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Valley Stream school budgets pass

Incumbents keep their seats in Districts 13 and 30; Trogel ousted by Wheeler in District 24

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Ten school board candidates ran for open seats this election. Three seats in District 24 and one in District 30 were contested. Two candidates in District 13 and one in District 30 ran uncontested.

District 13:
$48M budget passed with 67.6 percent of the vote. The budget comes with a tax levy increase of 1.45 percent. Toni Pomerantz was re-elected to the Board of Education, and Milagros Vicente was elected. Pomerantz received 795 votes, and Vicente received 519. 

District 24:
$28M budget passed with 75.8 percent of the vote. The budget comes with a tax levy increase of .33 percent. John Maier and Anthony Iadevaio were re-elected to the school board, and Kim Wheeler was elected. Maier received 451 votes, Iadevaio received 360 votes and Wheeler received 399 votes. Lawrence Trogel, a trustee in the school district for 15 years, was ousted by Wheeler. He received 321 votes. Tom Chen, who withdrew from the race after the ballots were printed late on May 13 due to unforseen career-related committments, received 42 votes. Candidate Alexandra Browne-Martin received 155 votes.

District 30: $34M budget passed with 74.8 percent of the vote. The budget comes with a tax levy decrease of 11.94 percent. Kenneth Cummings was re-elected to the school board, and Ingrid Wyllie Dacon was elected. Cummings received 231 votes, and his opponent, Hendrick Colbert, received 131 votes. Wyllie Dacon, who ran uncontested, received 313 votes.

Central High School District: $111M budget passed with 53 percent of the vote. The budget comes with a tax levy decrease of 4.42 percent.

Propositions 2 and 3 passed at VSCHSD, which approve the spending of $2,050,000 from the reserve fund for several capital projects as well as the creation of a new capital reserves fund.