Mahopac News 06.30.2022

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easily on second try
Supporters approve spending package
by more than 600 votes

She’s movin’ on up! BY BOB DUMAS property-tax increase, which had been 3.35
PHOTO: TABITHA PEARSON MARSHALL EDITOR percent, but now stands at 2.75 percent. Un-
der the original budget, the annual tax in-
Falon Hearns is all smiles after receiving her Moving Up certi cate last e second time was the charm. crease for a house assessed at $435,040 would
Friday. Her eighth-grade class took part in Moving Up Day ceremonies After rejecting the Mahopac school bud- have totaled $299. Now, it will be $247.
to mark their transition into high school next school year. For more pic- get by just eight votes last month, voters ap-
tures of the ceremony, see the centerspread on pages 18 and 19. proved the budget the second time around on Some of the cuts made from the original
Tuesday ( June 21) by a 1,747-1,120 margin. budget include:

e district avoided having to resort to an • Revised salaries due to retirements and
austerity budget, which would have resulted resignations ($177,216)
in slashing after-school programs, sports and
other nonacademic activities. But the $132.5 • Removal of transfer to capital fund for
million spending package prevailed. playground ($100,000)

School Superintendent Anthony DiCarlo • Reduced maintenance equipment – car-
said that after last month’s vote, the school penter/snow-removal vehicle ($52,000)
board asked administrators to “sharpen their
pencils” and reduce spending but be cogni- • Removal of high school student waiting
zant not to impact programming. area project ($84,000)

School o cials managed to cut slightly • Revised contractual salary estimates
more than half a million dollars from the to re ect settlements with administrators
spending package, reducing the budget from ($58,418)
$133,011,332 to $132,463,845 and dropping
the budget-to-budget increase from 4.42 DiCarlo noted that the number of vot-
percent to 3.99 percent. ers for the second budget vote increased by
more than 600, and most of them voted yes
e cuts resulted in a reduction in the this time around. He attributed that to school
o cials, along with the school board, spend-

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