Schools
2013 East Hampton Voter Guide: How Will You Vote?
Your guide to the proposed 2013-14 school budget.
Voters in East Hampton will head to the polls on Tuesday to say “yes” or “no” to the East Hampton School District's proposed $64.2 million 2013-14 budget.
The proposal is $1.4 million or 2.2 percent more than the 2012-13 budget, and will mean a yearly increase of $152.20 if your property is assessed at $6,000. If it's assessed at $8,000, the yearly increase is $209.60.
Despite the increases, the school board and administration worked hard over the past few months to cut just over $1 million of the budget to stay within the tax cap, according to Superintendent Rich Burns last month when the board adopted the budget.
"No positions are being totally eliminated," Burns said. Instead, programming in some areas was "fractionalized," or is being cut down a bit. For more information on the programming changes, click here.
Will you vote yes or no? Why? Log in to Patch and tell us in the comments below.
School Board Candidates (vote for three)
Polling Information
• Location: East Hampton High School auditorium, 2 Long Ln., East Hampton
• Vote between 1 and 8 p.m.
What if the budget doesn’t pass?
• The school board can choose to put the same budget up for a re-vote on the second Tuesday in June.
• The school board can choose to go right into a contingency budget, which would not increase the tax levy but which would require about $2.2 million more in cuts.
• If a budget vote fails twice, the school district automatically is subject to a contingency budget.
View related budget documents on the school district’s website.
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