CCS School Budget
OK’d By Big Margin
Bus, Library Resolutions Also Win Approval
COOPERSTOWN – When the polls closed at 8 this evening, Cooperstown Central School District voters had approved the 2016-17 $18 million school budget, 388 to 102. It includes a .43 percent increase in the tax levy.
Voters approved a proposition to acquire buses, 416-70. The budget for the Village Library of Cooperstown and Hartwick’s Kinney Memorial Library, also on the ballot, was approved 387-101.
Two candidates ran for two vacancies on the school board. Incumbent Mary Leonard received 408 votes. Newcomer Marielle Ainsworth received 398 votes.
