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Pittsford Central School District voters approved a $109.7 million budget by a margin of 500 votes: 1,543 to 1,043.
The $83,177,728 tax levy will increase $2,116,373 from the current year. The tax rate will be $23.37 per $1,000 of assessed value.
The district is not reducing any jobs, but the number of positions at the middle and high schools would be frozen. The district would no longer offer summer school for students who want to take new classes and is proposing a 5 percent reduction in discretionary areas such as supplies, materials, field trips and contractual expenses.
Two candidates ran for two open board seats. Incumbent Ed Starowicz received 1,777 votes, while newcomer Peter Sullivan received 2,055.
Starowicz is the deputy commissioner of public works for the town of Pittsford.
“I’m glad to be elected for another three years,” he said. “I got a lot under my belt in the first three and hope to do more.”
Sullivan, a development editor at Thomson Reuters, is ready to get started.
“My first and foremost goal is that I’ve got a lot of learning to do about how the Board of Education operates,” he said. “I really want to make sure I join the effort that’s already ongoing with the board and the school district and to make (the district) even better.”
A proposition to authorize the use of $1,125,000 from the bus purchase capital reserve fund to replace 11 buses was approved, 1,706 to 815.
Pittsford Central School District voters approved a $109.7 million budget by a margin of 500 votes: 1,543 to 1,043.
The $83,177,728 tax levy will increase $2,116,373 from the current year. The tax rate will be $23.37 per $1,000 of assessed value.
The district is not reducing any jobs, but the number of positions at the middle and high schools would be frozen. The district would no longer offer summer school for students who want to take new classes and is proposing a 5 percent reduction in discretionary areas such as supplies, materials, field trips and contractual expenses.
Two candidates ran for two open board seats. Incumbent Ed Starowicz received 1,777 votes, while newcomer Peter Sullivan received 2,055.
Starowicz is the deputy commissioner of public works for the town of Pittsford.
“I’m glad to be elected for another three years,” he said. “I got a lot under my belt in the first three and hope to do more.”
Sullivan, a development editor at Thomson Reuters, is ready to get started.
“My first and foremost goal is that I’ve got a lot of learning to do about how the Board of Education operates,” he said. “I really want to make sure I join the effort that’s already ongoing with the board and the school district and to make (the district) even better.”
A proposition to authorize the use of $1,125,000 from the bus purchase capital reserve fund to replace 11 buses was approved, 1,706 to 815.
