Huntington 2021-22 School Budget Preview

Huntington NY

12 May, 2021

11:18 AM

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HUNTINGTON, NY — Residents are due to head to the polls on May 18 to vote on the Huntington Union Free School District 2021-22 budget. They will also elect three people to the district's board of education. The vote is scheduled at Huntington High School from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. The Huntington School District's proposed spending plan for the 2021-22 school year is $139,315,854. That's a $3,377,687 or 2.48 percent increase from the current budget of $135,938,167. To fund the increase, the district proposes a tax levy of $112,718,438 up 0.33 percent from the current year's. There are three capital projects on the ballot: $1.45 million for a partial roofing replacement at Huntington High School; $1.175 million for parking lot renovations, replacement of original gymnasium bleachers and replacement of gymnasium hallway flooring at J. Taylor Finley Middle School; and $900,000 for the replacement of two original building boilers at Jefferson Primary School. The school board candidates are incumbent Christine Biernacki, Thomas Galvin, Theresa Sullivan and Lynda Tine-D'Anna.