Nearby: South Country Budget Hearing Wednesday

South Country Central School District, which partially encompasses East Patchogue and Bellport, announced on their website that they will be having their next budget hearing in the Bellport Middle School Auditorium on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

The district's first proposed 2013-2014 budget failed on the May 21 vote as it did not get the supermajority vote it required to pass.

According to a presentation PDF on South Country's website (Slide 5), the district's options are now to resubmit to public vote on June 18 the original budget, submit a revised budget or adopt a contingency budget that levies a tax no greater than the previous year. The presentation says that a contingency budget would be a zero percent increase in tax levy. According to another presentation PDF on their website (Slide 14), if the re-submitted or revised budget also fails, cuts would then range from a minimum of $4,274,003 to over $7 million, which represents fund balance application and reserve appropriations in addition to the permissible tax levy increase.

The re-vote will be taking place June 18 from 7 a.m.-9 p.m. in the Bellport Middle School Gymnasium.

Bellport Middle School is located at 35 Kreamer Street in Bellport.

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