The Valley Stream Central High School District Board of Education voted 8-1 to adopt a $103.24 million 2012-13 budget at its March 13 business meeting.
When Superintendent Dr. Bill Heidenreich and his staff outlined the budget plans to the board in February, he said that in order for the district to maintain all of its programs, the tax levy increase would need to be 3.4 percent, greater than the maximum allowable tax levy increase of 2.55 percent under the new state tax cap law. To make up the difference, the district had to cut $1.1 million.
Initially, district officials thought the tax levy increase would be capped at 2 percent. However, a variety of exemptions in the tax cap legislation allow the district to increase the levy to 2.55 percent.
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