Some districts held voting for budgets on Tuesday night. Here are the results.
Kiryas Joel Union Free School District:
Budget passes with a vote of 52 yes and 3 votes no.
A 20-year lease of a building for the preschool called Kiryas Joel Early Childhood Education Center passed - 55 yes and 0 no.
Simon Kepecs was reelected to school board - 55 votes yes and 0 no.
Suffern Central School
District
The 2021-22 Suffern Central School budget was approved with 2,243 'yes' votes, or 73.13% of the vote. The budget
totals $144,842,711 and reflects a .56% budget-to-budget increase and a .98%
tax levy increase.
And, 81.3% of voters, or 2,435 'yes' votes were cast in favor of Proposition 2, which allows
the district to use Capital Reserve Funds from
May 2017 to repair and replace roofs at Cherry Lane Elementary School and
Suffern Middle School and replace steam boilers at RP Connor Elementary School
with high-efficiency hot water condensing boilers .
Jennifer Hodge, Darrell Fraiser and Marlo Dickman have been elected to the
Board of Education. These seats carry a three-year term which will begin
on July 1, 2021, and concludes June 30, 2024.
East Ramapo Central School District
Voters in the East Ramapo Central School District approved the budget proposal for the 2021-22 academic year with
1,084 ‘yes’ votes and 647 ‘no’ votes.
This budget approval will provide:
* A 0% increase in tax levy with no
reductions in programs or services
* Seven much-needed social workers to
support students' social-emotional needs
* Consistent levels of music, the arts, athletics and
extra-curricular programming
* Enhanced English Language Learners (ELL) and Students With
Disabilities (SWD) programming
* Expanded school year opportunities
for students K-12 with a focus on literacy and numeracy development