Budget Fact Sheets

Want to learn more about some of the biggest challenges that schools throughout New York State are facing? Read through or download these fact sheets (PDF) below.

1. BUDGET VOTES: Explains the new supermajority and contingency rules.
2. NEW YORK’S PROPERTY TAX LEVY CAP: Provides FAQs and answers about the state legislation.
3. THE 3 TAX LEVY NUMBERS: Explains the different tax levy figures that schools will be talking about again this year.
4. TAX LEVY LIMIT FORMULA: Provides an annotated explanation of the tax levy “cap” formula.
5. MANDATES AND MANDATE RELIEF: Explains what mandates are and recaps the decades-old efforts to provide relief.
6. PENSIONS: Explains public pensions, the latest pension “reform” changes and how the tax levy “cap” exclusion works.
7. GEA: Explains New York state’s Gap Elimination Adjustment and its effect on Cazenovia Central Schools.
8. STAR: Explains STAR, the School TAx Relief program launched in New York state in 1998-99.