Residents can vote on the Riverhead Free Library Annual Budget Vote on Tuesday April 5 from 10 am to 8 pm. Voting is at the main library on Osborn and Court Street in the Grand Meeting Room.
The proposed annual budget is $3,305,607 or an increase in taxation of $225,531. The Library Board states that this represents an increase of $1.03 per month per household. It further states that the major part of the increase comes from large increases in the New York State Retirement estimate.
"If you are not being criticized,
you may not be doing much." - Donald Rumsfeld
"If you are not being criticized,
you may not be doing much." - Donald Rumsfeld
National Honor Society Inductees at Mercy
On this past Wednesday (March 30) 54 students of Bishop McGann-Mercy High School in Riverhead were inducted into the Sister Mary Euphrasia Chapter of the National Honor Society.
As a result of the budget proposal by Governor Cuomo and now passed by the NY State Legislature, Suffolk County School Districts will receive over $136 million dollars less in state aid than last year. The Riverhead School District will receive $2,360,341 less in aid or 12.9% less than previous years.
Will the local school board now revise it's budget for 2011-2012? Not sure.
"only one-third of the world is asleep
at any given time, and the other two-thirds
is up to something." - Dean Rusk
"only one-third of the world is asleep
at any given time, and the other two-thirds
is up to something." - Dean Rusk
Comptroller May Throw Hat in Ring
Suffolk County Comptroller Joe Sawicki is now considering a run for the County Executive job now that Steve Levy has decided not to run for a third term.
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