Sweet Home Residents Approve District Budget for 2009-2010 School Year
Residents of the Sweet Home Central School District approved the 2009-2010 district budget, Tuesday, May 19, by a vote of 410 “yes” to 133 “no”. Of the 556 voters, 74% voted to pass the budget.
Voters also approved Proposition No. 1 to spend $442,000 to purchase five (5) buses by a vote of 402 “yes” to 136 “no”.
The $63,842,057 budget represents an increase of 1.98% over the previous year.
With the passing of the federal stimulus package which restored $1.8 million in state aid, the Board of Education decided to restore $694,000 of planned reductions. District officials also anticipate that the assessed values of all properties on the Amherst side of the district will rise between 10 and 12 percent while the equalization rate on the Tonawanda side will decrease by 5 to 6 percent. Under this scenario, the average tax bill for an Amherst home assessed at $100,000 with the STAR exemption would decrease $88 from the current year. A similar home in the Town of Tonawanda with the change in equalization rate would see a tax bill increase of $36.
In the school board election, Dirk D. Rabenold won re-election receiving 458 votes. Mr. Rabenold ran unopposed.
Sweet Home residents have not defeated a budget since 1977, and before that since 1964.
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