SCHROON LAKE -- After reducing the tax hike from 13 to 9 percent, Schroon Lake Central School Board will put the budget back up for public vote later this month.

The district's initial budget failed in a May 20 vote, 239 to 189, with many residents blaming the 13.8-percent tax increase that would have come with it.

So the district cut $168,615 from the budget, Superintendent Michael Bonnewell said, and came up with a $6.36 million spending plan to replace the $6.53 million budget that was defeated.

The new vote will be from noon to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 17, in the school lobby.

Budget information presentations will be at 8 tonight in the cafeteria and 4 p.m. Tuesday, June 10, in the gymnasium.

The amount to be raised by taxes dropped from $5.09 million in the initial budget to $4.9 million in this one.

CUTS

The cuts made to the proposed budget are:

$90,000 salary and benefits by eliminating a new position that would have assisted curriculum development, financial functions and student supervision.

$27,250 employee/retiree health-insurance cost savings.

$22,000 planned minivan replacement postponed.

$10,000 reduction in salary for teachers' advanced study.

$9,000 reduction in occupational education enrollments.

$9,000 reduction in transportation and custodial services.

$1,365 reduction in School Board development activities and clerical substitutes.