This week, there will be two Meet the Candidates Night in anticipation of the Roslyn School District elections to be held Tuesday, May 16.

The first event will take place on Monday, May 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the Roslyn High School cafeteria. This forum is sponsored by The League of Women Voters of Port Washington/Manhasset.

Two days later, on Wednesday, May 10, the United Civic Associations of East Hills and Roslyn Heights will host their own Candidates Night. The event will take place at the Bryant Library and starts at 7:30 p.m.

According to a spokeswoman for United Civic Associations, the Bryant Library forum will provide a chance for the public to meet the candidates in an environment and format that "will be conducive to an exchange of varied opinions."

"Civic leaders attending board of education meetings for the past year have observed that attendance at the meetings does not reflect all of the opinions of residents in the community," a flier for the May 10 event stated. "Residents will have an opportunity to ask questions, not only about educational issues, but also about the trustees' fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayers."

There are four candidates vying for three BOE seats: Dani Klein, Jeff Borowick, Ronald Smith, and David Seinfeld.

According to school officials, Kim Hunter has dropped out of the race. However, there is still time for other candidates to enter the race. School officials said that the deadline for delivering petitions is Tuesday, May 9 at 5 p.m. Petitions must be delivered to the Roslyn School District's Administrative Building. The BOE seats are for a three-year term.

Meanwhile, the current BOE, at its last meeting, has approved, in addition to the budget vote, two propositions to be voted on at the May 16 election.

Proposition #1 will be a vote on the $86,809,546 2006-07 school year budget, one that has been approved for a vote by the BOE.

Proposition #2 is a vote on the 2006-07 Bryant Library budget. That budget, as approved by the Library Board of Trustees stands at $4,450,964, with $4,036,214 to be raised by a levy of a tax upon the taxable real property in the school district.

Proposition #3 concerns the $4,112,000 that the school district will receive from settlements in the embezzlement scandal.

School district residents will vote on whether or not to authorize the BOE to transfer such monies to a variety of capital improvement projects, including Home Economics Building in-house renovations, the installation of a high school chemistry laboratory and language laboratory, roof replacement at district schools, district-wide plumbing, masonry, security system upgrades, technology upgrades, playground safety, fire safety and exhaust ventilation system upgrades, district-wide door replacement, field renovations, and blacktop and asphalt repair. Such renovations, the proposition further states, would not result in a tax increase for the 2006-07 budget.

Finally, Proposition #4 will address transportation issues, all in an effort to reduce budget costs.