Schools
Port Washington School Election Results Are In
One incumbent school board member was defeated in a bid for re-election.
PORT WASHINGTON, NY — Port Washington residents approved a 2024-25 school budget on Tuesday and elected three trustees to the Board of Education from a wide field of candidates.
The $194.6 million proposed budget was approved with 70.19 percent of the vote. The budget comes with a 3.39 percent hike in the school tax levy. That is over the state's tax cap for the district so the budget needed to be approved by 60 percent of the voters.
Trustees Adam Smith, Adam Block and Nanette Melkonian sought re-election. They were challenged by Sandra Alvarez, Teodora Choolfaian, Michael Bitalvo, Elizabeth Weisburd and Joseph Delerme.
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Board of Education
- Sandra Alvarez- 1,817*
- Michael Bitalvo- 856
- Adam Block- 1,591
- Teodora Choolfaian- 434
- Joseph Delerme-594
- Nanette Melkonian- 1,693**
- Adam Smith- 2,074**
- Beth Weisburd- 1,070
**re-elected to the BOE
*elected to the BOE
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District spending
Budget proposed for 2024-25: $194,578,217
Yes: 2,932
No: 1,245
Proposition 2 asked voters to approve spending $4 million from the school district's pre-established capital reserve fund entitled “Facilities Improvement Program 1 - Port Washington UFSD”
Yes: 3,183
No: 826
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