TOWN OF WALLKILL – The Pine Bush School Board would like the state to consider allowing school boards statewide to have their members elected by the ward system instead of at-large as is the case now.
The Wallkill Town Board has gone on record supporting that effort. Town Supervisor Daniel Depew said a ward system would make for more representative governing, regardless of the entity.
“You could potentially have a whole school board or a whole town board coming from the same region of a town and how that could really hurt the decisions that are made and how they could lean and be looked at through a real monocular point of view and the ward system is a much better way to go about it,” Depew said.
The town board is going to transmit its support for school district wards
to state officials in Albany.
County Executive Byrne announces constituent forums
May 12, 2024
