Trustees Natalie Marrero, Will Treves and Jackie De Angelis are running unopposed for reelection to three seats on the Pelham Board of Education.
The candidates, all seeking second three-year terms, were confirmed in an email from District Clerk Valerie Miller after nominating petitions were due last week for the May 20 school district election.
De Angelis is currently the president of the board and Marrero serves as vice president. (Board officers are elected to one-year terms by the the trustees at their organizational meeting in July.)
This is the first uncontested school board race since 2020, when voting was delayed until June and carried out by mail balloting due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Also on the ballot will be the district’s $96.3 million annual budget, which would increase spending 2.9% and taxes 3.48%, as well as four capital bond propositions totaling $143.6 million to fund repairs and renovations at several schools (Prop 1), an addition at Siwanoy Elementary School (Prop 2), an addition at Pelham Memorial High School (Prop 3) and geothermal systems for Siwanoy and Prospect Hill elementary schools (Prop 4). Proposition 1 must be adopted for the other referenda to pass, even if any of the latter three receive enough votes to win approval on their own.
Voters will also decide on a separate proposition that would permit the district to spend as much as $1.85 million to purchase and renovate the house at 29 Franklin Place for office space.
Balloting will take place in the Pelham Middle School gymnasium on May 20 from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
