GENERAL INFORMATION:

Time and Place of Voting; District-Wide Budget Re-vote; Voter Registration; Absentee Ballots; Early Mail Ballots and Military Ballots.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the Budget Re-vote will be held on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.; for the purpose of voting on the revised 2026-2027 budget of the City School District of the City of Mount Vernon, New York.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the public hearing on the school budget shall be held on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. at the Education Center located at 165 North Columbus Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN residents may review a copy of the budget which will be placed on the District’s website, during the fourteen (14) days immediately preceding the date of the Budget Re-vote.

A Real Property Tax Exemption Report prepared in accordance with Section 495 of the Real Property Tax Law will be annexed to any proposed budget as well as the final adopted budget of which it will form a part; and shall be posted on the District bulletin board maintained for public notices, as well as on the District’s website.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that applications for an absentee and early ballot may be applied for at the Office of the District Clerk, located in the Administrative Offices of the Mount Vernon City School District, 165 N. Columbus Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York 10553. An application for an absentee/early mail ballot on the form prescribed by New York State Board of Elections must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) days before the Budget Re-vote if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or the day before the Budget Re-vote if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter or his/her designated agent. Upon receiving a timely application for a mailed absentee ballot, the District Clerk will mail the ballot to the address designated on the application by no later than six (6) days before the Budget Re-vote.

No absentee/early mail voter’s ballot will be counted unless it is received in the Office of the District Clerk of the City School District of the City of Mount Vernon, 165 North Columbus Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York by 5:00 p.m. on the day of the Budget Re-Vote.

Qualifications for Absentee Ballot Applications:

 A qualified voter may vote as an absentee voter under this section, if during all the hours of voting on the day of an election he or she will be:

1. Absent from the county of his or her residence; or
2. Unable to appear at the polling place because of illness or physical disability, or duties related to the primary care of one or more individuals who are ill or physically disabled; or
3. An inmate for any reason other than conviction of a felony (Education Law §§2018-a; 2018-b) or patient of a veteran’s administration hospital; or
4. Absent from his or her voting residence because he or she is detained in jail.
5. Voters with permanent disabilities, registration records should be marked so that they automatically receive absentee ballots for each election (Education Law §§2018-a(2)(g), 2018-b(2)(g).

Qualifications for Early Mail Ballot Applications:

1. A qualified voter must be a citizen of the U.S.;
2. 18 years of age;
3. A resident of the district for at least 30 days prior to the meeting; and not otherwise prohibited under Election Law §5-106 (Education Law § 2012)

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN the Board of Registration of the City School District of the City of Mount Vernon shall meet to prepare the School Election District Registers for the Budget Re-vote on June 2, 2026, between the hours of 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Board Room at the Education Center, 165 North Columbus Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York. Any person, who is not already registered, upon proving his/her entitlement to vote in the District, may have his/her name placed on the Register. The Register containing the names of the qualified voters will be available for inspection in the District Clerk’s Office during each of the five days prior to the Budget Re-Vote between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

IN ORDER TO VOTE IN THE BUDGET RE-VOTE, READ CAREFULLY THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS:

IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO REGISTER FOR THIS COMING SCHOOL BUDGET RE-VOTE

1. If you were registered but have changed your place of residence since that time.
2. If you were not registered under PERMANENT PERSONAL REGISTRATION.
3. If you now have acquired or by June 9^th will have acquired the required qualifications to vote in the forthcoming School Budget Re-vote under the qualifications of voters listed below:

The qualifications for voting are:

1. A citizen of the United States.
2. 18 years of age or over.
3. A resident of New York State and the City School District of the City of Mount Vernon for at least 30days preceding the Election.

DATE OF REGISTRATION

TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2026, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 11:00 A.M. AND 5:00 P.M., IN THE BOARD ROOM OF THE EDUCATION CENTER, 165 NORTH COLUMBUS AVENUE, MOUNT VERNON, NEW YORK.

NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that an accurate description of the boundaries of the School Election District into which the City School District of the City of Mount Vernon is divided, is on file and may be inspected at the Office of the District Clerk, 165 North Columbus Avenue, Mount Vernon, New York. The public schools where such Budget Re-vote will be held are as follows:

DISTRICT NO.                     NAME AND LOCATION OF POLLING PLACES

1                                  Lincoln School, 170 East Lincoln Avenue

5                                  Hamilton School, 20 Oak Street

6                                  Traphagen School, 72 Lexington Avenue

7                                  Edward Williams School, 9 Union Lane

9                                  Graham School, 421 East 5^th Street

11                                Pennington School, 20 Fairway

14                                Rebecca Turner Academy, 625 South Fourth Avenue

22                                Grimes School, 58 South 10^th Avenue

Budget Re-vote Information will be available on the website at: www.mtvernoncsd.org/election in multiple languages.

AND FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that military voters who are not currently registered may apply to register as a qualified voter of the school district. Military voters who are qualified voters of the school district may submit an application for a military ballot. Military voters may designate a preference to receive a military voter registration, military ballot application or military ballot by mail, facsimile transmission or electronic mail in their request for such registration, ballot application or ballot. Military voter registration forms and military ballot application forms must be received in the Office of the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on June 2, 2026. No military ballot will be canvassed unless it is (1) received in the Office of the District Clerk before the close of the polls on election day and showing a cancellation mark of the United States postal service or a foreign country’s postal service, or showing a dated endorsement of receipt by another agency of the United

States government; or (2) received by the Office of the District Clerk by no later than 5:00 p.m. on election day and signed and dated by the military voter and one witness thereto, with a date which is associated to be no later than the day before the election.

By Order of the Board of Education
Of the City School District of the City of Mount Vernon, New York
Rita James, District Clerk