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Updated Results: Malverne, Lynbrook, West Hempstead Pass Budgets

Check back for live results of the 2014 budget vote.

West Hempstead School District residents passed the 2014-15 budget Tuesday night.

The district announced on their website that of 967 total votes, the budget garnered 654 passes compared with 313 "no" votes.

The district proposed a $57,235,856 budget for the 2014-15 school year. The proposal calls for a 2.80 percent budget-to-budget increase from last year and a 1.42 percent tax levy increase.

Pamela Lotito and Vincent Trocchia will return to the West Hempstead Board of Education after running unopposed.

Updated 11:35 p.m.

Malverne School District residents voted in favor of the 2014-15 budget, announced the district.

Of the total 944 votes cast, 600 were in favor of passing the $40,816,759 budget compared to 344 against it.

The budget calls for a 2.46 percent budget-to-budget increase from last year and a 2.06 percent tax levy increase.

This year's budget will apply $2.3 million from the reserve/fund balance to offset taxpayer burden, maintain core programs, expand the one-to-one iPad initiative to include grades 4-5 and 8-9, continued support of the Dare to Dream program, and triple enrollment in the BOCES Doshi STEM program. Read more in the district budget pamphlet here.

Marguerite "Peg" O'Connor was reelected to serve on the Board of Education.

Lynbrook School District residents also passed their proposed 2014-15 budget, the district said.

867 people voted in favor of the $77,229,010 budget compared to 411 who voted against it.

Alicemarie Bresnihan and Ellen Marcus ran unopposed and were reelected to the Board of Education.

Check back here tonight for updates from Malverne, Lynbrook, and West Hempstead School District votes.

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