Schools

Blind Brook Schools Propose 2017-18 Budget

The proposed budget is within the tax cap levy.

RYE, NYβ€”Dr. Jonathan Ross, superintendent of the Rye Union Free School District, has proposed of preliminary 2017-2018 school budget of $43,915,067 for Blind Brook schools. The new budget is only a 1.57 percent increase over the 2016-17 budget and remains within the tax cap.

Some of the new budget will be used to hire additional teachers.

A budget workshop is schedule for today, Saturday, March 4, with budget discussion meetings that the public can attend taking place on March 20 and April 3. The budget will be adopted on April 18, followed by a public budget hearing on May 8 and the vote on May 16.

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