On Tuesday, May 15, voters in Glen Cove elected Janet Bates-Wilkins and Dr. Kurt Schmeller to the board of education while approving the school district's $48 million budget. The budget includes a .97 percent tax increase. North Shore School District voters elected Dr. Darlene Galati, George Pombar and incumbent Tom Murphy to the board of education while rejecting the proposed $52.7 million school budget which included a consolidated 7.455 percent tax increase.

The approved Glen Cove School District budget recorded a vote of 1,675 in favor and 1,145 against. Glen Cove voters chose from a field of five candidates for two seats on the board of education. The official tally in that race is as follows: Janet Bates-Wilkins-1,602; Dr. Kurt Schmeller-1,456; Rick Smith-1,386; Natheley McElrath-1,252 and Robert Germino-317. There were two write-ins. Voters also agreed with Proposition Two, (1,737 for, 843 against) that will allow continuous personal registration for school board/budget elections and they agreed with Proposition Three, (1,705 for, 968 against), which reduces the length of a school board member's term to three years from five years.

The official tally recorded for the vote on the North Shore School District budget is: 1,297 against; 1,101 in favor. The district's voters chose from a field of five candidates to fill three seats on the board of education. The tally for school board trustee is: incumbent Tom Murphy 1,499; George Pombar, 1,366; Dr. Darlene Galati-1,254; incumbent Nancy Benchimol 1,126 and incumbent Ernest DiVincenzo 989.

The North Shore Board of Education will be considering their options during a meeting next week, the date of which will be announced shortly. The board must decide if it will immediately declare a contingency budget; if the same budget will be offered to voters again or whether to offer voters a revised spending plan. Four years ago when the district's budget failed, the board seated at that time offered voters a revised budget which passed.