Riverhead school budget

The school board last week had a presentation of the administrations proposals for the general support and debt service aspects of the 2023-2024 budget.

Riverhead Central School District voters Tuesday approved the district's $169.7 million operating budget for the upcoming school year and re-elected incumbent trustees Laurie Downs and Matthew Wallace, who beat back a challenge by newcomer Andrew Nadeau.

Residents of the Riverhead Central School District will vote tomorrow on whether to adopt a $169.7 operating budget for the 2022-2023 school year during the annual budget vote tomorrow. 

Editorial: The budget proposed by Riverhead school officials is fiscally conservative, while satisfying the educational and social needs of our children, thanks in part to long-overdue increases in state education aid. This budget deserves the community’s support and we urge you to vote “yes” on Tuesday.

The three school board candidates made pitches for election at Tuesday night's school board meeting, after a public hearing on the proposed budget that drew little public comment. The budget vote and board election take place May 17.

The Riverhead Central School District will host two budget presentations in the upcoming weeks to field questions from the community in advance of the 2022-2023 budget hearing and vote.

The Riverhead Board of Education Tuesday night adopted a $169.7 million proposed operating budget for the 2022-2023 school year. The budget is a 6.5% spending increase over the current year's adopted budget, and requires a 1% real property tax levy increase, bringing the total tax levy to $105.6 million next year.

Riverhead school district's operating budget will increase to $170.6 million for the 2022-2023 school year, an increase of $11.1 million (7%) over the current year's adopted budget, if the plan proposed by the administration is adopted by the board of education and approved by district voters.

The Riverhead Central School District’s 2022-23 budget proposal includes a more than 5% increase in expenditures for general classroom teaching, instruction and...

District officials are developing a budget for the next fiscal year working under a 2.27% tax levy cap and an anticipated $8.4 million boost in state aid.