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Vote No on Prop 3.

It is not a vote against the schools. It is not a vote against the kids. It is not a vote against the budget. It is a vote against the one line on the ballot the same Board that begged you for your vote has signed off on without doing the job they swore they would do.

May 2, 2026

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The Laundering Line. Where the Surplus Goes.

Every Jericho UFSD audit reports two different totals for what the District spent. The difference between them is a single line — Operating Transfers Out — that gets revised dramatically upward every year after the May vote. Across nine post-2016 fiscal years, voters originally approved approximately $22 million in transfers at the May ballot. The actual flows totaled $95 million. The extra $73 million was added mid-year, drawn from prior-year operating surplus parked in capital reserves, and spent on buildings paid for in cash. The State Comptroller documented this laundering cycle in 2016. It has continued for nine years.

Apr 30, 2026

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Show Your Math: A Guide to the Jericho Budget Workbook

Every figure in every Jericho Voice piece traces to one of fifteen public documents — five appropriation budget master drafts, nine audited financial statements, and the December 2016 State Comptroller report. We compiled them into one workbook and published it open. Here is what is in each tab — and how to verify any number we have ever cited against the source audit page in five minutes.

Apr 30, 2026

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The Six Line Items the State Named. Padded for Nine More Years.

In December 2016, the State Comptroller named six budget line items Jericho UFSD was overestimating: teacher salaries, Students With Disabilities, insurance, contract transportation, plant maintenance, State retirement. Across the nine audits since, every one of those categories came in under Final Budget every single year — $91.9 million cumulative, 86.6 percent of the District's entire post-audit operating gap. When the underspend started to shrink, the surplus did not. The fulcrum just moved to the revenue side

Apr 30, 2026

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They Were Told. They Did It Bigger.

In December 2016, the State Comptroller cited Jericho for circumventing the 4% statutory fund balance limit. The District agreed in writing. The very next year, manufactured surplus hit $17.9 million — the highest in 22 years. The per-pupil number on the District's slide doesn't account for any of it.

Apr 25, 2026

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