PROPOSITION NO. 1 – 2020-2021 Budget
SHALL THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION BE ADOPTED: RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Gorham-Middlesex Central School District is hereby authorized to expend the sum of $33,598,700 as a general fund appropriation for the 2020-2021 school year and to levy the necessary tax therefor.
NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN, that voters at the annual meeting shall vote, by absentee ballot, on the election of Board of Education Members, and on the following propositions, and on such other propositions as are authorized by law and the rules of this Board to be voted on at said time:
PROPOSITION NO. 2 – Buses
Be it RESOLVED, to authorize the purchase of motor vehicles for use in the transportation program of the District, including four 70 passenger school buses and one 30 passenger school bus, at a maximum estimated cost of $490,475 expend therefore and aggregate sum not to exceed $490,475, and be it further RESOLVED, that the sum of $490,475 being the aggregate of the aforesaid maximum estimated amounts, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be appropriated from the existing School Bus Replacement Capital Reserve Fund, the unassigned fund balance or raised by the levy of a tax upon the taxable property in the District and collected in annual installments as provided in Section 416 of the Education Law, and in anticipation of such tax, obligations of the District shall be issued; and be it further RESOLVED that the District shall be authorized to enter into one or more purchase contracts on terms satisfactory to the Board of Education, with respect to one or more of the vehicles hereby
authorized to be acquired.
PROPOSITION NO. 3- Library Funding
Shall the proposition be approved authorizing the Board of Education of the Marcus Whitman School District to levy taxes annually in the amount of $54,600 and to pay over such moneys to the trustees of the Gorham Free Library?
PROPOSITION NO. 4- Library Funding
Shall the proposition be approved authorizing the Board of Education of the Marcus Whitman School District to levy taxes annually in the amount of $9,997 and to pay over such moneys to the Town of Middlesex for disbursement to the Middlesex Reading Center?
PROPOSITION NO. 5- Library Funding
Shall the proposition be approved authorizing the Board of Education of the Marcus Whitman School District to levy taxes annually in the amount of $8,000 and to pay over such moneys to the Village of Rushville for disbursement to the Rushville Reading Center?
Board of Education
Three seats for the Board of Education, each for three-year terms, beginning July 1, 2020 and ending June 30, 2023 will be filled; these seats are currently occupied by Jeff Allen, Sue Campbell and Phyllis Frantel.
