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MJ local mobileSchool levy looms, re-elected board candidate says
Incumbents return to Middletown schools; Madison elects two newcomers.
MIDDLETOWN — Middletown school board President Greg Tyus was a sure thing for re-election Tuesday, Nov. 3, because he ran unopposed — but it didn’t stop him from visiting the polls to get the word out about issues vital to the district.
Tyus was elected to his second full term with 4,003 votes according to final, unofficial results from the elections boards in Butler and Warren counties. Fellow incumbent Marcia Andrew was re-elected to her second term with 5,972 votes.
Tyus and Andrew said the search for a new superintendent and operating on a lean budget as to big issues facing the district in the coming months.
The district will have to go the ballot for an operating levy soon to renew or replace two temporary operating levies that expire in December 2010.
“(The district) is more than likely going to the ballot in May,” Tyus said, adding he talked with voters Tuesday about that issue. “We also continue looking at ways we can cut our budget.”
But he added the most important issue is to find a new superintendent.
Tyus said the beginning of this school year has been a positive one for the district.
Andrew said we are “we are continuing to work to improve academic achievement in the school district.”
She added a new superintendent is key to that mission.
“We are hoping to find a new superintendent that will really inject some exuberance and excitement into the district at all levels,” Andrew said.
Two challengers, Mike Miller and Marva Sampson, were elected to the Madison Board of Education with incumbent, Glenn Cappel, losing his seat.
Miller was the top vote-getter with 1,584 votes for 45.24 percent; Sampson received 987 votes for 28.19 percent, and Cappel got 930 votes or 26.56 percent.
Sampson, retired director of the Middletown department of human resources, said she is a longtime Madison Twp. resident who loves the community.
“I am so thankful for the people who were supporting me,” Sampson said.
Miller, the father of three, said his experience at Procter & Gamble writing various business plans was something that might benefit the board. “An ongoing need is to improve education with limited funds,” he said.
Pete Robinson, who was appointed in August to fill an unexpired seat was elected to his first full term, receiving 1,052 votes or 50.02 percent, besting Angela Whiteman who received 1,051 votes or 49.98 percent.
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