In the race for School Board trustee, the winners were David Warner (incumbent) with 502 votes and Julie Allongue with 466 votes. The losing challenger was Anthony Lopez Sr. with 155 votes as an unsuccessful write-in candidate. As an aside, write-in candidates rarely win unless they have mounted and executed an exhaustive outreach to the community to get the support needed. Write-in candidates also circumvent the archaic system of requiring ballot signatures, by-passing that initial part of the election process.
The school budget also passed with a total of 500 in favor to 156 against.
Regardless, what's disappointing is that once again so few residents came out to vote for the school elections an budget, which makes up a sizeable portion of their tax bill. This is extremely disappointing because you'll recall two years ago when the former Superintendent and the specific Board members had lied about the campus consolidation costs to the taxpayers that the public came out in force and defeated the consolidation extravaganza by roughly a three-to-one defeat. The Board also elected not to extend the former Superintendent's contract and the vociferous Board member lost handily in the subsequent school Board elections. Immediately afterwards, the school budget was passed, thus proving the community continued to support the children's education and the district.
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