Quintet Seek 3 BOE Seats In Oswego City School District
Five persons are seeking a position on the Oswego City School District Board of Education. Voters will go to the polls on May 17.
The April regular meeting for the Oswego City School District Board of Education is scheduled for April 26 at 6 p.m. at the Education Center board room. On April 25, at 9 a.m. members will gather at the Education Center to vote on the BOCES budget and elect members to the BOCES board.
Board members approved a decision to appeal the state Supreme Court ruling last month that dismissed the district’s petition challenging the tax agreement with Nine Mile Point Unit I. The board also approved the proposed budget for 2011-2012. The budget proposal is $74, 744,748 and contains a zero percent tax levy increase.
Rising costs for health insurance and pensions are described as ‘a runaway train.’ The district is not sure currently how much state aid it will receive and the amount Nine Mile I and II nuclear plants will pay in taxes for the coming school year. The tentative budget plan will be on the agenda for discussion at next month’s finance committee meeting.
The Oswego School Board will present its trimmed down version of the 2011-12 draft budget to the administration by the end of the week. According to board vice president John Dunsmoor, chair of the BOE’s finance committee, the tentative budget might include a two percent tax levy increase.
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