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Glen Head F.D. First Assistant Chief Tom McGillicuddy said that they do not have the resources or the manpower to fight a potential fire from a battery energy storage system.
North Shore School District unveils budget
Residents call for moratorium extension on Jupiter Power’s proposed lithium battery storage plant By LUKE FEENEY lfeeney@liherald.com
The North Shore School District unveiled its $125 million proposed budget for the upcoming year, a roughly 2.4 percent increase from the prior year with increasing costs stemming from employee benefits, rising salaries as well as the implementation of a new curriculum. But nearly a dozen residents spoke during the public comment portion of the evening focused on a different matter: the soon-to-expire moratorium on the building of battery energy storage systems in the town of Oyster Bay. District Superintendent Chris Zublionis opened his pre-
sentation drawing an allusion between the district’s budgetary future and a foggy morning. “If you’ve ever driven across the viaduct on a foggy day, even though we’ve been over it thousands of times, it’s scary because you can only see ten feet in front of you,” Zublionis said. “There is so much unknown, but the unknown b e c o m e s c l e a r e r a s yo u advance,” A major contributor to the unknown described by Zublionis is the future of district revenues. Zublionis explained that while district revenues are stable for now, the district could face a more than $8 million revenue loss due to tax changes from the 2022 settlement
between the county and the LIPA Glenwood Landing in the 2027-2028 school year. The loss of revenue due to the LIPA settlement has had a significant impact on the district and its taxpayers. Homeowners in the district were paying about 55 percent of the share of taxes 25 years ago, that number today is up to more than 80 percent of the district’s tax class share. School tax bills could vary based on the increase of a home’s value each year, according to Zublionis. “We have limited clarity, we know what we are facing next year and likely the year after. Zublionis said. “It’s the year after that where there’s a lot of unknown.”
Despite the limited clarity on the future, Zublionis pointed to stability in numerous areas for the coming year including enrollment, the number of sections offered to students, programs, staffing, tax base, tax share, revenue loss, mandated costs and inflation. Zublionis and Assistant Superintendent for Business James Pappas introduced a proposed tax levy of roughly 2.9
percent for the next year, which hovers below the peak 3.195 percent allowable tax levy the district can impose. Employee benefits, rising s a l a r i e s, n ew c u r r i c u l u m implementations, various special education services, increases to security, as well as costs of supplies and contracts, and contracted transportation for special education, accountCONTINUED ON PAGE 2