Sharon Springs CSD Voters Approve Budget, Major Projects

SHARON SPRINGS — Voters in the Sharon Springs Central School District approved an $11.48 million budget with a 3 percent property tax increase and also two major projects on Tuesday.

The budget was approved by a 105-12 vote, according to numbers provided by Superintendent Thomas Yorke. The capital project proposition, which actually includes two projects, was also approved by an overwhelming margin, 103-15. It includes a maximum of $1 million to be spent on an energy performance contract that will involve a firm doing work on energy efficiency improvements, including lighting. It will pay for itself in savings over the course of several years, school officials have said.

The other project approved in the proposition was a maximum of $2.73 million to be spent on various kinds of work throughout the school and school grounds, including replacement of the boiler in the bus garage, bleacher improvements in the new gymnasium, repaving of sidewalks and parking lots and various other items.

Also approved, by a 98-18 vote, was $85,000 for purchase of a new school bus. School board member Sofia Issa was reelected to another five-year term. She received 109 votes while two write-in candidates received a total of six votes.