Smithtown's Superintendent Edward Ehmann gave the district his bottom-line budget number for the 2011-12 school year at last night's community input meeting, but no specific budget line information at all.
The $212, 361,284. budget is a .41% increase over the current year's budget. Beginning with a rollover of the 2010-11 budget, the Administration then began .5% cuts to departments across the board, got savings in: security, building management, through increasing elementary class size, making cuts to athletics, and from a number of clerical and other non-classified positions, partially through attrition. This budget maximizes the use of reserves up to $6.7 million.
The district may see additional savings through a transportation referendum.
The $212,361,284 budget comes with a tax levy of 4.92%.
A contingent budget of $215,307,048 would, obviously, be greater than the proposed budget.
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