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Hodge, Dickman to join Suffern board; Frasier re-elected
Voters in East Ramapo and Suffern approved 2021-22 budget plans by comfortable margins Tuesday.
Almost 63% of voters backed East Ramapo s $272.45 million budget plan that carried a 0% property tax levy increase but added tens of millions of dollars thanks to a windfall in state and federal funding.
In Suffern, more than 73% of voters approved the budget, while voters chose two challengers and one incumbent to fill three trustee seats.
The two districts held elections a week earlier than the statewide May 18 date to avoid conflicting with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.
Results are unofficial.
East Ramapo held a trustee vote in February, the result of a federal civil rights case brought by the local NAACP. The suit asserted the district s standard voting method disenfranchised Black and brown families who send about 9,000 children to the public schools and favored the white Orthodox Jewish community that sends about 30,000 children to private yeshivas.
A federal judge agreed, and a new ward voting system was installed that allowed voters to choose local representatives to the nine-member board, rather than the using standard at large voting method.
Both districts are on the cusp of new leadership.
East Ramapo has been led this year by interim Superintendent Raymond Giamartino, appointed after Deborah Wortham left in June after five years. The board on April 13 announced the appointment of Clarence Ellis, a New York City schools administrator, to the top post. Ellis begins in July.
Brandon Short, Steven Wagman, and Alvin de Levie have officially been elected as alumni trustees. They’ll begin new three-year terms on Penn State’s Board of Trustees starting July 1.
The three respectively received 14,299, 9,730, and 9,688 votes from their fellow alumni en route to their elections. They topped fellow candidates Jim Bognet, Bridget Lasda, and incumbent Laurie Stanell.
Short
won re-election after first joining the Board of Trustees in July 2018. You probably know him as a former All-American Penn State linebacker who went on to play in the NFL, too. Off the gridiron, he’s amassed nearly 10 years of experience in real estate investment banking and investment management. Short previously worked for Goldman Sachs, among other firms.
Penn State s Board of Trustees elected or appointed six incumbent trustees and five new members during its meeting Friday.
Alvin de Levie and Steven Wagman were elected by university alumni as alumni trustees, and incumbent Brandon Short was reelected.
In the alumni election, the distribution of votes per candidate was as follows:
Steven B. Wagman â 9,730
Alvin F. de Levie â 9,688
Bridget M. Lasda â 8,171
Jim Bognet â 7,016
Laurie A. Stanell â 9,634
Brandon Short â 14,299
Additionally, Donald Cairns was elected and incumbent Chris Hoffman was reelected by the delegates of agricultural societies, Robert Fenza and Mary Lee Schneider were reelected as trustees representing business and industry, Julie Anna Potts was reelected as an at-large trustee and Nicholas Rowland was elected as the boardâs academic trustee.