Schools
Tim Taylor Wins Write-In Election for Board of Education Seat
Current BOE Vice President wins third term.
After weeks of uncertainty and an unusual write-in election for one seat on the Massapequa School Board, incumbent Tim Taylor was elected to a third term Tuesday.
Taylor won the trustee seat with 702 write-in votes. Leslie Dowell, a Board candidate in 2008 and former Massapequa Council of PTA's president, finished second with 239 votes. And former PTA President Christine Lupetin Perrino came in third with 223 votes.
The vote results were announced shortly before 1 a.m. Wednesday and the total number of votes cast were not immediately available.
Taylor, who currently serves as board vice president, had mulled retiring, but said he changed his mind in order to ease the transition to a new superintendent in July.
He had been the only candidate to pick up nominating petitions, according to the district clerk, but jeopardized his re-election when he missed the filing deadline by five minutes.
That led to the write-in election as Taylor asked that he be considered a candidate. Despite the opening for other candidates he defeated his closest opponent by a more than 2-1 margin.
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