GUILDERLAND PLAN DRAWS FEW CRITICS.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: WINIFRED YU Staff writer

GUILDERLAND The Guilderland Board of Education was greeted with relative calm at its public hearing on a proposed budget Tuesday night, with only about 35 people in attendance.

The board has proposed a $45.5 million budget that will raise taxes 2.7 percent in town.

With the exception of a handful of critics who say the Guilderland Central School District should have imposed no tax increase, the community has been relatively silent on this year's budget. In the last two years, crowds jammed the public hearing and lined up to protest double-digit increases. And in both years, initial budgets were rejected. …