Published: May 20, 2008 11:40 pm      

SCHOOL ELECTION: Albion, Medina, Lyndonville and Kendall pass budgets; Holley's shot down

Oak Orchard Elementary School in Medina saw a steady stream of voters throughout the day Tuesday as residents cast their ballots for three Board of Education members and for or against the budget.

Total expenses in the 2008-09 budget — $30,163,792 — are an increase over last year's expenditures by $1.5 million, a 5.53 percent increase. With a significant amount of state aid, though, the tax levy is stable at a zero percent increase.

Voters were posed with two propositions, one being the budget and the other giving permission to the district to “purchase buses, vans and buildings and grounds equipment ... not to exceed the cost of $294,000,” according to the district’s budget brochure.

Resident David Callard was pleased with what the district was able to do financially in the upcoming year’s budget.

“I think generally everything’s positive this year,” he said.

Yvonne Peters, a retired Medina teacher’s associate in the special education department, was preparing for her turn to proctor the elections.

“It’s a good thing the way the economy is going up in Medina,” Peters said about the budget.

With four people running for three seats on the school board, two of whom are incumbents — Carl Tuohey and Susanne Keryk, she also said she wasn’t very familiar with a couple of the candidates. Peters said last week, though, candidate Rosalind Lind stopped by her home while out campaigning.

“They’ve got some really good, qualified candidates,” said Jim Hancock. “Any one of them would do a good job.”

According to Hancock, being a board member is a large investment of time and he was happy to see new faces in the community stepping up to the plate.

Below is a breakdown of each of the five Orleans County school districts and how they fared in this year’s school elections. Board members elected to serve in their district are marked in bold:

Albion

MARGY BROWN: 443, five-year term

KENNETH BIEBER JR.: N/A

ROBERT PINSON: N/A

MARIE SNYDER: 350 votes, five-year term

BUDGET: $32.2 million — 497-166

PROPOSITIONS: Library budget — 420-240; Bus purchase — 505-151

Medina

CARL TUOHEY: 354

SUSANNE KERYK: 416

CHRISTOPHER KELLER: 407

ROSALIND LIND: 587

BUDGET: $30,163,792 — 479-156

PROPOSITIONS: Bus purchase, $294,000 — 450-161

Lyndonville

CHRISTINA FELDMAN: 194

EDWARD URBANIK: 184

WILLIAM C. JURINICH: 182

BUDGET: $12,710,000 — 159-63

PROPOSITIONS: Bus purchase, $92,000 — 178-44, Transpotation vehicle reserve fund — 161-61; Capital improvement reserve fund — 165-57; Yates Community Library budget — 149-73

Holley

NORMAN KNIGHT: 415

ROBIN SILVIS: 414

CHARLES M. PATTON: 438

ERIC SPENCER: 396

BUDGET: $20,132,582 — 348-380

PROPOSITIONS: Community Free Library support, $91,680 — 384-337; Bus purchases, $325,000 —353-368

Kendall

EDWARD GAESSER: 199, five-year term

JOHN COLE: 160

CHARLES “CHUCK” PATT: 94

BUDGET: $16,244,095 — 289-152

PROPOSITIONS: Bus reserve — 245-114