Jefferson Central Budget Fails

JEFFERSON - For the second year in a row, voters of the Jefferson Central School district defeated the budget proposal.

Marissa DeJoy received 52 write-in votes to be seated on the school's board of education. There were 20 other write-in candidates with no one running on this year's ballot.

The proposed $8,185,083 budget showed an increase of $47,263 from the current budget.  It reflected a 0.58 percent increase in the tax levy and remains within the state's allowable tax cap. The budget failed by 122 no votes to 93 yes votes.

There is also a bus proposition to purchase one 61-passenger  wheelchair accessible school bus, the cost not to exceed $176,492, less trade-in value. That proposition failed by a vote of 115 no to 100 yest.