001Hello everyone and welcome to the superintendent's corner. My name is Ivan Katz and I am the proud superintendent of the Fallsburg Central School District. In this video segment, I will summarize our budget season planning as it leads up to the budget vote on Tuesday, May 20th, 2025. Budget season planning began last November with our staff working together to create their budget requests for the next school year. The board budget committee began meeting in January to review all of the gathered budget planning information and to ultimately put together a budget that balances what students and staff need with the capacity of our taxpayers. On April 22nd, 2025, the Board of Education adopted version three of the budget, which carries with it a tax levy increase of 1.5%. The board and school administration went through three other
002budget versions, making appropriate reductions to finalize version three of the budget, which comes in with a small tax levy increase. This is the budget that the Fallsburg school community will vote on in May. Although we won't have exact numbers until the tax warrant is released in August, we estimate the tax levy impact on a house valued at $100,000 to be less than $20. For the last six years, the board was able to put forward budgets that had no increase to the tax levy. In fact, including this budget, we have a 7-year average tax levy decrease of.73%. The budget vote and board elections will take place on Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Board of Education meeting room. Please come out and vote to make your voice heard. Thank you
003and happy spring to everyone.