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According to Newsday, yesterday was the first time in history every single Long Island school district budget passed on the first attempt. Apparently the rate has been 98 to 99% lately, but not 100%. Until this year.
Also according to Newsday, the margins by which all the budgets passed were generally extraordinarily wide.
All of this Newsday notes, is despite the fact that school taxes make up about 2/3rds of property taxes that are themselves among the highest in nation.
Here is the chart giving the results from last night's voting (not sure if this is accessible):
It's pleasing to see most Long Islanders are apparently still doing well enough fiscally to pass the school budgets. Looking forward to visiting our old neighbors there next month after we get from South Africa trip.
Fighting the LI tax battle via school budget vote is futile. Only a small portion of the expenditure is voted on by the public. Pay, pensions and benefits are untouched if the budgets fail. School budget voting is only an illusion of control.
The fact that the four, sparsely populated east end towns that are primarily full of homeowners who do not have children in the schools have 20 school districts demonstrates the insane inefficiencies and graft inherent in this structure.
Ha, the two chief phonies appear in the 1st three comments to insinuate "LIers are doing well" since the budgets passed. hahahahahahaha. As though they have a choice. Voting NO punishes everyone more, especially the kids. But of course, that is how the manipulated system is designed to work. Once again, love him or hate him, but thank GOD Cuomo got that tax cap passed or your smug, bandwagon magnanimity would be a bit different. Only 1 district attempted to pierce the cap. THAT is why they all passed the vote. Such ridiculous reaches you make. Just because LI is historically considered "affluent" and "well educated" doesn't mean net migration isn't down, job growth below anemic, household debt per capita soaring and taxes still going up.
It's a friggin holiday. School taxes ONLY went up 2%!! Oh yay!! Gloryoski! lmfao
Ha, the two chief phonies appear in the 1st three comments to insinuate "LIers are doing well" since the budgets passed. hahahahahahaha. As though they have a choice. Voting NO punishes everyone more, especially the kids. But of course, that is how the manipulated system is designed to work. Once again, love him or hate him, but thank GOD Cuomo got that tax cap passed or your smug, bandwagon magnanimity would be a bit different. Only 1 district attempted to pierce the cap. THAT is why they all passed the vote. Such ridiculous reaches you make. Just because LI is historically considered "affluent" and "well educated" doesn't mean net migration isn't down, job growth below anemic, household debt per capita soaring and taxes still going up.
It's a friggin holiday. School taxes ONLY went up 2%!! Oh yay!! Gloryoski! lmfao
They need to say LI'ers are doing well because they're cashing our checks. Sometimes they say it for self-reassurance the gravy train won't come to a halt. They can say and believe what they like in their little bubble. Their statements and beliefs don't line up with reality for many people on LI, nor keep exhausted, tapped out people here.
The tax cap is a bit of joke by now. To get around the limit, they issue bond referendums to fund basic repairs and upgrades to stay within the cap.
They need to say LI'ers are doing well because they're cashing our checks. Sometimes they say it for self-reassurance the gravy train won't come to a halt. They can say and believe what they like in their little bubble. Their statements and beliefs don't line up with reality for many people on LI, nor keep exhausted, tapped out people here.
The tax cap is a bit of joke by now. To get around the limit, they issue bond referendums to fund basic repairs and upgrades to stay within the cap.
Yup. That 1.73% is after many convoluted formulas, exemptions and deductions (state aid, certain grants, reserves, cap project H code money) to get to 2%, but it's still better than before when all they had to do was cry a river and propose 5-8%, plus a bond, plus sitting on illegally high reserves. At least there is some oversight now. It's getting better, slowly. Many embedded knots to unwind over time. Attrition is doing it's thing.
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