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School Board Candidates Now Have Until June 5 to File

Deadline would have been today in April election, but board moved election to November

The move from an April school board election to a means new deadlines to run as a candidate.

Now, candidates have until June 5 to file a petition to run in November, said the county clerk's office. Today was the deadline under the April system.

Lakewood will still have an April school board election and budget vote, but nearly every other school district in decided to move its school board election to November.

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That also means the Lacey Township School District budget will no longer be before voters and will instead be decided by the school board this spring, unless the school budget grows more than 2 percent. Only if the school district presents a budget more than the 2 percent cap will it be required to put the budget before voters.

The move to a November election was allowed under a , giving districts the choice to keep an April election or move it to coincide with the general election in November.

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Candidates will be listed in a separate section of the November ballot, as school board elections are nonpartisan.

Three seats are up for grabs in the first November election of the seven-member school board.

The Lacey seats for Vice President Eric J. Schubiger and Maureen Tirella expire this year.

The move to a November election was not overwhelmingly denounced by the public since few residents attended a special board meeting to decide the switch. According to a non-scientific Lacey Patch poll, 63 percent of the voters said the board should move elections to November to save money and boost voter turnout while 36 percent said residents should be able to vote on the budget.

The measure was unanimously passed by the school board.


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