The Ansonia Board of Apportionment and Taxation is scheduled to meet tonight to adopt a $60.6 million budget for next year.
The proposed budget includes a $1 million (or 3.7 percent) increase for Ansonia Public Schools.
The tax board had been weighing a 2 percent increase.
Two percent didn’t cover fixed school costs and would have resulted in some 40 layoffs and deep program cuts, school officials said. Last year about 24 people lost their jobs in the school district.
However, after a public hearing in which parents complained the increase wasn’t enough, the board decided to give the schools more money.
The move, which was approved at a tax board meeting May 16, is being opposed by two Republican members of the Board of Aldermen.
Both John Marini and Charles Stowe wrote to the Valley Indy saying the 2 percent increase had been discussed and endorsed at length by the Board of Aldermen and the tax board.
The tax board meeting tonight is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. in Ansonia City Hall at 253 Main St.
The new mill rate will be 39.335, if the newly-tweaked budget is adopted as is.
