What if the Budget Fails?

All residents of the district recently received a mailer with this notice on it:

NYS requires districts to send this information out in this format including the statement at the bottom about a "contingency budget" -- the budget the district would operate on if the proposed budget fails.

It states that by law, the district would have to cut $2,680,973 from the proposed budget for next year.

Such a cut would leave the budget about $170,000 lower than it is this year. Because wages go up every year and 82% of our budget is personnel costs, the impact is described as "cuts will include administrative as well as teaching positions and cuts in buildings and grounds."

People will lose their jobs. The tax levy will remain the same.

If you're looking for your copy, the mailer looked like this: