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Riverhead schools: With tax cap in mind, board thinks budget

By Vera Chinese

FILE PHOTO | Riverhead High School

Although school started just one week ago, the Riverhead school board is already set to schedule a timeline by which to hammer out a district budget for the 2012-13 school year at its meeting tonight.

Superintendent Nancy Carney will first meet with administrators Monday, Oct. 17 to discuss the budget outlook, according to the agenda for tonight’s meeting. The preliminary budget will be presented to taxpayers March 27.

The statewide vote for school budgets is set for May 15, 2012.

This will be the first budget the district creates while trying to work within the confines of the two percent tax increase cap, which was approved by the state earlier this year.

The board is also expected to vote to approve year-end adjustments to the 2010-11 school year budget, which leaves the district with a $22 million fund balance, $3.5 million of which will be used to reduce taxes in 2011-12.

The board meets tonight at 7 p.m. at the high school auditorium.

Click below to read the agenda

Sept 13

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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