Public Hearing On School Budget Is May 10 At SMS; Election For Two Board Seats and Budget Approval Is May 17

The school budget makes up over 70% of your property tax bill, so it pays to be informed and to vote.  A public hearing on the Somers Central School District budget is scheduled for May 10 at 7 PM  at the Somers Middle School Cafeteria.  A vote on the budget is May 17th.  A link to the proposed budget is listed on the right column of this blog under "Links".  See the Budget and Budget Facts at the school district's web site.  


In addition, two Board of Education seats are up for election, including that of the current School Board President. Running for the seats on the Board of Education are:  Linda Graffitti, Harvey Kriedberg, Cheryl Smith (incumbent) and Lucia Vece (incumbent). Profiles of the candidates are in April 28 issue of the weekly newspaper the Somers Record, although not available online.


Register to vote by May 12.   


Not all of Somers, NY is in the Somers Central School District.  A small part of the town is within the North Salem School District. About 168 children from Somers attend North Salem public schools. The total enrollment of the Somers Central School District is nearly 3500.


More information about the budget vote and board election, including an Absentee Ballot application, is at the District Announcements page of the Somers Central School District  web page.



LINKS:
http://www.somersschools.org/modules/groups/homepagefiles/cms/1492346/File/Budget%20Facts%202011-2012(3).pdf?sessionid=099c9dacc4466fa062f881fdadd1f8fb
http://somersschools.org/modules/groups/homepagefiles/cms/1492346/File/Proposed%202011-12%20Annual%20School%20Budget.pdf?sessionid=099c9dacc4466fa062f881fdadd1f8fb
http://somersschools.org/modules/cms/announce.phtml?sessionid=099c9dacc4466fa062f881fdadd1f8fb