East Ramapo school officials will ask voters to decide on a $209.5 million budget with a 2.8 percent tax increase next month following a narrow defeat of slightly higher spending proposal earlier this week. Until the second election on June 18, officials said they’ll use the next three and a half weeks to ramp up efforts to get out the vote, especially in the public school community, which sends about 9,000 students to East Ramapo. A $209.9 million budget with a 3.13 percent tax increase failed by 505 votes Tuesday.

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