Tuckahoe Schools pass 2.47 tax levy increase

The Tuckahoe School Board tonight voted to approve a $28,897,513 2011-2012 budget proposal to send to voters in May. The figure represents a spending increase of 3.44 percent and a tax levy increase of 2.47 percent.

The budget does not make substantial cuts to programming but, on the contrary, adds the equivalent of three teaching positions to next year's budget.

The board also decided to move the district's office staff, who currently dwell in leased office space on Elm Street in Tuckahoe, to within the Tuckahoe Middle School building. The board declined a lease offer made by Tuckahoe Mayor Steven Ecklond (R) last month to move into the third floor of Village Hall, vacant for around a year, citing a sizable increase in rent beginning in year two of the lease.

Voters in the district cast their ballot on May 17 as to whether to accept or reject the budget passed tonight by the Tuckahoe School Board.

For more on the Tuckahoe School District's budget adoption, check out the April 15 edition of The Town Report newspaper!