Nominating petitions available for two board seats up for election

(March 10, 2010)–Two seats on the Voorheesville Board of Education will be up for election on Tuesday, May 18. Nominating petitions are available for the office of Board of Education Trustee to fill the vacancies caused by expiration of the terms of David M. Gibson and Kevin T. Kroencke.  The candidates elected will serve a four-year term beginning July 1, 2010, and terminating June 30, 2014.

Qualifications for membership on a school board:

• Must be able to read and write.

• Must be a qualified voter of the district; that is, a citizen of the United States, at least 18 years of age or older and not adjudged to be an incompetent.

• Must be and have been a resident of the school district for a continuous and uninterrupted period of at least one year.

• May not have been removed from any school district office within the proceeding year.

• May not reside with another member of the same school board as a member of the same family.

• May not be a current employee of the school board.

• May not simultaneously hold another incompatible public office.

Qualified voters who are interesting in running for a seat on the board should pick up a nominating petition from the district office, 432 New Salem Road, Voorheesville. Candidates must collect 25 signatures to appear on the ballot, and return the petition to the district clerk’s office by Monday, April 19, at 4 p.m.

For more information, please contact the district’s business office at 765-3313.