Mount Vernon School & Library Board Election Results

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Mount Vernon School & Library Board Election Results

School district elections took place on Tuesday, May 20th. In the city of Mount Vernon, the polls closed at 9 pm. All districts are now in, with a total number of 2841 voters, 111 absentee votes, and 6 early votes. The winners in the hotly contested Mount Vernon City School District (MVCSD) School Board Trustees race are Sakai Brown (1698 votes), Erica Peterson (1633 votes), and Randoff Scott (1541 votes), who defeated incumbents President Adriane Saunders who had 874 votes and Lorna Kirwan (693 votes) and their running mate, former Trustee Orville Gayle (825 votes). Chara Gladden finished with 196 votes.

Voters approved a $272,266,615 budget for the MVCSD 2025-2026 school year by a 1,400-1,138 vote – unofficially on Tuesday. According to the MVCSD, the new budget is 0.35 percent higher than the current budget, with the tax levy expected to increase by 3.3 percent.

Voters elected three members to the Board of Education. Brown, Peterson, and Scott will be sworn in at a Reorganizational Meeting of the Board of Education on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, and will serve a full term, expiring June 30, 2028.

The MVCSD Board of Education – the official policy-making body of the school district – works closely with the Superintendent of Schools and his administration to oversee educational and enrichment programs to provide the best possible outcomes for students. The nine board members are elected by the public and service three-year terms without paid compensation.

The winners in the race for Mount Vernon Public Library (MVPL) Trustee are incumbent Cynthia Crenshaw won re-election with 1275 votes, and Cynthia Dickerson, with 1162 votes. They defeated Tamara Stewart, who received 956 votes, former trustee Jonathan Davis (854 votes), and Incumbent Hudson Trader, who received 174 votes.

Voters elected two members to the MVPL Board of Trustees. Crenshaw, who will serve a full term, expiring June 30, 2030, and Dickerson, who will serve until June 30, 2028, will be sworn in on Wednesday, May 21st, at their regularly scheduled board meeting, according to the Board President Hope Marable.

Election results were certified at the Board of Education located at 165 N Columbus Ave, after polls closed.

Placements for Student Transfers in Building Reorganization

With three schools closing, MVCSD announced on Tuesday that “students will receive an official notification of which school they will be placed in during the first week of June. These assignments apply only to students who are not in a special placement or program class assignment, such as special education. Those placements will be determined based on their Individualized Education Program (IEP) and the Special Education Department. The current placements of students who are transferring can be viewed in this news post. These placements are subject to change based on student residency.”

This post Mount Vernon School & Library Board Election Results first appears on Black Westchester and is written by AJ Woodson