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Apr
BROADALBIN — Property owners in the Broadalbin-Perth Central School District could see a nearly 1% tax increase next collection cycle. On Monday, the BPCSD Board of Education approved a 0.95% proposed increase on the local tax levy for the second consecutive years. This would account for an additional $155,815 funneled from the three-county district. Dovetailed with the increase is a $41,266,000 draft budget OK'd by school policymakers in late March. Funding for the 3.86% spending increase — a change from 2.5% last year — would come primarily through local taxes, the district fund balance and prospective state foundation aid. "The…