With a month to go before the 2021 Primary Elections, every voter in Cheltenham Township will have the opportunity to have our voices heard on important issues that will impact our lives for years to come.

There will be five Candidates for School Board Director and four Ballot Questions all Republicans in Cheltenham Township must rally behind.

REPUBLICAN SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES

4 YEAR TERM
Andrew Gadaleta, Jr.
Robert J. Hughes
Elaine Wolfson Rosenstein
Kyle Venit

2 YEAR TERM
Myron Goldman

The School Board has many obligations, but there are three that rise above the others:

Approve a budget that adequately funds the schools while controlling taxes
Educating every child in the school system
Hiring a Superintendent

BUDGET:
As of the March Finance Committee Meeting, the 2021-22 Budget has in excess of
a $5 million deficit that could require a 6.36% tax increase.

EDUCATION:
Excluding the time when the educational process was disrupted by the virus, between 2015-16 and 2018-19 school years, the scores on the PSSA and Keystone Tests showed little, if any, narrowing of the Achievement Gap.

HIRING A SUPERINTENDENT:
The board has yet to hire a superintendent who has significantly narrowed the Achievement Gap. If the district takes its Equity Policy seriously, shouldn’t the superintendent the board is now hiring be advised he/she will be evaluated on his/her success in significantly raising the achievement level of the students the schools have been failing to educate?

PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 1:
TERMINATION OR EXTENSION OF DISASTER EMERGENCY DECLARATIONS

Ballot Question

Shall the Pennsylvania Constitution be amended to change existing law and increase the power of the General Assembly to unilaterally terminate or extend a disaster emergency declaration—and the powers of Commonwealth agencies to address the disaster regardless of its severity pursuant to that declaration—through passing a concurrent resolution by simple majority, thereby removing the existing check and balance of presenting a resolution to the Governor for approval or disapproval?

Vote yes

PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 2:
DISASTER EMERGENCY DECLARATION AND MANAGEMENT

Ballot Question

Shall the Pennsylvania Constitution be amended to change existing law so that: a disaster emergency declaration will expire automatically after 21 days, regardless of the severity of the emergency, unless the General Assembly takes action to extend the disaster emergency; the Governor may not declare a new disaster emergency to respond to the dangers facing the Commonwealth unless the General Assembly passes a concurrent resolution; the General Assembly enacts new laws for disaster management?

Vote yes

PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 3:
PROHIBITION AGAINST DENIAL OR ABRIDGEMENT OF EQUALITY OF RIGHTS BECAUSE OF RACE OR ETHNICITY

Ballot Question

Shall the Pennsylvania Constitution be amended by adding a new section providing that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of an individual’s race or ethnicity?

Vote yes

STATEWIDE REFERENDUM – ACT 2020-91:
MAKING MUNICIPAL FIRE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES COMPANIES ELIGIBLE FOR LOANS BALLOT QUESTION

Do you favor expanding the use of the indebtedness authorized under the referendum for loans to volunteer fire companies, volunteer ambulance services and volunteer rescue squads under 35 PA.C.S. Section 7378.1 (related to referendum for additional indebtedness) to include loans to municipal fire departments or companies that provide services through paid personnel and emergency medical services companies for the purpose of establishing and modernizing facilities to house apparatus equipment, ambulances and rescue vehicles, and for purchasing apparatus equipment, ambulances and rescue vehicles, protective and communications equipment and any other accessory equipment necessary for the proper performance of the duties of the fire companies and emergency medical services companies?

Vote yes

2021 PRIMARY ELECTION REPUBLICAN SAMPLE BALLOT

If you have any questions about Primary Election Day 2021 please contact me via email at [email protected].

-Myron Goldman, CTRO Chairman