N.Y. Suffolk County Tax Act § 8: Certification and levy of school tax

§ 8. Certification and levy of school tax. The board of education or

the trustees of each school district shall thereupon and on or before

the first day of October in each year, upon the total assessed valuation

of the taxable property within their school district as certified by the

board of assessors in the current year as hereinbefore provided,

compute, ascertain and adopt the tax rate per hundred dollars of

assessed valuation necessary to raise the amount required for said

district for the amount of the budget and for all other necessary

amounts to be raised by taxation as provided by law, and shall certify

said rate and the total amounts to be raised thereby to the supervisor

of the town.