11 Elected to Scarsdale School Board Nominating Committee

Eleven local residents were elected to the Scarsdale School Board Nominating Committee during Tuesday’s vote, officials announced.

A total of 431 votes were cast, with the Fox Meadow district casting the highest number of votes at 200.

The 11 new members will join the 19 previously elected, and together they will nominate two candidates for the Board of Education.

Below is the committee’s announcement about Tuesday’s election:

The following candidates were elected from each neighborhood on Tuesday, January 13th to join the Scarsdale School Board Nominating Committee:

Edgewood: Moira Ann Crouch and Daniel Moretti
Fox Meadow: Liz Guggenheimer and Pam Rubin
Greenacres: Elyse Mall Klayman and Terri Simon
Heathcote: Qing (Claire) He, Sarah Persily and Jacqueline Irwin (2-year term)
Quaker Ridge: Jonathan Birenbaum and Lauren Rimland

There were 431 total votes cast in the election. Fox Meadow had the highest number of voters with 200 ballots cast, followed by Heathcote with 94 ballots cast, Greenacres with 51, Quaker Ridge with 47 and Edgewood with 39. This compares favorably to last year’s 525 votes, a record number with five fully contested elections.

This year’s eleven new SBNC members will join nineteen others already on the committee serving staggeredthree-year terms. The committee will have its first meeting on Sunday, January 25th and by the end of March will nominate two candidates for the Scarsdale Board Education to fill the seats currently held by Mary Beth Gose and Lewis Leone, Jr. Ms. Gose and Mr. Leone are completing their second terms and neither is eligible for re-nomination. The SBNC Board of Education candidates, along with any other candidates who may choose to run, will be up for public election at the same time as the School Budget vote in May 2015.