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Cairo-Durham reduces tax levy increase for re-vote
May 31, 2013 6:58 am
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A re-vote on the Cairo-Durham 2013-14 budget will be held June 18.
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Jim Planck writes in The Daily Mail voters in the Cairo-Durham Central School District will go to the polls again on June 18 to consider a revised budget that reduces the proposed tax levy increase from 4.23 percent to 3.73 percent. The total budget figure will remain at $27.77 million. The tax levy reduction was made possible by appropriating an additional $60,000 from the district's fund balance for the 2013-14 revenue stream. On June 21, voters rejected the board's previous spending plan and defeated the re-election of board incumbents Greg Koerner-Fox and Beatrice Clappin. At the meeting Thursday, board members were presented with the results from the exit poll developed by the high school's Participation in Government and Statistics classes. The poll showed the biggest reason people voted 'no' on the budget was the grade realignment, or Princeton, plan. PLAY (1:07) The revised budget document will become available June 3 and the public hearing will be held June 10. The re-vote will take place 12 p.m. (noon) to 9 p.m., June 18 at the Cairo-Durham Middle School. A recording of the full May 30 Board of Education meeting can be found online, at wgxc.org/archives.
A re-vote on the Cairo-Durham 2013-14 budget will be held June 18. (Courtesy cairodurham.org)[/caption]
Jim Planck writes in The Daily Mail voters in the Cairo-Durham Central School District will go to the polls again on June 18 to consider a revised budget that reduces the proposed tax levy increase from 4.23 percent to 3.73 percent. The total budget figure will remain at $27.77 million. The tax levy reduction was made possible by appropriating an additional $60,000 from the district's fund balance for the 2013-14 revenue stream. On June 21, voters rejected the board's previous spending plan and defeated the re-election of board incumbents Greg Koerner-Fox and Beatrice Clappin. At the meeting Thursday, board members were presented with the results from the exit poll developed by the high school's Participation in Government and Statistics classes. The poll showed the biggest reason people voted 'no' on the budget was the grade realignment, or Princeton, plan. PLAY (1:07) The revised budget document will become available June 3 and the public hearing will be held June 10. The re-vote will take place 12 p.m. (noon) to 9 p.m., June 18 at the Cairo-Durham Middle School. A recording of the full May 30 Board of Education meeting can be found online, at wgxc.org/archives.