Here's how the rest of the FLX voted
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Key Points:
- Several Upstate New York school districts, including Odessa-Montour, Prattsburgh, and Spencerport, saw their proposed budgets rejected due to tax levy increases exceeding state caps or narrow voter margins.
- Some districts failed to meet the required supermajority for tax levy increases despite majority support, causing budget proposals to fail under New York’s tax cap law.
- Close votes marked several districts, with Auburn approving a $112 million budget by a slim margin and significant school board turnover occurring, including the defeat of longtime incumbent Dr. Eliezer Hernández.
- Most districts in the Finger Lakes and surrounding regions approved budgets, transportation propositions, reserve funds, and library funding, with many passing large capital reserve measures and transportation-related funding.
- Electric bus purchase proposals had mixed results, with some districts like Dansville and Hilton rejecting these specific measures even as their overall budgets passed.