Make sure you vote on May 19

I was sorry to read in the New Paltz Times the headline asserting that the New Paltz School Board election is a done deal. I hope that voters in the New Paltz School District will not be discouraged from coming out to vote for the budget on Tuesday, May 19 at the high school beginning at noon. It is important to pass the school budget that the board and the administration have worked hard to make responsive to the economic times without crippling the school program. This budget is actually lower than the contingency budget mandated to be put in place if the board's budget is rejected. That is to say if it is rejected after a second expensive election.

As for the candidates, the village election has just shown us how well a write-in candidate can do.

Please come out and vote for the budget and KT, Dan and Don so that the school board will feel the support of the community in its hard work in the coming year.

Margaret Human
New Paltz
(this letter appeared in the New Paltz Times, May 13th edition)