Port Washington Board of Education Trustees Deborah Brooks and Emily Beys were re-elected to serve another three years Tuesday.
The district’s adopted $174.8 million budget for the 2022-23 school year was also approved 2,369-762. The budget is a 4.5% increase from this year’s $167,268,942 budget.
The budget calls for a 2.5% increase in the tax levy, which falls below the state-mandated cap. The 2022-23 tax levy is slightly more than $150.5 million.
A resolution for the district to create a capital reserve fund for a facilities improvement program was passed 2,150-573. The reserve fund, district officials said, will serve as a savings account and will place no burden on taxpayers.
Beys received 1,970 votes while Brooks received 1,758. Challenger Michael Tretola received 1,325 votes.
Beys, who has served two terms as a board member, was first elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2019.
She was unanimously chosen by the board to serve as president last year.
Beys worked in advertising and marketing and was president of the Parents Council, Schreiber Home-School Association and Weber Home-School Association before getting elected to the school board.
Brooks, a lawyer, was first elected to the school board in 2019.
A proponent of a whole-child education, Abramson-Brooks was appointed by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to serve on the state’s Common Core Task Force.
Abramson-Brooks also worked to ensure the district obtained what she said is its share of state aid as a result of the pandemic. She described herself as a “fiscal conservative.”
