eizzo@adirondackdailyenterprise.com LAKE PLACID The Lake Placid Central School District Board of Education hosted a virtual hearing on the district’s proposed 2021-22 budget on Tuesday. Unlike past hearings, at which parents and community members could voice their opinions in person, this year because of pandemic-related capacity limits people were directed to email comments and questions rather than join the board’s teleconference call. No comments on the budget were emailed ahead of the hearing, nor after the hearing as of Thursday morning, according to district Clerk Karen Angelopoulos. Superintendent Roger Catania and school board President Richard Preston presented details of the proposed 2021-22 budget during the hearing on Tuesday.
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Saranac Lake resident Kathy Merritt places her vote in the May 2019 school election at Saranac Lake High School.
(Enterprise photo â Kevin Shea) If you want to run for your local public school board, the deadline to file your candidacy is Monday afternoon. That date is the same for every school district in the state. The school election day for board members, budgets and special propositions is also the same statewide Tuesday, May 18. All school terms are for three years, except for one unexpired term in Lake Placid. Each candidate needs to file a petition with at least 25 qualified signatures. (The requirement is for either 25 or 2% of the number of voters in the district’s last election, but for that 2% to be more than 25, a district would have to have had more than 1,250 voters, and the Adirondack Park’s districts are too small for that.)