Brick BOE Candidates Have Until June to File

The move from an April school board election to a November contest means candidates have until June 5 to file petitions with Ocean County.

Monday, Feb. 27 would have been the deadline to file for an April election.

The Boards of Education in Brick decided in January to move elections to November, in order to keep the school board election in line with the general election.

In Brick, four seats – meaning a majority – will be up for grabs. Those seats belong to current board members Kim Terebush, Len Cuppari, Susan Suter and Walter F. Campbell.

Suter won election last April to fill Robert J. Collier's unexpired term on the board. Campbell was appointed by the board last summer to replace Warren Wolf, who resigned.

The move to November elections also means Brick's school tax levy will no longer be before voters and will instead be decided by the school boards this spring, unless the tax levies increase more than 2 percent from last year's levels.

The move to a November election was allowed under a newly passed , giving districts the choice to keep an April election or move it to coincide with the general election in November.

Candidates will be listed in a separate section of the November ballot, as school board elections are nonpartisan.

Lakewood will still have an April school board election and budget vote, but nearly every other school district in Ocean County decided to move its school board election to November.