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Pocantico Hills School Budget, Bus Proposal Pass

Dave Wilens elected to school board in uncontested race.

Posted by Sarah Studley (Editor), May 16, 2012 at 01:48 pm

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Results

Budget* (293 total votes, 64.8 percent passing rate)

Yes — 190
No — 103

*The district received the supermajority it needs to override the New York State tax cap.

Buses (273 total votes, 65.2 percent passing rate)

Yes — 178
No — 95

School Board

Dave Wilens — 171

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It would be funny were it not so sad. I recall seeing and hearing quite a lot of mud being slung…Read More recently, in an unseemly manner, but by whom I wonder?

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McKey Rivers May 21, 2013 at 12:51 pm

Mike, please try to keep it together later and don't be acting out again. The last thing the…Read More community needs is another schools related criminal harassment case.

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WRONG!

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McKey Rivers May 21, 2013 at 12:56 pm

OMG!!! Is someone referring to Stacy Agona's experience on the School Board as a basis in deciding…Read More how to vote today? Oh wait, that's her husband. One of my favorite Stacy moments on the school board was when, after having been a trustee for a year, a reference was made during a public meeting to the "reserve fund" and she blurted out, "What's that?"

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Jay Borrel May 21, 2013 at 12:42 pm

There is nothing respectful about Mr. Valenti. While telling us that everyone else uses ugly and…Read More negative campaigning, he forces his message down our throats with his constant badgering and pushing. And, while I do disagree with Mr. Agona at least he is a voice less heard, however a home buyer will definitely think twice when seeing that our schools are not ranked at the top, but our spending is. A home buyer would definitely think twice when seeing that our board went against the levy and asked for more. A home buyer will think twice when seeing that our board underhandedly appointed a superintendent with out any notice to the community of a vacancy. These are trustees, but how can we trust them. With regards to understanding the budget or not, a home buyer only sees the surface and there will be NO TRUST in this community if we do the wrong thing.

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Rod Agona May 21, 2013 at 12:20 pm

Empty Nesters and everyone else: I respectfully disagree with Mr. Borrel on his post. There are…Read More many reasons behind why the budget proposal by the BOE and the administrators exceeds the tax cap guideline. I ask that you check my wife’s posting in the Patch for more insight but I will not repeat here. From personal experience, my perspective is that young parents looking to buy a home will research many things including the community support for the schools. It is fairly common to look into school board budget voting as an impartial indicator of the community's support. Imagine you are deciding between towns X and Y and then you hear that town X voted down the budget. You won’t research any further if this is important to you. You will move on to another place where there is more support. Please consider this into your decision when voting today. A vote for the budget approval will do a great service to the protection of our real estate values, not to mention preserve educational excellence in the eyes of the experts we are currently paying to make those recommendations. I believe most Briarcliff residents will agree with me as evidenced by the fact that there has not been a budget rejection by the public in decades. I would also like to personally congratulate the current Briarcliff BOE trustees for being the only school district in Westchester County to propose a lower budget than they did the prior year. Vote YES to the proposed Briarcliff budget. Vote JON SATRAN and SAL MAGLIETTA for BOE trustees.

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Mike Valenti May 21, 2013 at 03:36 pm

It is Election Day in Briarcliff. There are TWO school board seats up for grabs and a budget to be…Read More voted on. Please join me in voting for JON SATRAN and SAL MAGLIETTA to continue their terms as school board trustees. Please also join me in voting YES on the proposed school budget. Your vote for JON and SAL is a vote FOR continued TRANSPARENCY, RESPECT, COMMUNITY VOICE, COLLABORATION, PARTNERSHIP, CIVILITY, FISCAL PRUDENCE and MUCH MORE. Moreover, your vote for JON and SAL is a vote AGAINST the type of UGLY, NEGATIVE, MUDSLINGING campaigning you are witnessing (especially in these final, desperate hours) from the Linder/Wasserman camp. If we are ever to see this type of campaigning cease we must SPEAK LOUD AND CLEAR and SEND A MESSAGE that it does NOT appeal to us here in Briarcliff and we will NOT support the candidates forwarded or supported by those who conduct themselves in this unseemly manner. Please VOTE YES for JON and SAL. Please VOTE NO for SLEAZY SMALL-TOWN POLITICS. Respectfully, Mike Valenti

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Wouldn't it be great if Mike Valenti moved out of Briarcliff?

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As I write this I know that it is a mistake but I can't let it go. Mr. Rivers and Mr. Borrel please…Read More unmask yourselves. At least Ms. Agona and Mr Valenti (and myself) have the decency to make our views know publicly. By all means you have the right to voice your opinions but to do so under the guise of anonymity is what I would call cowardly. How can the voting public take your comments seriously if you don't have the gumption to stand behind them in public for the community to see. With that said - Mr Rivers, Mr Borrell take off your masks! Let's have a dialog face to face.

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Is Mrs. Maglietta incapable of speaking for herself? Or is Sal showing off his new found knowledge…Read More about when it is appropriate to recuse yourself from voting on a matter when you have an actual self interest or a perceived self interest? And will the Magliettas reimburse the school district for the campaign materials they have been sending at public expense and on School District letter head?

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