Cayuga County-area 2022 school budget vote and board of education election results | Education

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Residents in Cayuga County-area school districts went to the polls Tuesday to vote on budget proposals and elect school board members. 

(Winners in bold and italicized; some school board races may be undecided)

Auburn Enlarged City School District

Budget ($90.2 million, 7.7% increase and 2.5% tax levy increase)

Proposition: Allowing a student representative to serve on the school board

School board elections (three three-year seats, one seat for one year)

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Francis “C.J.” Calarco – 1,378

Cato-Meridian Central School District

Budget ($23.1 million, 3% increase, 2.5% tax levy increase)

Proposition 1 (purchase of two 65-passenger school buses)

Proposition 2 (proposal to buy 10 acres of land, construction of sewer system)

Proposition 3 (establish an additional $5 million capital reserve fund for future projects)

School board elections (three three-year seats)

Jordan-Elbridge Central School District

Budget ($34.9 million, 3.5% increase and 2.8% tax levy increase)

Proposition 1 (establish a bus reserve fund of up to $900,000 for future bus purchases)

Proposition 2 (Authorizing Elbridge Free Library to spend additional $10,000 in 2022-23)

Proposition 3 (Authorizing Jordan Bramley Library to spend additional $10,000 in 2022-23)

School board elections (three three-year seats)

Tabitha DelCostello – 274

Moravia Central School District

Budget ($26.6 million, 5.9% increase and 2.5% tax levy increase)

Proposition (purchase three 66-passenger school buses at a cost not to exceed $362,100)

School board elections (three three-year seats)

Port Byron Central School District

Budget ($23.3 million, 2.9% increase and 1.2% tax levy increase)

Proposition 1 (Purchase and finance two school buses at a cost not to exceed $300,000)

Proposition 2 (Port Byron Library’s annual tax of $3,000 plus appropriation of $98,147 for a total of $101,147)

School board elections (two three-year seats)

Christopher Recckio – 264

Skaneateles Central School District

Budget ($37.4 million, 4.2% increase and 2.6% tax levy increase)

Proposition 1 (authorizing purchase of student transport vehicles at a cost not to exceed $501,000)

Proposition 2 (increasing tax levy for Skaneateles Library Association by $14,000 to $364,000 annually)

School board elections (two three-year seats, one two-year seat, one one-year seat)

Danielle Fleckenstein – 1,072

Southern Cayuga Central School District

Budget ($18.7 million, 1.9% increase and 0.5% tax levy increase)

Proposition 1 (replace three buses)

Propositions ($2,850 increase for Aurora Free Library) and ($1,825 increase for Hazard Library Association)

School board elections (three three-year seats)

Union Springs Central School District

Budget ($20.1 million, 4.1% increase and 1.3% tax levy increase)

Proposition 1 (capital improvement project of up to $850,000, with $355,982 used from 2017 capital reserve)

Proposition 2 (establish 10-year capital reserve not to exceed $2.5 million)

Proposition 3 (Increase Springport Free Library’s budget by $3,500 to $88,500)

School board elections (three three-year seats)

Jackie Farrelly-Dougherty – 236

Weedsport Central School District

Budget ($21.2 million, 4.2% increase and 1.8% tax levy increase)

Proposition 1 (approve new school bus purchase at a cost not to exceed $140,000)

Proposition 2 (Authorizing Weedsport Public Library to spend an additional $87,186 in 2022-23)

School board elections (one five-year seat)