Student, 4 Adults Running for Salisbury School Board

The Salisbury School Board race features perhaps the youngest municipal candidate in the Lehigh Valley—high school student Chad Gleissl.

Five candidates are running for four seats, each a four-year-term.

Patch is in the process of sending a questionnaire to the candidates. But here's a preview of the race thanks to information from the League of Women Voters (LMV) online voters guide for the primary.

Challenges facing the school district include a $740K budget gap.

Primary election day is Tuesday, May 21.

Four candidates are cross-filed:

• Incumbent Mary L. Ziegler has been on the school board for eight years and works as an administrative assistant.
• Gleissl is a junior at Salisbury High School and has a website promoting his candidacy.
• Audrey Frick, a first-grade teacher for seven years, works at St. Ann's School in Emmaus.
• Candidate Robert Fischer did not respond to the LWV's survey.

Christopher J. Spedaliere, a development scientist, is running only on the Republican ticket.

The top four vote-getters on the Republican and Democratic ballot will face off in the general election. If they happen to be the same candidates, the race will be decided in the primary barring any write-in campaigns in the fall.