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Manhasset to see small state aid boost
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District projecting 1.61% increase in funding, second lowest on N. Shore BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I Long Island schools are set to receive about $2.9 billion in state aid, a $100 million boost over the current year, but Manhasset is projected to get a small piece of that pie. Manhasset school district is projected to receive $4,583,588, a $72,633 or 1.61 percent increase in state aid funding over this year’s $4,510,955. Manhasset’s overall 2018-19 budget of! $96,318,582, a 2.59 percent increase over the current budget, with a 2.99 percent tax levy, the maximum allowed by the district. Despite the state aid being a fraction of the overall $96 million budget,! Rosemary Johnson,! the district’s deputy superintendent for business, said every bit of funding helps. “Every dollar of state aid is
important to us because we’re so tight, especially in this year where you have pension benefits going up 10 percent,” Johnson said. “The impact of those benefits alone is significant. “It’s devastating. There’s no cushion for districts and other municipalities from other things like that.” Manhasset is projected to receive the second lowest amount of state aid on the North Shore, just above Roslyn school district’s 1.34 percent or $72,121. East Williston Union Free School District will see the largest increase of schools in the area of about 6.81 percent. The district will receive! $3,516,353 in aid and! Herricks Public Schools will receive $11,157,010, a 4.26 percent increase from last year. Neighboring! Great Neck and Port Washington districts are seeing nearly double the average inContinued on Page 105
PHOTO COURTESY OF MANHASSET SCHOOL DISTRICT
During the Munsey Park Elementary School Winter Olympic games, students competed in a biathlon.
Steiner’s Pastry Shop closes after 39 years BY A M E L I A C A M U R AT I
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Steiner’s Pastry Shop closed its doors on Easter SunA day celebrated by Chris- day after serving Manhasset tians for rebirth and new life residents since 1979. Owner Franz Steiner, who was the final day for a longstanding Plandome Road sta- immigrated from Austria in
1969 and now lives in the Village of Great Neck, said he was forced to close the popular bakery he opened 39 years ago this month at 432 Plandome Road because Green’s Irish Pub, loContinued on Page 105
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