasing costs in the upcoming year stem from employee benefits, rising salaries, and the implementation of a new curriculum.
In addition, it introduces a proposed tax levy of roughly 2.9 percent for the next year, which hovers below the peak 3.1 percent allowable tax levy the district can impose.
There were no additional propositions included in this year’s budget proposal. In the Board of Education elections, incumbent Trustees Lisa Cashman, Jessica Dillon, James Svendsen and newcomer Brian Hanley all secured election, running unopposed.
Cashman, who was reelected with 1,665 votes, will serve in her second term on the board.
Svendsen earned 1,543 votes. He was first elected in 2024 to fill out the remainder of the one year term of Marianne Russo, who stepped down from the board earlier in the year.
Dillon, who filled the open seat left by Richard Galati after leaving the board last November, will serve her first full term on the board earning 1,541 votes.
Hanley, a financial services regulatory attorney and member of the Legislative Action Committee since 2021 will join the board for his first term, earning 1,534 votes.
