What's next after Corning-Painted Post budget was rejected by voters? What we know.

What's next after Corning-Painted Post School District voters turned down the district's proposed 2024-25 budget on Tuesday?

The Corning-Painted Post School District Budget Committee will work over the next 10 days to create a new spending plan to bring to the community for a June 18 vote, said C-PP School Superintendent Michelle Caulfield.

The proposed $139,181,455 budget, which would have raised the tax levy 4.97%, was rejected by voters Tuesday, 1,431-1,418.

The budget needed to receive a supermajority of at least 60% to pass because it exceeded the state tax cap. It got support from just over half of voters.

Caulfield said C-PP now has three options.

“We can come out with the same budget, we can come out with a budget at or under the tax cap, or we could move to contingency,” Caulfield said. "My guess is that we’ll come back at or below the tax cap.”

The new C-PP spending plan vote will be 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, at the same voting locations.

When asked why the proposed budget failed, Caulfield said C-PP officials looked at several different possible factors.

“I think generally, across the board of our communities, that inflation was a factor,” Caulfield said. “Some of our homes were reassessed in the last couple of weeks and people were just notified. I don’t know if that played into some of their reasonings.”

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The C-PP School District Budget Committee will make a recommendation to the C-PP Board of Education in the coming days and the Board of Education must approve that spending plan before June 4.

No date has been set for the next C-PP Board of Education meeting, Caulfield said.

This article originally appeared on The Leader: Corning-Painted Post school budget to go back before voters June 18