Voters approve LP school budget; Smith, Blair elected to board

The Lake Placid Central School District budget for 2010-11 passed yesterday by a vote of 572 to 269.

Voters approved the spending plan which totals just over $16 million – a 1.54 percent increase over the previous year’s budget. The tax levy will increase by 3.45 percent.

A proposition to lease a pair of 66-passenger school buses over a period of no more than five years also passed by a margin of 568 to 268. The cost for that item is no more than $39,000 per year.