While a majority of school district budgets were approved across Western New York, voters rejected school budgets in five districts.
Cuba-Rushford, Grand Island, Lyndonville, Randolph, and West Valley school districts must now go back to the drawing board and figure out their next steps: to modify budgets, put the same spending plan up for a revote or adopt a contingency budget.
Under state law, any revote must happen on June 16. If a second vote fails, the districts adopt a contingency budget.
Some voters argued the budgets were too expensive…