Wantagh School Budget Passes By 1,586-To-682 Vote Margin

WANTAGH, NY — Results are in for the Wantagh school board and school budget election that took place today, and district officials say the proposition to sell the property at 1865 Beech Street narrowly passed. Tara Cassidy and Joseph Dunn have also won school board seats while the $98 million budget passed, district officials said.

The budget passed by a 1,586-to-682-vote margin, while Cassidy received 1,460 votes for her school board seat and Dunn received 1,592 for his.

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In the closest vote of the evening, the Beech Street proposition passed with 1,157 "yes" votes compared to 1,109 "no" votes.

The $98,381,547 budget for next school year is a 3.87 percent increase in the budget over this year's, which the district plans to fund through a $71,388,942 tax levy. That tax levy, the district says, is an increase of 3.48 percent over this year’s budget, falling just below the maximum allowable tax levy of $71,389,062.

The Beech Street proposition, now passed, will allow the district to sell the property to a developer who plans to build a pair of single-family homes on the property, district officials said. District officials previously said the property would fetch a $1.075 million price on the market.