Albany voters will have a safe way to vote for Albany Public Library trustees, the Albany City School District board, and the ACSD budget. It is being conducted entirely by absentee ballot.
Ballots will be mailed in late May to qualified voters and are due by June 9 at 5 p.m. This is not a postmark deadline. At that time, the district will begin the process of counting the votes to determine the results.
Since the APL trustees did not request an increase in the library budget for 2020-2021, no budget vote is required. There are eight candidates on the ballot for two open APL trustee seats in the election. There are two seats, both carrying full five-year terms, open.
The candidates were placed on the ballot in alphabetical order:
- Jessica Balarin of Partridge St.
- Kewsi Burgess of Catherine St.
- Donna Dixon of Fleetwood Ave.
- Jeffrey Keller of Walter St.
- Thomas McCarthy Jr. of Stueben St.
- Katharine McNamara of Cardinal Ave.
- James Munro of Glendale Ave.
- Brigette Pryor of Myrtle Ave.
The library will publish candidate biographical information on its website by May 26. APL will be hosting a virtual meet-the-candidate forum on Tuesday, May 26 at 6 p.m. It will be live-streamed on YouTube and recorded for later viewing.
Note: Federal, State and Local primary voting will take place on June 23, 2020. Contact the Albany County Board of Elections for more details on primaries.
