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FOCUS ON EXCELLENCE RYE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | BUDGET EDITION | JUNE 2020 DEAR RYE RESIDENTS: The Rye City School District Board of Education and administration bring to the community an annual budget for the 2020-2021 school year that is under the tax cap. The budget funds an educational program for an anticipated enrollment of 3,219 students; at a1.57% budget-to-budget increase rate, it is the lowest increase in 10 years. Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, the Superintendent’s Recommended Budget was originally presented as $92,880,199. After significant reductions, it now stands $488,738 lower at $92,391,461. The annual school district budget vote and Board of Education trustee election was originally to have been held on May 19 this year. As a result of the COVID-19 crisis, Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered school districts to instead hold budget votes and elections on June 9 via mail-in ballot. Ballots and return envelopes have been mailed to all Rye qualified registered voters and must be received by the District Clerk by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 9, in order to be counted. Voters may return their ballots via U.S. Mail or submit them in person to the District Clerk via a ballot drop box, accessible during normal business hours and located in the vestibule of the District’s Central Administration office at 555 Theodore Fremd Avenue, Suite B-101, Rye, NY, from now until June 9 at 5:00 p.m. The Board of Education and District administration are mindful of the fiscal uncertainty now facing our community and individual taxpayers. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the Board and School District administration took action to lower the tax burden on Rye residents. These are ongoing considerations for the 2020-2021 budget and also holds true for the capital projects approved by the community last year. The District and its Facilities Committee will make appropriate modifications and decisions to those projects keeping the forefront. Similar to years past, 79 percent of the 2020-2021 School District budget goes towards salaries and benefits for our dedicated faculty and staff who quickly adjusted to remote learning for the final quarter of the school year. We have been able to identify reductions on the administrative side and trim expenses associated with busing and textbooks. The District anticipates that there will be a number of new costs associated with reopening schools and enacting new CDC-mandated health and safety protocols, including keeping school buildings sanitized to protect students, their families, faculty, and staff. We also anticipate there will be increased costs associated with technology as we continue to use remote learning to keep the number of students inside our buildings at a socially-distanced level. We are immensely proud of how fast our teachers were able to shift their teaching approaches and begin delivering online instruction and how they have continued to evolve their skills. Schools closed on March 13 and remote schooling began March 17. We know this was not the case with many of our peer districts. It is a testimony to the dedication and profession- alism of our teachers and administrators that they were able to make the shift so quickly. While nothing can replace live, in- person instruction by a wonderful teacher, teaching and learn- ing is taking place remotely. We have been so impressed by and thankful for how our teachers, students, and parents have collaborated together and adapted to the technology needed to make distance learning not only possible, but successful. Sincerely, Rye City School District Board of Education Jennifer Boyle, President Jane Anderson, Callie Erickson, Blake Jines-Storey, Kelly Smith-Powers, Chris Repetto financial stability of the School District and community at the PLEASE VOTE VIA MAIL-IN BALLOT BY TUESDAY, JUNE 9 BY 5PM
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RYE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | BUDGET EDITION | JUNE 2020
DEAR RYE RESIDENTS:
The Rye City School District Board of Education and administration bring to the community an annual budget for the 2020-2021 school year that is under the tax cap. The budget funds an educational program for an anticipated enrollment of 3,219 students; at a1.57% budget-to-budget increase rate, it is the lowest increase in 10 years. Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, the Superintendent’s Recommended Budget was originally presented as $92,880,199. After significant reductions, it now stands $488,738 lower at $92,391,461.
The annual school district budget vote and Board of Education trustee election was originally to have been held on May 19 this year. As a result of the COVID-19 crisis, Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered school districts to instead hold budget votes and elections on June 9 via mail-in ballot. Ballots and return envelopes have been mailed to all Rye qualified registered voters and must be received by the District Clerk by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 9, in order to be counted. Voters may return their ballots via U.S. Mail or submit them in person to the District Clerk via a ballot drop box, accessible during normal business hours and located in the vestibule of the District’s Central Administration office at 555 Theodore Fremd Avenue, Suite B-101, Rye, NY, from now until June 9 at 5:00 p.m.
The Board of Education and District administration are mindful of the fiscal uncertainty now facing our community and individual taxpayers. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the Board and School District administration took action to lower the tax burden on Rye residents. These are ongoing considerations for the 2020-2021 budget and also holds true for the capital projects approved by the community last year. The District and its Facilities Committee will make appropriate modifications and decisions to those projects keeping the
forefront. Similar to years past, 79 percent of the 2020-2021 School District budget goes towards salaries and benefits for our dedicated faculty and staff who quickly adjusted to remote learning for the final quarter of the school year. We have been able to identify reductions on the administrative side and trim expenses associated with busing and textbooks.
The District anticipates that there will be a number of new costs associated with reopening schools and enacting new CDC-mandated health and safety protocols, including keeping school buildings sanitized to protect students, their families, faculty, and staff. We also anticipate there will be increased costs associated with technology as we continue to use remote learning to keep the number of students inside our buildings at a socially-distanced level.
We are immensely proud of how fast our teachers were able to shift their teaching approaches and begin delivering online instruction and how they have continued to evolve their skills. Schools closed on March 13 and remote schooling began March 17. We know this was not the case with many of our peer districts. It is a testimony to the dedication and profession-alism of our teachers and administrators that they were able to make the shift so quickly. While nothing can replace live, in-person instruction by a wonderful teacher, teaching and learn-ing is taking place remotely. We have been so impressed by and thankful for how our teachers, students, and parents have collaborated together and adapted to the technology needed to make distance learning not only possible, but successful.
Sincerely, Rye City School District Board of Education Jennifer Boyle, President Jane Anderson, Callie Erickson, Blake Jines-Storey, Kelly Smith-Powers, Chris Repetto
financial stability of the School District and community at the
PLEASE VOTE VIA MAIL-IN BALLOT BY TUESDAY, JUNE 9 BY 5PM
BOARD OF EDUCATION
CANDIDATES There are TWO seats up for election on the Board of Education. Candidate names as they will appear on the ballot:
1A. James Culyer 2A. Vivek Kamath
3A. Pooja Kotecha 4A. John Leonard
5A. Petra Nemeth 6A. Mia Schultz
7A. Tom Stein
For more information about the candidates, including short biographies, quotes, and pictures, please visit the Rye City School District website at https://www.ryeschools.org/BOEcandidates
TOTAL DISTRICT PROPOSED BUDGET: $92,391,461 ESTIMATED TAX RATE INCREASE:2.21% | BUDGET-TO-BUDGET INCREASE 1.57%
BUDGET REDUCTIONS Instructional Staffing Reductions � 1 FTE Director of Literacy � 1 FTE CPSE Chairperson � 1 FTE Elementary Teaching Position
OTHER BUDGET REDUCTIONS � $60K reduction in transportation costs � $60K reduction in textbook funds District-wide
BUDGET REALLOCATIONS RELATED TO COVID-19 � $150K reduction from Health Coverage to IT for classroom
equipment to support live streaming capabilities
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SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET NOTICE SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET NOTICE
The annual budget vote for the fiscal year 2020-21 by the qualified voters of the Rye City School District, Westchester County, New York, will be held on
Tuesday, June 9, 2020, as mandated by the Governor of New York State’s Executive Order NO. 202.26. Pursuant to the Executive Order, the vote will be
conducted by absentee ballot only.
1. The basic school tax relief (STAR) exemption is authorized by section 425 of the Real Property Tax Law.
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PRESUPUESTO DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR DE LA CIUDAD DE RYE EDICIÓN DE JUNIO DE 2020
ESTIMADOS RESIDENTES DE RYE:
La Junta de Educación y la administración del Distrito Escolar de la Ciudad de Rye presentan a la comunidad un presupuesto anual para el año escolar 2020-2021 que está por debajo del límite de impuestos. El presupuesto financia el programa ed-ucativo para la matrícula anticipada de 3,219 alumnos; con una tasa de incremento de 1.57% sobre el presupuesto ante-rior, es el incremento más bajo de los últimos 10 años. Antes de la crisis del COVID-19, el Presupuesto Recomendado del Superintendente se presentó originalmente en la cantidad de $92,880,199. Luego de reducciones significantes, en este mo-mento se ha bajado por $488,738 a la cantidad de $92,391,461.
La votación sobre el presupuesto anual del distrito escolar y la elección de la Junta de Educación fueron programadas origi-nalmente para el 19 de mayo de este año. Debido a la crisis del COVID-19, el Gobernador Andrew Cuomo ordenó que los distritos escolares celebraran las votaciones sobre pre-supuestos y las elecciones el 9 de junio por medio de papele-tas de votación en ausencia. Se han enviado las papeletas y los sobres para devolverlas a todos los votantes calificados de Rye que se han inscrito, y se deberán entregar al Secretario del Dis-trito antes de las 5:00 p.m. el martes 9 de junio para incluirse en el conteo. Los votantes podrán devolver sus papeletas por el Servicio de Correo de los EE. UU. o entregarlas en persona al Secretario del Distrito en el buzón para papeletas, al cual se puede acceder durante las horas laborables normales en el vestíbulo de la oficina de la Administración Central del Distrito en 555 Theodore Fremd Avenue, Suite B-101, Rye, NY, en cualquier momento hasta el 9 de junio a las 5:00 p.m.
La Junta de Educación y la administración del Distrito están conscientes de la incertidumbre fiscal que nuestra comunidad y nuestros contribuyentes individuales afrontan en este mo-mento. Tras la crisis financiera de 2008, la Junta y la adminis-tración del Distrito Escolar implementaron medidas para reducir la carga fiscal sobre los residentes de Rye. Estas son consideraciones continuas para el presupuesto de 2020-2021 y también se aplican a los proyectos de capital que la comu-nidad aprobó el año pasado. El Distrito y su Comité de Instala-ciones realizarán modificaciones y tomarán decisiones apropiadas en cuanto a esos proyectos para mantener al frente la estabilidad financiera del Distrito Escolar y de la comunidad.
De manera similar a los años anteriores, el 79 por ciento del presupuesto del Distrito Escolar de 2020-2021 es destinado a pagar los salarios y beneficios de los miembros dedicados de nuestro personal y facultad, quienes se ajustaron rápidamente al aprendizaje a distancia durante el último trimestre del año escolar. Hemos logrado identificar unas reducciones por el lado administrativo y recortar los gastos correspondientes al servicio de autobuses y los libros escolares.
El Distrito anticipa que habrá varios gastos nuevos asociados con la reapertura de las escuelas y la implementación de los protocolos de salud y seguridad que el CDC ha mandado, in-cluyendo la desinfección continua de los edificios escolares que servirá para proteger a los alumnos, sus familias, la facul-tad, y el personal. También anticipamos que habrá mayores gastos correspondientes a la tecnología mientras continuamos usando el aprendizaje a distancia para mantener el número de alumnos dentro de nuestros edificios en un nivel que permite el distanciamiento social.
Estamos sumamente orgullosos de la rapidez con que nue-stros docentes pudieron cambiar sus enfoques de enseñanza y comenzar a proveer instrucción por Internet, y la manera en que han mejorado continuamente sus habilidades. Las escue-las se cerraron el 13 de marzo y la escuela a distancia empezó el 17 de marzo. Sabemos que esto no fue el caso con muchos de nuestros distritos vecinos. El hecho que nuestros docentes y administradores pudieron hacer este cambio tan rápidamente pone de manifiesto su dedicación y profesionalismo. Aunque nada puede reemplazar la instrucción en vivo y en personal de un docente maravilloso, la enseñanza y el aprendizaje ahora siguen a distancia. Nos hemos quedado impresionados y agradecidos por la manera en que nuestros docentes, alum-nos, padres, y madres han colaborado y se han adaptado a la tecnología necesaria para que el aprendizaje a distancia fuera no solamente posible, sino exitoso.
Atentamente, Rye City School District Board of Education Jennifer Boyle, Presidenta Jane Anderson, Callie Erickson, Blake Jines-Storey, Kelly Smith-Powers, Chris Repetto
POR FAVOR, VOTE POR CORREO A DISTANCIA ANTES DEL MARTES, 9 DE JUNIO, A LAS 5:00 PM
CANDIDATOS PARA LA JUNTA DE EDUCACIÓN
Hay dos plazas disponibles en la Junta de Educación para esta elección. Los nombres de los candidatos en la forma en que
aparecerán en la papeleta:
1A. James Culyer 2A. Vivek Kamath
3A. Pooja Kotecha 4A. John Leonard
5A. Petra Nemeth 6A. Mia Schultz
7A. Tom Stein
Para más información sobre los candidatos, incluyendo biografías breves, citas, y fotografías, visite la página web del Distrito Escolar de la Ciudad de Rye: https://www.ryeschools.org/BOEcandidates
TOTAL DEL PRESUPUESTO PROPUESTO DEL DISTRITO: $92,391,461 AUMENTO ESTIMADO DE LA TASA DE IMPUESTO: 2.21%
AUMENTO DEL PRESUPUESTO ANTERIOR 1.57%
REDUCCIONES PRESUPUESTARIAS OTRAS REDUCCIONES PRESUPUESTARIAS Reducciones del Personal de Instrucción � Reducción de $60 mil en gastos de transporte � 1 FTE Director de Alfabetización � Reducción de $60 mil en fondos para libros escolares para el � 1 FTE Presidente de CPSE Distrito entero � 1 FTE Plaza de Docente de Primaria
REASIGNACIONES PRESUPUESTARIAS RELACIONADAS CON EL COVID-19 � Reducción de $150 mil de Cobertura Médica con destino a Informática
para equipos de aula que se usarán para apoyar las capacidades de transmisión en vivo
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AVISO SOBRE EL PRESUPUESTO DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR
AVISO SOBRE EL PRESUPUESTO DEL DISTRITO ESCOLAR
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VOTING INFORMATION
INFORMACIÓN DE VOTACIÓN
WHO MAY VOTE All Rye City School District residents who are registered voters are eligible to vote. Registered voters must be, by law, 18 years of age, a United States citizen and a resi-dent of the Rye City School District for at least 30 days preceding June 9.
QUIÉN PODRÁ VOTAR Todos los residentes del Distrito Escolar de la Ciudad de Rye que se han inscrito y reúnen los requisitos para votar. Según la ley, los votantes inscritos deberán tener 18 años de edad, ser ciudadanos estadounidenses, y ser residentes del Distrito Escolar de la Ciudad de Rye por un mínimo de los 30 días anteriores al 9 de junio.
POR FAVOR, VOTE POR CORREO A DISTANCIA ANTES DEL MARTES, 9 DE JUNIO, A LAS 5:00 PM
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