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Herald & Lantern 20 April '83

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Majority Backed Winners, Budget

Hv BOB SIIII.KS All a-inning candidates and lax levy proposals were deci<led by a majorih nl voli*rs casting ballots in last w cck ' s' Lowc-r Township ScIvkiI District

elections By contrast, the top voter getter in last year s hotly contested race won with only 45 percent of the votes cast The other two winners in a.field of eight

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received 44 and 42 percent, respectively, and the district's budget squeaked by with only 45 percent of the turnout In last week's five-way race for three available three year terms on the Klementary School Board, the top three vote getters received more than 50 per cent of the total votes cast The trend was the same for the budget, the lax. levy sliding through h\ i»5 voles "Meanwhile, township voters were also easy on the Lower Cape May Regional School District, passing its current expense budget by slightly over 51 percent of the total vole District-wide the l,(»2<» voters in the township. West ('ape May and Cape May City, okayed the budget with just over 50 percent o! the total votes cast West Cape May s 4H voters approved it by a whopping Kl percent, while Cape May s 722 voters passed it w ith only >2 2 per cent in favor ' There are almost Ii.inhi. voters in Lower Township i it ibis numcr H5I or about H 5 |>crcenl. voted in the elementary district, find HI** or *i 2 |)crcem went to the (Hills in the Regional District Like other years, not overs voter who entered the (Hills (lulled all the levers be s entitled to pull Although not extremely signdicjint in this years outcome, this tad coupled with a close election olien moan" less than a majority ot snlers actually decide election results Meres ,i breakdown ol

last week's voting in the two school districts'. TOWNSHIP ELEMEN TARY The $2,631,080 tax levy in support of the current expense portion of the $3 7 million budget, wasap proved 447. or 52.5 percent of the vote, to 3H2. or 44 9 percent Approval meank a tax rate increase of about four cents per $I«hi of assessed valuation. HH cents to 92 cents The results show that 22 voters failed to vote on the An Analysis budget, and only five percent of the municipality's eligible voters pussetf the budget The totaL numlier of voters was (Town 111 from 1982 The budget question apparently was decided in the Consolidated District, where it was approved by more than a lour to one margin The budge! was defeated however, by a two to one margin in the Villas and by Hi votes in Town Bank In the race for three three year seats, meum IhuiI Dolly MacDonald. 493. lormer board member Bart Russell. 4<il. and newcomer Diana Hevener. 438, out polled challengers Mary Kllcn Dai no. 371. and Art St .John. 350; Mac Donald received 58 percent ol the total voles cast at the polls Russell 54 2 percent. Hevener 51 5 percent. Damn 44 percent and SI •John 41 perceht The in cumbent was also the high vote getter in all districts but the Consolidated Sch<H>|. where she was out (Hilled by Russell

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LOWER REGIONAL - Overall, the total $5.7 million budget was approved — district-wide voters passing the $4,187,695 current expense tax levy 854-631, and the $20.<XX) capital improvements tax levy 819 646 But While both tax levies passed com for tably in Lower Township and West Cape May. Cape May City narrowly appfov cd the current expense 363 319. and the capital outlay 350 lo 323 R was a big year in Cape May. 722 voters casting ballots com pared to 208 in 1982 In the township, both tax levies passed in the Con solidated District, 198 49. and Villas. 69-63 The cur rent expense was defeated in Town Bank. 163 170, and Ihe capital outlay fell in the same district 160-169 More than 100 who went to Ihe polls failed to vote for the budget

According to Regional Board Secretary .Jane Turkington. HI fewer township voters cast ballots this year than in 1982 Just under five per cent of the total electorate approved the proposal In the uncontested school board election for three three-year seals, newcomer Patricia Smith was high vote getter with 634 She was followed hy in c u m b e n I s Freeman Douglass. 627. and Dolton Brooks, 602 Only Ihe township's three scats on the nine-member board were up for grabs this year The I^ower Cape May Regional Board oversees operations at the Lower Cape May Regional High School and the Richard Teitelman School The board's reorganization will lx* held tomorrow night at 8 in the Regional High School library

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