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SOUTHERN
ULSTER
Vol. 14, No 47 3 NOVEMBER 22 - 28, 2017
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SERVING HIGHLAND, MARLBOROUGH AND PLATTEKILL
Marlboro strengthens anti-bullying effort Local town
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
Last week a presentation on the
handling of harassment and bullying
issues was made to the Marlboro School
Board by Asistant Superintendant
of Technology and Personnel Michael
Bakatsias and the Director of Curriculum
and Instruction Robin Hecht.
Bakatsias gave an overview on how
the district “maintains a proper climate”
in the work place and in the learning
space at school. He said the main thrust
of the Dignity for All Students Act
[DASA] that passed in 2010 is to create
a “safe and supportive environment
free from discrimination, intimidation,
taunting, harassment and bullying on
school property, on a school bus or at a
school function.”
Bakatsias said at the beginning of the
2017-18 school year the district stressed
that it is the responsibility of all staff
members, who are public employees,
to know the district’s safety policies,
practices and laws that exist and to know
who and where to go to for additional
information.
“We are all on one big team and we’re
here to create the very best possible
opportunities for students to succeed and
to leave us with the 21st century skills
that we know they need,” he said.
Bakatsias said it is imperative that
everyone has a voice and is treated with
dignity and respect “to allow for a proper
flow of information and a sharing of ideas
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D iamond J ubilee
2018
budgets
stay under
tax cap
By MARK REYNOLDS
[email protected]
By law towns have to have their
budgets for 2018 approved by late
November. All three towns in our
readership area – Lloyd, Marlborough,
and Plattekill – met the deadline and
passed their budgets for next year.
PHOTO PROVIDED
Third graders at Plattekill Elementary School perform a song at the school’s Diamond Jubilee celebration. Story on page 3.
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Town of Lloyd
The Town of Lloyd approved a
$10,827,147 budget for 2018. After
applying expected revenues of $2,787,506
and $483,000 in un-expended funds,
and subtracting the fire district taxes
of $1,255,011, the amount needed to be
raised in taxes is $6,301,630.
Supervisor Paul Hansut said salaries
are the same as last year for all elected
officials.
In dollars, Hansut said a taxpayer
with a home assessed at $300,000 will see
an increase of $30 if they are outside the
water/sewer district; $30 if inside the
water/sewer district and $6 if inside just
the water district compared to this year.
Hansut said according to calculations
received from the NYS Comptroller’s
office, the town is under the state tax cap
limit by $33,450. He thanked bookkeeper
Karen McPeck and his secretary Kate
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