Superintendent's Office

Dear Remsen Community,

We have been hard at work preparing our Student Opportunities Plan (proposed budget) for the 2025-2026 school year.  Thoughtful planning and monthly Board of Education work sessions enabled our team to develop a fiscally responsible budget, responsive to our students’ needs, with only a slight tax levy increase of 1%.  This increase is well below our allowable New York State Property Tax Cap levy increase limit and reflects our continued commitment to balance the needs of our school district with the challenges that we all realize.

In addition to voting on the proposed 2025-2026 budget in the amount of $14,969,506, we will also be voting on one proposition.  The proposition on the ballot will be for the purchase of two 66-passenger diesel school buses and one 20-passenger gas school bus.  The proposed purchase is part of an ongoing bus replacement plan designed to keep the District’s fleet in safe, working order by phasing out buses that are no longer cost effective to maintain. If the proposition is approved, the actual cost to the District will be significantly less than the amount sought.  Approximately 85.9% of the cost would be reimbursable through state aid.

Remsen is a very special place to live, learn, and work.  Together, we understand that our goal must always be to ensure that we leave our children, for generations to come, with an even better community and school than we have today.  This is accomplished by continuing to work together to provide our children with a solid academic foundation, full of diverse learning opportunities and experiences.  Even if you currently do not have students enrolled in school, your support of Remsen Central plays a critical role in raising, teaching, and growing our youth into productive, responsible, kind, hard-working citizens.  

Our budget hearing will take place on Tuesday, May 13th at 6:00 PM in the elementary library media center.  Please consider joining us to learn more about our Student Opportunities Plan and to hear from our one Board of Education candidate seeking election.  If you are unable to attend, the full presentation will be posted to our webpage shortly thereafter.  Additional budget and Board of Education election information may also be found throughout this newsletter.  Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.

Our school budget vote will take place on Tuesday, May 20th, from 1:00 PM until 8:00 PM in the Elementary cafeteria.  Voter parking spaces will be reserved at the front of elementary parking lot closest to the cafeteria doors.  Back by popular demand, our FFA students will be selling plants outside of the cafeteria doors starting at 3:00 PM and student artwork will be on display for all to enjoy.

Thank you for your unwavering support of our school community.  We remain dedicated to cultivating and supporting each student’s individual abilities and interests as they confidently work to realize their full potential to lead happy, healthy, successful lives.  Working together, we will ensure that our students continue to Soar to Success!

It is an honor and a privilege to be your superintendent, a graduate of RCS, and a lifelong resident of the Remsen Central School District. 

Sincerely, 

 

 

Superintendent