Pat-Med School Budget Fails

A proposed Patchogue-Medford school budget was defeated at the polls Monday after it failed to obtain a required 60-percent supermajority of the vote.

The proposed $173.1 million budget received 57 percent approval, 1,845-1,411. The budget needed a supermajority because the cost of a voter proposition on the ballot proposing to change the mileage limitation for transporting children to private and parochial high schools from 15 miles to 25 miles pushed the overall budget proposal over the tax cap. That voter proposition was easily defeated, receiving just 16 percent of the vote.

Incumbents Anthony O’Brien and Christine Rignola and challenger Bunnie Schiller won seats on the Patchogue-Medford Board of Education. All three ran unopposed.

See the full breakdown of results here.

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