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PRESS RELEASE 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                 CONTACT:

May 18, 2006                                                               Robert E. Biggerstaff, Esq.
                                                                                    Executive Director and General Counsel
                                                                                    Telephone: (518) 475-9500
                                                                                    Fax: (518) 475-7677  

Over 89% of Small City School Districts passed their school budgets on 'Super Tuesday" ... but some by the skin of their teeth. Rome CSD, for example, passed its budget by one vote, on a vote of 1,140 to 1,139. Peekskill CSD's budget passed by 8 votes, 417 to 409. Of the six out of 57 small city districts that suffered budget defeats, several were extremely tight votes, with the Albany CSD budget losing by fewer than 100 votes out of more than 5000 votes cast. Despite these close calls, the small city district performance was virtually identical to the state average of just under 89%. Small City School District Association Executive Director Robert Biggerstaff stated emphatically, "Small City School Boards should be commended for careful budgeting and for keeping budget and tax levy increases reasonable despite enormous budgetary pressures from fixed cost increases such as retirement system contributions, health insurance and utility charges over which they had little control."  On average, small city districts increased their budgets by 6.75%, under the 7% increase in state aid, and increased their tax levies by even less, 5.91%. Below find the preliminary Budget Vote Report-2006, updated as of 12:00 pm 5/18/06.

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BUDGET

passed?

# yes

# no

 dollar amount

 tax levy amount

school district

 

 

 

 

 

Albany

NO

2,444

2,515

 

 

Amsterdam

NO

1,144

1,801

 $        45,160,393

 $          17,691,365

Auburn

YES

1,833

1,129

 $        59,162,896

 $          23,742,357

Batavia

YES

541

441

 $        36,214,045

 $          17,312,206

Beacon

NO

1,077

1,399

 

 

Binghamton

YES

754

423

 $        78,653,627

 $          33,606,595

Canandaigua

YES

1,264

701

 $        53,138,049

 $          29,990,436

Cohoes

YES

407

234

 

 

Corning

YES

1,666

1,308

 $        74,320,655

 $          36,760,128

Cortland

YES

498

179

 $        36,137,536

 $          13,018,424

Dunkirk

YES

1,124

607

 

 

Elmira

YES

852

455

 $        99,841,474

 $          28,592,647

Fulton

YES

587

408

 $        50,474,000

 $          16,664,020

Geneva

YES

415

231

 

 

Glen Cove

YES

1,515

642

 $        60,705,699

 $          50,003,763

Glens Falls

YES

871

447

 

 

Gloversville

NO

741

950

 

 

Hornell

NO

395

606

 $        25,022,692

 $            5,591,174

Hudson

YES

1,813

1,293

 

 

Ithaca

YES

2,141

1,434

 $        86,849,292

 $          60,357,345

Jamestown

YES

648

495

 $        62,929,245

 

Johnstown

YES

533

287

 

 

Kingston

NO

2,787

3,848

 $      126,257,112

 $          78,052,606

Lackawanna

YES

1,125

732

 $        34,535,000

 $       6,875,000.00

Little Falls

YES

466

244

 $        17,464,838

 $            6,696,960

Lockport

YES

1,256

701

 $        67,753,702

 $          30,437,683

Long Beach

YES

2,098

1,561

 

 

Mechanicville

YES

 

 

 

 

Middletown

YES

738

460

 $      109,407,240

 $          49,441,013

Mount Vernon

YES

948

783

 $      164,800,785

 $          94,465,603

New Rochelle

YES

2,414

1,363

 

 

Newburgh

YES

1,235

1,020

 $      183,182,118

 $          86,427,896

Niagara Falls

YES

1,571

752

 $      111,414,400

 $          25,076,688

North Tonawanda

YES

1,304

784

 $        58,779,289

 $          23,795,957

Norwich

YES

642

299

 $        29,627,137

 $            9,733,301

Ogdensburg

YES

396

126

 

 

Olean

YES

663

411

 $        30,831,867

 $          10,658,399

Oneida

YES

406

138