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Residents in the North Tonawanda School District rejected a proposed $65 million school budget Tuesday, May 17.
The budget, which included cuts to staff and programs had a 1,121 to 813 vote.
Board members must now decide if they should amend to budget plan and have another vote or accept a contingency budget, which would include more mandated cuts to the district.
The $64,633,961 budget that voters did not vote through came with a tax levy of 1.95 percent.
The board will have until June to amend the budget or go with a contingency.
As for the board of education, incumbent Frank DiBernardo was re-elected, receiving 1,059 votes.
Also elected was Donna Braun, who won with 1,177 votes and Colleen Osborn with 989 votes.
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There is no way they should be spending that much on education when the amount of money they spend now is going to waste.
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