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Board divided on filling vacant seat; trustees take no action for now
Summary
After extended debate, Cornwall Central School District trustees decided not to fill a recently vacated seat at this meeting, choosing instead to leave the board as an eight‑member body for now while keeping open the option of soliciting applicants later.
The Cornwall Central School District Board of Education debated how to fill a vacant trustee seat and ultimately chose to take no action at this meeting.
What the board discussed
Trustees reviewed three primary options: (1) hold a special election (which members said would be expensive and impractical in the short term); (2) solicit letters of interest from the community and appoint an applicant to serve until the next regular election; or (3) leave the seat vacant and allow the BOCES superintendent (the state supervising official) to act if the vacancy remains unfilled after 90 days.
Several board members said the district should solicit…
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