Although budget season lasts for months, this week has been crammed with information leading up to the budgets – biographies of those running, information on registering to vote and reading as much information about what the budgets mean for your district as you could get your hands on.
We have the recap of the budgets and the new trustees right here for Bellmore and Merrick. See what you may have missed below.
Bellmore
- Budget: $31.9 million
- Number of votes for: 766
- Number of votes against: 347
- Trustees: Marion Blane and Brian Desmond, incumbents, were both re-elected to their board seats.
- For more information, click here.
North Bellmore
- Budget: $47.9 million
- Number of votes for: 1,442
- Number of votes against: 831
- Trustees: Grace Cramsie, incumbent, was re-elected. Joe Perrone was ousted by Nina Lanci, who will serve a three-year term. Lanci was a former member of the North Bellmore board, as well as the CHSD board.
- For more information, click here.
Merrick
- Budget: $43.3 million
- Number of votes for: 1,144
- Number of votes against: 517
- Trustees: Dr. Nancy Kaplan and Susan Schwartz, incumbents, were re-elected to their seats. Dr. Pamela Banks will be joining them for a three-year term. Diane Seaman, who sat on both the Merrick and CHSD boards, decided not to run for re-election. Other challengers were Sigal Negrin and Eric Streznec.
- For more information, click here.
North Merrick
- Budget: $27.5 million
- Number of votes for: 787
- Number of votes against: 365
- Trustees: Neil Brown, current vice president of the board, was re-elected. Steve Enella will join the board this year. Both ran unopposed after Alyse Middendorf, current board president, decided not to run for re-election.
- For more information, click here.
Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District
- Budget: $133 million
- Number of votes for: 3,974
- Number of votes against: 2,030
- Trustees: Schwartz, of Merrick, will be returning to the CHSD board of education. Seaman, of Merrick, has left an empty seat on the CHSD board to be filled by another member of the Merrick School Board. Blane, of Bellmore, is the current vice president of the CHSD board and will return to her seat. North Bellmore's Perrone was defeated by Lanci, which will free up his seat on the CHSD board. That seat will be filled by a North Bellmore School Board trustee.
- For more information, click here.
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