Where 'no' vote to budget could mean higher taxes

If voters reject a proposed budget two times — on Tuesday, and on one subsequent vote in June — a school district must adopt a contingency, or “austerity,” budget in which spending is capped. Typically, those budgets and their tax levies are lower than those proposed originally and rejected by voters. But in at least 11 Long Island districts, the tax levy will rise under a contingency budget:

Babylon
Center Moriches
Comsewogue
Connetquot
East Islip
Islip
Middle Country
Sayville
South Country
South Huntington
Three Village

Source: Budget questionnaires supplied to Newsday by Long Island’s 124 school districts. Twenty districts did not supply contingency tax levy information.