The Menands Board of Education approved on Jan. 13 a budget development calendar for the 2025-26 school year budget.
The plan details the step-by-step approach the board will take in putting together a spending plan that will go to voting public for approval on May 20.
The budget development calendar is as follows:
- Jan 27: Budget workshop.
- Feb. 10: Budget workshop.
- Feb. 28: Submit the 2024-2025 Calculation for Tax Levy to the Office of The State Comptroller, Tax and Finance, and State Education Department.
- March 10 and March 25: Budget workshops.
- April 23: Budget workshop: Adopt the budget and approval of the property tax report card.
- April 24: Submit property tax report card/administrator salary disclosure.
- April 30: Budget statement and attachments made available.
- May 7: Budget workshop: budget hearing.
- May 8: Mail budget newsletter including budget notice and property tax report card.
- May 20: Budget vote.
All meetings begin at either 6:30 p.m. or immediately following the Board of Education meeting, which begins at 6:30 p.m.
The district is operating with a $12.4 million budget approved by voters last May.