School and Town Election position filing ended today, February 2, 2012, at the close of the Town Hall and School Offices at 5 PM. Open positions this term included Town Council and School Board members, the budget committee, Town Moderator, and Trustees of the Leach Library.
At the close of the filing period today, the following candidates and positions were in the running:
Town Council – Three Year Term – One Position
- Sean O’Keefe
- Jim Butler
Budget Committee – Three Year Term – Two Positions
- Martin Srugis
- NONE
Town Moderator – Two Year Term – One Position
- Mackenzie Douglas
- Cindi Rice Conley
Town Treasurer – One Year Term – One Position
- Kathy Wagner
- Adriana Komst
Supervisors of the Checklist – Six Year Term – One Position
- Gerry VanGrevenhof
Trustees of the Leach Library – Three Year Term – Two Positions
- Betsy McKinney
- Carol Introne
Trustees of the Leach Library – Two Year Term – One Position
- NONE
Trustees of Trust Funds – Three Year Term – One Position
- Bob Saur
Don’t miss the Town and School deliberative sessions next week! The Town Budgetary Meeting will be held on Monday, February 6, 2012 at 7 PM at the High School Cafeteria. The School District Meeting will be held on Friday, February 10, 2012 at 7 PM at the High School Cafeteria!
All warrant articles will be acted upon at the time of each meeting, respectively, and placed on the ballot for the March elections. Voting will be held on March 13, 2012 to determine the winning candidates for each position.
School Board – Three Year Term – Two Positions
- Leitha Reilly
- Steve Young
- Melanie Tamburello
- Michael “Mike” Boyle
- Joseph “Joe” Caputo
- Glenn Douglas
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The Town Council and School Board recorded a couple of videos that go over the rules/process of the upcoming deliberative sessions
Town Deliberative here
School Deliberative here
The worst thing for our schools/kids would be to elect the Baldasaro disciples: Douglas and Tamburello to the School Board. These two would simply erode the educational excellence here in Londonderry as a first step, and step two would be to watch our home values further erode as a result.
Save our schools and save our home investments. Do not vote for these 2.
Janie, can you be more specific? In order to erode “educational excellence” they would have to propose a specific agenda to do that. Can you cite what it is they are proposing that would cause this?
I would also ask what you base your current opinion of “educational excellence” on?? What do you see as Londonderry schools as offering “educational excellence”? Are you referring to the standardized assessments??
Those assessments are based on poor academic standards. FYI
Anyone who knows these candidates (or any of the Baldasaro diciples for that matter) knows that these people are not friends of education or our kids’ best interests. They are slash and burn reactionaries of the farthest point on the right wing spectrum. They will use every possible technique there is to starve the schools into mediocre output. WIll it take another $50K of home value loss before you use that brain you claim to own? Who will want to live in a town with a declining school system? People have finally come to realize how bad Baldasaro has been for this town. His minions are just as bad. Let’s stop the madness before it does permanent damage.
Janie, you make the assumption that money = quality education. I am afraid that assumption simply doesn’t hold water when you look at the current state of education.
We’ve spent MORE money on education in this country and the test scores remain stagnant.
Canada spends less per pupil ant their students outperform the U.S. students.
Cutting spending or increasing spending means NOTHING to me as a mom and a voter. What is it exactly they will do to harm the quality of education in the classroom?
These kids lack the basics. If it takes more money to drill the basics into students, then we are doing a lousy job right now.
The fact is, schools do not focus on teaching the basic facts. They touch on them, but the kids never really master.
I’d like to hear serious accusations that anyone running does not have the best interest of the students at heart. Mud slinging doesn’t cut it for me. I was hoping you had SOME substance to your charges.