Final Campaign Stop For BOE Candidates Tonight

Voters tonight will have one last opportunity to meet the candidates vying for Board of Election seats ahead of Wednesday’s polling.

Candidates have been invited to speak at the Wall Republican Club meeting being held at the Wexford Assisted Living facility, 2018 Route 35.

The meeting is open to the public and is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m.

Incumbents David Wren, 3243 Rambling Hill Ct., Douglas Wild, 2131 Old Mill Road, and Pamela Perrotto, 2315 Xanadu Lane, have filed to run to retain their seats. 

Challenging them are five newcomers: Robin Cervantes, 2009 Tally Ho Drive; Timothy Farrell, 1601 Walton Way; Anne Moonan, 1910 Sherwood Drive; Joseph Tonzola, 2400 Lincoln Ave.; and John Tavis, 1610 Holly Blvd.

Tavis and Perotto are running for the one-year unexpired term of former board member Michael Bogner, who resigned in July, 2010.

Cervantes, Farrell, Moonan, Tonzola, Wren and Wild are all running for full, three-year terms.

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Also at stake in Wednesday’s polling is the school district’s $60 million 2011-12 budget.

Voters will decide if they support the proposed $56,829,239 tax levy in support of the district’s $61,039,000 spending plan for the next school year.

The budget is up $1,353,500 or 2.27 percent from last year’s $59,685,500 spending plan. The $56,829,239 tax levy is up $1,111,890 or 2 percent from last year’s $55,717,349 levy.

The district’s proposed tax rate of  $1.558 is up five cents from last year’s rate of $1.508, an increase of 3.32 percent. On a home valued at $312,700 – the township average – the 2011-12 tax bill would be $4,871.87, an increase of  $156.35 over last year’s $4,715.52 bill.

There also is a proposed second question, asking voters to foot the bill to retain the six custodial positions cut under the budget. It would raise the tax rate an additional $.004 cents to $1.562.

That would bring the tax bill on the average home assessment to $4,884.37, an increase of $12.50 over the budget alone.