Point Boro and Point Beach School Board Candidates Now Have Until June 5 to File

The move from an April school board election to a November one means candidates have until June 5 to file petitions with Ocean County.

Yesterday (Monday) was the deadline to file for an April election.

The Boards of Education in and each voted to move the school elections to November.

In Point Borough, there are three, three-year seats up for grabs. They are now held by Louis Cuevas, Joan Speroni and Rick Ruiz.

In Point Beach, there are two, three-years seats expiring which are now held by Michael Spader and James Ireland.

That also means the Point Borough and Point Beach school tax levies will no longer be before voters and will instead be decided by the school boards this spring, unless the tax levies increase more than 2 percent from last year's levels.

The move to a November election was allowed under a newly passed , giving districts the choice to keep an April election or move it to coincide with the general election in November.

Candidates will be listed in a separate section of the November ballot, as school board elections are nonpartisan.

Lakewood will still have an April school board election and budget vote, but nearly every other school district in decided to move its school board election to November.