corning-painted post area school district

The Corning-Painted Post school district will lower its proposed 2025-26 budget amount and tax levy for a revote later this month. The district was awarded a $1.8 million grant from Corning Incorporated to bridge a deficit in the reduced budget, after voters rejected the first budget proposal.

WSKG’s Phoebe Taylor-Vuolo sat down with Ithaca reporter Aurora Berry and Elmira-Corning reporter Natalie Abruzzo this week, to talk through some of the more contentious local school budget elections.

Corning-Painted Post school district voters rejected the $8.7 million increase in the proposed budget over last year. The district will decide how to move forward at its board meeting on Wednesday.

Corning-Painted Post school district voters will decide on a $147 million budget and 8 percent tax levy this year. They will also elect board members. Some are returning for another term and others are looking to join the board for a first term.

The Corning-Painted Post Area school district will vote on a proposed $147 million budget and elect several board members on May 20. Some community members have expressed concerns about losing important programs for students if the budget does not pass. Others are unsettled about the rising costs and high tax levy.

Corning-Painted Post school officials approved an $8.7 million increase from last year’s budget. Now, they must get 60 percent of voters to agree with them at the polls in May in order for the budget to pass.

During a special meeting of the Corning-Painted Post school board on Wednesday, the district approved payments for three separate settlements with survivors of alleged child sexual abuse and sexual assault dating back five decades.

Three school districts in the Southern Tier successfully passed new school budgets on Tuesday.The Newfield, Ithaca, and Corning Painted-Post school districts all brought forward updated versions of the budget for a revote after their original proposals failed to pass in May. These revamped proposals cut spending and lowered proposed tax levies.

Last month, voters rejected a $139 million proposed budget with a tax levy of 4.97 percent. A newly proposed $138 million budget has a tax levy of 2.97 percent. Voters will cast their ballots Tuesday.

The Corning-Painted Post school board met last month to propose a new budget for a revote on June 18.