'No' budget vote could cost taxpayers more
Voters who reject proposed school budgets in some Long Island districts could end up with an even higher contingency budget -- and pay more in taxes as a result, a Newsday survey found.
Of the districts that gave out contingency budget and tax levy information, nine said the contingency tax levies -- the amount of the budgets that taxpayers must fund -- would be more than the tax levies in the proposed budgets. Not all of the 124 districts gave contingency information.
Out East with Doug Geed: Wine harvests, a fish market, baked treats and poinsettias NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits two wineries and a fish market, and then it's time for holiday cheer, with a visit to a bakery and poinsettia greenhouses.
Out East with Doug Geed: Wine harvests, a fish market, baked treats and poinsettias NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits two wineries and a fish market, and then it's time for holiday cheer, with a visit to a bakery and poinsettia greenhouses.
