Budget and three open seats on ballot

The Howland Public Library in Beacon will hold its annual budget and trustee vote on Thursday (May 1) from noon to 8 p.m. at the library. It is open to residents of the Beacon City School District.

The Howland’s proposed 2025-26 budget is $1.569 million, a 4 percent increase. Of that, about $1.254 million is for employee salaries and benefits and $116,000 for programming and materials. The library plans to raise $1.488 million from taxes.

Howland budget

There are five candidates — Jason Chase, Ruth Danon, Sarah From, Kathy Furfey and incumbent David Lemon — for three board vacancies, each with a five-year term. The candidate’s biographies are posted at beaconlibrary.org/annual-vote.

The other board members are Jessica Conway, Jeffrey Yang, Helen Lowery, Emily Murnane, Elizabeth Murphy, Emily Pullen, Brooke Simmons and Joe Vergolina. Conway and Yang are not running for re-election.

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Ralph Pettorossi

$1.6 million budget, of which a whopping 80 percent, or $1.3 million, is for salaries and benefits. They have a nice little racket going on there.

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