The Herkimer-Fulton-Hamilton-Otsego BOCES component school boards voted on Wednesday, April 17, to approve the $4,374,908 Herkimer BOCES administrative budget for the 2024-25 school year.
Component district school boards took a vote on whether to approve the BOCES administrative budget and then cast an overall vote as a board. The budget passed unanimously among the 10 Herkimer BOCES component school boards – from Central Valley, Dolgeville, Frankfort-Schuyler, Herkimer, Little Falls, Mount Markham, Owen D. Young, Poland, Richfield Springs and West Canada Valley.
BOCES component district school boards only vote on the administrative component of the BOCES budget.
The component school boards also unanimously voted to re-elect three incumbent Herkimer BOCES Board of Education members. The following board members were re-elected to three-year terms from July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2027: Thomas Shypski , representing Richfield Springs; William Miller, representing Little Falls; and Kathleen Sarafin, representing Frankfort-Schuyler.