APW and Owego-Apalachin passed their revised school budgets on Tuesday night, but Dolgeville is now headed to a contingency budget. 

The three districts were the ones in the region to have their original budgets fail the vote back on May 21. Each district has spent the last few weeks revising their plan.

The new $18,662,364 budget plan for Dolgeville failed to win a majority of voters. It called for a 5.9 percent tax levy. That's down from the original 11 percent proposed hike. However, that means there would've been cuts to programs and staff, including 6.5 teaching positions, one principal position and a summer learning camp for elementary students.

The budget required a supermajority of 60 percent support to go through but the district missed that number by 40 votes. So now they go to a contingency budget, which means the district can't spend anymore than they have this year, or more than the public approved for last year's budget.

They also have to halt equipment purchases and only spend money for emergency maintenance.

"It makes us worried that we're trying to rebuild next year," said Superintendent Lynn Rhone. "So if we're trying to rebuild with a couple hundred thousand dollars less, that might be positions that need to be cut next year, and programs that need to be cut next year, and that's not what we want to do."

Dolgeville is facing a $2.6 million deficit.  But that will have to be addressed sometime down the road

Meanwhile, the Owego-Apalachin’s amended plan passed, meaning the tax levy will decrease to 2.83 percent from 3.83 percent after the voters approved of the school budget of $47,761,210. While the decision compromises to the community, the school district will now have to cut more than $170,000 in the current budget. If the budget failed, a contingency budget would have required more than $600,000 worth of cuts.

In the APW Central School District, the revised budget passed with 390 voters approving while 354 were against the updated budget.