NOTICE OF ANNUAL ELECTION AND BUDGET VOTE
MINEOLA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that in lieu of an Annual Meeting of all election districts in one place, the vote by the qualified voters of the Mineola Union Free School District of the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, will be held on, May 16, 2017 between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. in the school designated in each election district hereinafter described, for the purpose of voting upon appropriation of necessary funds to meet the necessary expenditures of said school district for the fiscal year 2017-2018 and to authorize the levy of the necessary taxes thereof, and further for the purpose of voting upon a proposition to withdraw funds from the Capital Reserve to fund renovation and construction of classroom space at Meadow Drive School and construction of an auxiliary gymnasium at Mineola High School, and additionally for the purpose of electing two (2) members of the Board of Education: for a three (3) year term commencing on July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2020, to succeed Margaret Ballantyne and Nicole Matzer, whose terms expire June 30, 2017.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that voting at said election shall be by use of optical scanning voting machines.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the business to be conducted at such annual meeting and election shall consist of voting on the following propositions, and any other propositions authorized to be voted upon by law and the rules of the Board of Education:
PROPOSITION #1
Shall the following resolution be adopted:
RESOLVED, that the budget for the Mineola Union Free School District (the ‘District’), for the fiscal year of the District commencing July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2018, as presented by the Board of Education, is hereby approved and adopted and the required funds therefor are hereby appropriated and the necessary real property taxes required shall be raised by a tax on the taxable property in the District to be levied and collected as required by law.
PROPOSITION #2
Authorization to Expend Funds from Capital Reserve
Shall the following resolution be adopted:
RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Mineola Union Free School District is authorized to withdraw 4.2 million dollars ($4,200,000.00) from the Mineola UFSD Capital Reserve Fund established by the District in 2010 to pay for the cost of capital projects at the Meadow Drive School, including construction and renovation of classroom spaces, and at the Mineola High School, including construction of an auxiliary gymnasium, together with all ancillary and related work and fees, including architects’ fees in connection therewith.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the condensed form of the budget proposition and a copy of a detailed statement in writing of the amount of money which will be required for the ensuing year for school purposes, specifying the several purposes and the amount for each, will be available at the said Annual Election and, upon request, to any resident in the district at each school house in the district in which school is maintained, during the hours of from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on each day other than a Saturday, Sunday or holiday during the fourteen (14) days immediately preceding the election.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that pursuant to Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law, the District is required to attach to its proposed budget an exemption report. Said exemption report, which will also become part of the final budget, will show how much of the total assessed value on the final assessment roll used in the budgetary process is exempt from taxation, list every type of exemption granted by statutory authority, and show the cumulative impact of each type of exemption, the cumulative amount expected to be received as payments in lieu of taxes and the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted. The report will also be posted on the school district’s website www.mineola.k12.ny.us
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing on the tentative budget of the Mineola Union Free School District, for the school year 2017-2018, will be held on Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 7:00 p.m., at the Willis Avenue School, located at 121 Jackson Avenue, Mineola, NY.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education shall be nominated by petition directed to the District Clerk. Each such petition shall be signed by at least 25 qualified voters of the district, shall state the name and residence of the candidate and the name and residence of each signer, and must be filed between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. in the Office of the District Clerk, not later than the thirtieth day preceding the election, at which the candidates so nominated are to be elected (April 17, 2017). Nominating petitions may be obtained in the Office of the District Clerk, located at 121 Jackson Avenue, Mineola, NY. The candidate(s) receiving the greatest number of votes shall be considered elected to office. Where terms are of different length, the candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be appointed to the longest term of office. However, a nomination may be rejected by the Board of Education if the candidate is ineligible for the office or declares his unwillingness to serve.
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) days before the election, if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or by the day before the election, if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter. No absentee voter’s ballot shall be canvassed, unless it shall have been received in the Office of the District Clerk not later than 5:00 p.m. on the day of the election. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots shall have been issued will be available in the Office of the District Clerk during regular business hours until the day of the election.
REGISTRATION
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Board of Registration of said school district will meet at the Willis Avenue School, located at 121 Jackson Avenue, Mineola, NY 11501, on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., for the purpose of preparing a register of the qualified voters, at which time any person shall be entitled to have his/her name placed upon such register, providing that at such meeting of the Board of Registration he/she is known or proven to the satisfaction of the Board of Registration, to be then or thereafter entitled to vote. Registration is also permitted daily up to and including Thursday, May 11, 2017 in the Office of District Clerk during the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
The Board of Registration shall also meet at the respective polling places on the date and during the hours of the aforesaid election for the purpose of preparing a register for meetings and elections held subsequent thereto.
The Register will be filed in the Office of the District Clerk, where it shall be open for inspection by any qualified voter between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on each of the five days prior to the day of the election, except Sunday, except the hours shall be between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon on Saturday; and also at each polling place during the hours of said election. Any person who shall have previously registered for any school district meeting or election and who shall have voted at any school meeting or election at any time within the four calendar years (2013-2016) prior to the preparation of the register, and any person currently registered for general elections under the provisions of Article 5 of the Election Law shall be entitled to vote at said election without further registration.
ELECTION DISTRICTS
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that pursuant to Section 2017 of the Education Law, the Board of Education has divided the school district into two (2) election districts. The boundaries of the two election districts are described, and the polling place in each designated, as follows:
Election District #1
Polling Place: Jackson Avenue Elementary School All those portions of the School District which are located within the US Postal Service
Zip Codes 11501 and 11040.
Election District #2
Polling Place: Meadow Drive Elementary School
All those portions of the School District which are located within the US Postal Service
Zip Codes 11507, 11577 and 11596.
If there are any questions concerning the election districts, a listing, by US Postal Service Zip Code, of streets, all or portions of which are located within the school district, is available in the Office of the District Clerk located at 121 Jackson Ave., Mineola, NY. Each voter must vote in his/her assigned election district.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Board of Education shall convene a special meeting following the closing of the polls and after the filing with the District Clerk of written reports of the results of the election, for the purpose of examining and tabulating said reports and declaring the results of the election; and that the Board hereby designates the Superintendent and District Clerk to be a set of poll clerks to cast and canvass ballots pursuant to Education Law Section 2019-a, at 3:00 p.m. on May 17, 2017 in the Superintendent’s office.
By Order of the Board of Education of
the Mineola Union Free School District, Nassau County, New York
By: _______________________
Linda Spagnola
District Clerk
Mineola UFSD.
Nassau County, New York
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