The TIMES of Huntington • Northport • East Northport
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May 21, 2015
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ALL PROPOSED BUDGETS PASS See your district’s results and school board election coverage on pages A1, A10
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A day of reflection on Memorial Day Also, Memorial Day parades on the North Shore; local actor lands lead in ‘oliver!’ at theatre three
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David Stein and Tammie Topel are joyous after winning a contest for Northport-East Northport school board seats in an election on Tuesday.
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new faces on Harborfields, northport-East northport and Huntington school boards By Rohma aBBaS aND VicToRia ESpiNoza
Voters in the Huntington, Northport-East Northport, Harborfields and Cold Spring Harbor school districts resoundingly approved their districts’ proposed 2015-16 budgets and elected a number of newcomers to local school boards. Both Harborfields and Northport-East Northport school board races had contests this year — in Harborfields, five candidates vied for three seats, and in Northport-East Northport, a pool of seven were com-
peting for three slots. Huntington and Cold Spring Harbor had races in which trustees ran unopposed.
Huntington
Voters in the Huntington school district approved a $120.3 million budget, 1,228 votes to 301. Proposition 2, which allows the district to spend just over $1 million in capital reserve monies to pay for state-approved projects, passed 1,252 votes to 251. Four people ran unopposed for re-election or election: board President Emily Rogan received
1,193 votes, board members Xavier Palacios and Tom DiGiacomo collected 1,139 votes and 1,185 votes, respectively, and newcomer Christine Biernacki garnered 1,189 votes. Rogan, Biernacki and DiGiacomo won three-year terms. As the lowest vote getter, Palacios will serve the remaining two years on a term of former Vice President Adam Spector’s vacated seat. “We will maintain our efforts toward achieving cost savings and efficiencies, while preserving the goal of providing students across the district with a high quality education that pro-
motes an affinity for learning as well as college and career readiness in an increasingly global and technologically-driven society,” Superintendent Jim Polansky said in a statement.
Northport-East Northport
In Northport-East Northport, the $159.6 million budget was approved, 3,281 to 788, in a turnout that school officials there called stronger than usual. Proposition 2, which allows the district to spend $1.2 million in capital reserves, was approved poll rESUltS continued on page a10