John Bieringer is the newest candidate to win election to the Washington-Caldwell School Board.
Bieringer and Stacey Forkner both were write-in candidates for one of two vacant school board positions in the April 1 election. Another candidate, Yvonne McGilvary, filed election papers and her name appeared on the April 1 ballot. McGilvary received 115 votes to secure one of the two open spots.
But that still left one board position to fill.
The two board vacancies resulted when incumbents Tim Baker and Dan Theriault chose not to run for re-election.
In the end, Bieringer and Forkner each received exactly 21 write-in votes – a tie broken Monday night when Forkner called “tails” and a coin flipped by Theriault, the board clerk, landed on “heads.”
Bieringer and McGilvary will both take their oaths of office Wednesday, April 16, at the district’s next school board meeting, joining incumbents Todd Bluhm, Tim Szeklinski and Robert Dixon, as well as outgoing members Baker and Theriault.
Bieringer and McGilvary will then officially take office at midnight on Monday, April 28. (The print edition of the Waterford Post incorrectly gave Bieringer’s first name as Dan, rather than as John).
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