School budget votes and Board of Education elections: Chester and Goshen

School district residents will vote exclusively via absentee ballot. All absentee ballots must be submitted to the school district’s clerk office by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 9.

What follows are summaries of what’s on the ballots:

Chester

Proposed Budget: $29,613,452

Spending Increase: $856,656/ 2.98 percent

Tax Levy Decrease: - $1,001/- 0.01 percent

Additional Propositions: None

Board of Education candidates: Two seats, three-year terms

* Keith Brideweser

* Frank Sambets

* Incumbent

Goshen

Proposed Budget: $76,083,837

Spending Increase: $2,834,060/ 3.87 percent

Tax Levy Increase: $1,835,633/3.52 percent

Additional Propositions: Eight school buses - $680,999 (Sixty percent of this cost will be paid by state aid; the remainder will be bonded over five years beginning in 2021-2022.)

Board of Education candidates: Two seats, three-year terms

* Thomas Mullane

Juan D. Paneto

* Allison Salte

* Incumbent