BUDGET AND BOARD ELECTION 2025
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Timeline
April 21 – Deadline to file to run for Board of Education
May 13 – Budget hearing – 6 p.m. in Room 106 at Mountain View Campus in Elizabethtown
May 20 – Budget vote – 12 to 8 p.m. at Lake View Campus in Westport
School board
Three full-term seats on the Board of Education are up for election, and a fourth one-year vacancy is open.
The seats are currently held by Tom Broderick, Heather Reynolds, Sue Russell and Evan George.
Voting information
Official ballot wording
PROPOSITION 1 – THE BUDGET
To adopt the annual budget of the Boquet Valley Central School District for the fiscal year 2025-2026 and to authorize the requisite portion thereof to be raised by taxation on the taxable property of the District.
PROPOSITION 2 – BOARD MEMBER VOTE
To elect three (3) members to the Board of Education for three (3) year terms commencing July 1, 2025 and expiring on June 30, 2028 to succeed Tom Broderick, Heather Reynolds and Sue Russell whose terms expire on June 30, 2025, and one (1) member to the Board of Education to fill an unexpired term commencing May 20, 2025 and expiring on June 30, 2026.
PROPOSITION 3 – School Bus Purchases
Shall the Board of Education appropriate and expend in the 2025-2026 fiscal year three hundred fifty-seven thousand dollars ($357,000) from the existing Transportation and Maintenance Equipment Capital Reserve Fund for the purpose of purchasing two (2) sixty-five (65) passenger school buses at a maximum cost of three hundred fifty-seven thousand dollars ($357,000) to pay for the buses in full?
PROPOSITION 4 – Transportation and Maintenance Equipment Purchases
Shall the Board of Education appropriate and expend in the 2025-2026 fiscal year one hundred fifty-one thousand dollars ($151,000) from the existing Transportation and Maintenance Equipment Capital Reserve Fund for the purpose of purchasing one (1) seven (7) passenger van, one (1) plow truck and (1) tractor at a maximum cost of one hundred fifty-one thousand dollars ($151,000) to pay for the van, truck and tractor in full?