GHENT–Voters around Columbia County have supported school budgets and a small number of additional spending propositions. The exception was Germantown, the only one of the six local public school districts that presented a budget that exceeded the state’s nominal 2% cap on annual property tax increases.
The Hudson City School District has not yet reported its results. All the other districts have issued their results.
To adopt its budget, which called for a 5.2% increase in the tax levy, the Germantown budget proposition would have required that at least 60% of voters supported the measure. The results of the machine vote before absentee ballots were counted indicated that only about 43% of voters supported the budget. School officials said turnout was high.
Chatham
BUDGET
Yes 421
No 209
#1 BUS PURCHASE
Yes 406
No 213
BOARD (3)
Michael Clark 480
Jennifer Lindberg 463
David O’Connor 468
Germantown
BUDGET
Yes 391
No 501
BOARD (2)
Nicholas Ertle 138
David Forman 315
Faydra Rekow Geraghty 532*
Ralph DelPozzo 613*
Stephen Savoris 220
Hudson
BUDGET
Yes
No
BOARD
Tiffany Martin Hamilton
Carrie Otty
Ichabod Crane
BUDGET
Yes 1080
No 559
PROPOSITIONS
#2 Purchase 4 buses
Yes 940
No 682
#3 Title of Glynn school
to Town of Kinderhook
and Valatie for $1.
Yes 1,203
No 394
#4 Convey Village Sq.
(Glynn Sq.) to Valatie
for $800.
Yes 1,249
No 336
BOARD (3)
Barbara-anne Johnson-Heimroth 1,056
Bruce Naramore 1,016
Cheryl Francoeur Trefzger 924
Jeffery Ouellette 1,125
New Lebanon
BUDGET
Yes 249
No 84
PROPOSITIONS
#2 Amend capital reserve
fund for $1.5M capital
improvements, paid for
surplus and interest.
Yes 205
No 82
#3 Student member of
board “ex officio.”
Yes 209
No 77
BOARD (2)
Monique Wood 227
Tracy Bingham 249
Taconic Hills
BUDGET
Yes 462
No 166
BOARD (2)
Paul Robertson 259
Anna Skoda 402*
Glenn Schermerhorn 503*