What Happens if Voters Reject the Huntington School Budget?
If voters in the Huntington School District reject the proposed school budget on May 19 the School Board has several options. It can submit the same budget for a revote, place a revised plan on the ballot or adopt an austerity budget. If residents reject the budget again in a second vote, state law imposes a cap on any spending increase over the current year’s plan.
The budget adopted by the School Board at its April 20 meeting includes a 1.16 percent increase in spending, an amount attributed in part to a rise in costs for student transportation ($781,270), programs for students with disabilities ($546,271), employee health insurance ($310,484) and unemployment insurance ($119,465).
If Huntington is required to operate on a contingent budget next year, School Board members would have to cut $156,336 from the plan they have placed on the May 19 ballot. Spending would have to be reduced from the proposed amount of $104,814,259 to $104,657,923. The relatively small amount of the mandatory cut reflects just has far trustees have gone to control spending.
During the budget development process the district reduced possible spending by several million dollars. “It’s definitely a tight budget and a conservative spending plan,” Superintendent John J. Finello said.
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