Plans Are Ready for Voters

School boards in East Hampton, Bridgehampton, and Sag Harbor unanimously voted last week to approve budget proposals that stay within state-mandated limits on tax levy increases.

Sag Harbor’s budget is a $37.55 million proposal that carries a budget-to-budget increase of 1.58 percent. The district’s tax levy increase was capped at 2.53 percent, but the tax levy in the adopted budget actually stayed below that level, coming in at 2.49 percent.

Bridgehampton’s budget is a $12.82 million proposal that represents a budget-to-budget increase of 3.99 percent. The associated tax levy is about $11 million, which is a 3.51-percent increase over the current year’s tax levy.

East Hampton’s budget proposal is $66.08 million, which carries a 1.55-percent year-over-year increase in spending. The tax levy is $48.66 million, which is an increase of $773,200 over last year’s tax levy, or 1.61 percent. This year, East Hampton’s limit on tax levy increase was 1.81 percent.