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Herricks Board of Education Notebook: March 21

Other news from the March 21 board of education meeting.

The Herricks Board of Education held a meeting on Thursday, March 21. Here are some of the things you may have missed.

Tax Certiorari Fund

  • The board approved a measure that the moneys being kept in a reserve fund to pay tax certiorari settlements for property tax refunds “are not reasonably required to pay judgements” for the fiscal year and returned those moneys to the general fund.
  • The board had in July 2012 in order to potentially pay property tax settlements stemming from the repeal of the county guarantee.
  • School districts recently won a legal battle with the county stating that they did not have to pay back the portion of the tax refunds.
  • The case is headed for the state court of appeals.

2013 History Day Winners

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  • The first, second and third place winners from the Regional Level of History Day 2013 are as follows:
    • Arianna Ramdass
    • Justin Senzer
    • Diane Li
    • Kerianne DiBattista
    • Tafheem Nayeem
    • Rifath Rashid
    • Sahil Rawal
    • Tanzim Bhuiya
    • Jugal Joshi
    • Abhinav Talwar
    • Linda Mule
    • Nicole Cohanpour
    • Linsday Slavit
    • Joshua Somrah
    • Vikram Krishmamoorthy
    • Marielle Lenowitz
    • Lauren Paik
    • Ashley Skaria
    • Gina Yoo
    • Grace Neumann
    • Jeffrey Kim
    • Kristen Bianco
    • Khusbu Patel
    • Kadambari Suri
    • Madeleine Huang
    • Corrin Chow

Other Board News

  • The Herricks High School boys basketball team and its coaches were given the James Greene Sportsmanship award this year.

The next meeting of the Herricks Board of Education will be on Thursday, April 4 at 7:15 p.m. at the community center.

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