Last week the Sachem School District Board of Education met for the first time since its 2013-14 budget plan failed to garner the 60% supermajority needed to pass.
The vote has forced the board back to a 3.14% tax cap retreat. The tax cap budget scenario will call for $6 million in cuts. When the public learned that some of those cuts could include school clubs and programs such as cheerleading, the marching band, dramatic productions and kindergarten, the turned out in the hundreds. Watch our video mashup of some of the public comments from the meeting.
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