Shelter Island, Elwood school districts' second budgets approved by voters
In Elwood, a hamlet in the Town of Huntington, residents approved a $78,566,259 budget for the 2025-26 school year. The spending plan includes a 2.64% increase in the school property tax levy, higher than the district's state-imposed limit of 1.29%.
In Shelter Island, voters approved a $13,298,131 spending plan that stays within the district’s 2.13% tax cap.
The previous, unsuccessful budget of $13.86 million included a school property tax increase of 6.97%. In a statement earlier this month, district officials said they "thoughtfully and thoroughly revised the proposal to bring the tax levy within the state tax cap." District officials cut more than $550,000 by removing the pre-K program for 3-year-olds and the general education summer school, and by reducing other expenses.