NEW SCOTLAND — State aid — $55,000 more than the governor had proposed — has allowed the Voorheesville schools to add two part-time posts to its original budget plan.

“We did OK,” said Superintendent Brian Hunt of the increased aid.

The Voorheesville School Board on Wednesday morning adopted a $24 million budget proposal. The board had delayed adoption earlier because the state budget was not finalized. The state’s 2018 budget agreement was announced on April 7, nearly a week after deadline, with a $700 million increase in Foundation Aid to schools.

Andrew Cuomo’s proposal had allocated $6.2 million in state aid for Voorheesville, covering about a quarter of the spending plan.

The increased aid will be used to hire a four-tenths posts for an English teacher and a social studies teacher — each for $20,000.

“It will help with class size at the high school,” said Hunt of both posts.

In addition to making the classes smaller, the part-time social studies teacher will allow a middle school social studies teacher to teach full-time in the middle school, he said. Currently, the eighth-grade social studies teacher instructs a high school class.

The budget remains under the state-set levy cap.

The public will have its say on May 16. Besides deciding on a budget, voters will also decide on a bus proposition and on setting aside money for a future capital project.

The capital reserve proposition would authorize the creation of a new reserve of up to $2 million, preparing for building upgrades. Any additional fund balance at the end of June 2017 over the 4-percent-of-the-budget limit allowed by the state would be placed in the reserve.

The bus proposition would allow the district to buy two 60-passenger buses, not to exceed a total cost of $230,00. Hunt said earlier this is part of a bus-replacement program that prevents large maintenance costs from deteriorating buses.

Further, voters will elect two school board members. C. James Coffin, the board’s longest-serving member, has said he will seek another term. Cheryl Dozier, the board’s president, has announced that, after nine years on the board, she will not run again.

Petitions for candidates are available at the school district office. They must be returned by April 17 with at least 25 signatures of district residents.