At its last meeting of the summer, the Village of Massapequa Park board of trustees approved two new budget items.

The BOT set the final expenditures and revenues for the 2005-2006 budget as $5,494,128 in total expenditures and $5,788,460 in total revenues, thus giving the village a surplus of nearly $300,000.

The BOT also approved a whole range of budget transfers. Both the increases and decreases in such transfers totaled $224,100 and so, the final budget numbers were not affected.

The major increases came in the Streets budget, with $45,000 for Equipment and $19,000 for Contractual aspects.

In addition, the village will spend $17,000 on Records Retention, $12,000 on Buildings (Contractual), $11,000 on Community Beautification, $9,800 on Buildings (Personal Services), $9,800 on Law (Contractual), $8,300 on Parks (Personal Services), and $7,300 on Street Cleaning (Personal Services).

To offset such budget increases, the BOT approved decreases in Unallocated Insurance ($75,000), the State Retirement System ($62,100), Central Garage ($30,000), Drainage ($16,000), Assessment ($12,000), Social Security ($11,000), and Street Cleaning ($8,000).