The Camden Central School District has conducted the vote on its 2025-26 proposed budget and Board of Education Elections, along with two additional propositions. The following are the results of the election.
Proposition No. 1: To vote upon the Budget for the 2025-2026 school year.
"Shall the Board of Education of the Camden Central School District be authorized to appropriate and expend an amount not to exceed $61,804,479 for general purposes for the school year 2025-2026, and to levy a tax on the taxable real property of the school district as provided by law?"
YES: 793
NO: 523
Result: The proposition has been adopted.
Proposition No. 2: The Acquisition of Gas Buses and a Student Transport Vehicle.
"Shall the Board of Education of the Camden Central School District be authorized to purchase and finance up to five (5) 65-passenger gasoline buses and no more than one (1) 7-passenger suburban, including necessary furnishings, fixtures and equipment and all other costs incidental thereto, and expend a total sum not to exceed $885,000, which is estimated to be the total maximum cost thereof, and said amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be raised by the levy of a tax upon the taxable property of said School District and collected in annual installments as provided by Section 416 of the Education Law; and, in anticipation of such tax, obligations of said School District, in the principal amount not to exceed $885,000, be issued?"
YES: 898
NO: 418
Result: The proposition has been adopted.
Proposition No. 3: To vote on the Establishment of a Capital Reserve Fund as follows:
“Shall the Board of Education of the Camden Central School District be authorized to establish a Capital Reserve Fund pursuant to New York State Education Law § 3651, to be known as the “Capital Reserve Fund – 2025” to be used to purchase school buses, district vehicles, maintenance equipment including lawn mowers, snow removal equipment, a backhoe, and incidental costs related thereto in an amount not to exceed One Million Dollars ($1,000,000), to be funded as needed from available unassigned fund balances, budgetary appropriations, or existing reserves with expenditures from such fund to be made in accordance with applicable laws and regulations; with a maximum probable term of five years, expiring June 30, 2030?”
YES: 829
NO: 476
Result: The proposition has been adopted.
Board of Education Election
In the matter of electing Board Members to fill two at-large vacancies on the Board of Education for three-year terms, the voting was as follows:
Benjamin Mitchell: 748
Mark Carpenter: 705
Jared Perham: 701
Result: Benjamin Mitchell and Mark Carpenter have been elected to three-year terms on the Camden Central School District Board of Education.