Voters Easily Approve Freeport School Budget, Incumbents Re-Elected to BOE

Freeport residents approved a 2016-17 school budget on Tuesday.

The $170.1 million budget was approved by a margin of 815 to194. The budget is a 1.80 percent spending increase over the current year and it comes with a 0.09 percent hike in the school tax levy.

Voters also returned Anthony J. Miller and Michael Pomerico to the Freeport Board of Education. The incumbents all ran unopposed for new three-year terms.