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PB authorizes $53 million capital project
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
The Pine Bush School board authorized
a $53.98 million capital project for a public
vote at its regularly scheduled meeting on
March 26.
Assistant Superintendent of Business
Michael Pacella presented the project,
which is broken up into two propositions:
the base scope, costing $44.88 million, and
the athletic scope, costing $9.1 million.
The base contains much-needed
building maintenance and safety
measures, such as secure vestibules;
window, brick and roof replacements;
parking lot repaving; air handling unit
renovations and repairs, and more.
The
athletic
scope
includes
improvements such as a new scoreboard
and a new bullpen at EJ Russell
Elementary School; a new multi-use
synthetic turf field and a new eight-lane
track at the high school; a new natural
turf athletic field with six-lane track at
Circleville Middle School, and more.
The base scope can pass on its own,
while the athletic scope can only pass if
voters also approve the base scope.
After state aid and the $7.5 million in
the capital reserve fund are applied to the
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3.97%
increase
Valley Central presents
$108 million budget
By TED REMSNYDER
B on V oyage !
Eva Greenberg
Amid hijinks, ploys, confessions and mistaken identities, the students of Valley Central High School will set sail with its performance of
Anything Goes this weekend. Story on page 18.
One year after Valley Central taxpayers
rejected the district’s initial proposed
budget before approving an amended
spending plan the second time around,
the district is hoping for a smoother
budget process this election season. At
the Valley Central Board of Education
meeting on March 25, the administration
presented a tentative $108,157,000
proposed 2019-2020 budget that stays with
the 2.8 percent tax cap.
The proposed plan represents a
3.97 percent increase over last year’s
approved $104,023,293 budget. Last
May, local voters rejected the district’s
original proposed budget of $104,203,711,
but approved the second spending plan
in June when $180,418 was cut out of the
first plan. The district is still waiting on
final state aid numbers from Albany once
a final state budget deal is cut.
Under the proposed budget, a 2.8
percent cap would result in an annual
tax bill increase of $100.45 for homes
with an assessed value of $100,000, with
a yearly increase of $200.90 for homes
with a $200,000 value and a $301.35 raise
for residences with an assessed value of
$300,000.
A separate proposition on the ballot
on May 21 will give voters the chance
to decide whether or not to establish
a Capital Reserve Fund in the district
with a limit of $10 million in funding for
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