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The tiny East End district will eliminate prekindergarten and reduce special education services. It had to adopt a contingency budget, which includes a tax freeze, after losing two consecutive budget votes earlier this year.
West Hempstead's proposed $74,125,176 budget carries a 4.2% spending increase, and a property-tax hike of 1.99%. Wainscott offered a reduced budget of $6,144,331, along with a whopping tax-levy increase of more than 95%.
The district is one of only two on Long Island where proposed budgets went down in the initial round of voting last month.
The new budget plan is slightly less than the one voters rejected May 16, but it's an overall increase of 48.8% over the current school year's budget.
Voters went to the polls Tuesday. A record $771 million infusion of state financial aid for the region is allowing some districts to boost budgets while also curbing taxes.