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Only one district in the Hudson Valley failed to have its school budget denied by voters.
Voters came out in force on Tuesday, May 18, and all budgets were passed in Rockland, Westchester, and Putnam counties outside of the Carmel School District, where voters narrowly rejected the spending plan by less than 200 votes.
In Putnam County, the Carmel Board of Education will have to propose a new budget that voters will decide on in a second vote after residents denied the previous spending plan by a 1,296 to 1,125 vote, or adopt a contingency budget.
The Carmel School Board said it will meet on Thursday, May 20 to determine the next steps, following the defeat of its proposed $133,581,366 budget for the 2021-2022 school year.