News & Opinion About Huletts Landing, N.Y.
This ran in Tuesday’s Albany Times Union and is quite clear. School districts across the state will be getting less state money next year.
This article in today’s Post Star notes that other school districts are already eliminating duplicate positions like dual principals. We will be examining this issue in the days ahead.
It looks like there won’t be any mid-year budget cuts to the Whitehall School District’s budget.
“A 90-minute meeting of the Democratic governor and legislative leaders was filled with accusations and some name calling. But they failed to approach any agreement on Paterson’s proposed $5 billion in spending cuts or any alternatives, some of which surfaced for the first time in the leaders’ meeting.”
This is a good article from the Albany Times Union about what is going on with the budget process, which will ultimately effect the budget for the Whitehall School District and Washington County.
The Post Star has this video which shows a bad crash on Route 4.
Please drive carefully. Route 4 has had a number of serious accidents lately.
From the Post Star:
This is pretty unprecedented. The issue becomes what will school districts around NY do; use their reserve accounts in the interim and hit property owners with increased taxes next year or actually get control of their spending. Remember the Whitehall school district spent $2.25 million two years ago on tennis courts and a building addition. Sadly the Whitehall school district has never shown a willingness to control spending.
In case you missed it, the Whitehall School district was recently told by the comptroller’s office that they had $150,000 over the amount that the law says they can have in one of their reserve accounts. They have a bunch of them.