Marcus Nicolas, the incumbent running for the Leon County School Board District 5 seat, was reelected by a wide margin.<\/p>\n
In Leon County school board races, only residents of the district vote in the race.<\/p>\n
Nicolas received approximately 71 percent of the vote against his opponent James Reilly, a local hospitality manager.<\/p>\n
The race was Reilly’s first bid for political office.<\/p>\n
As polls closed and final votes were tallied, Nicolas, surrounded by friends, family and colleagues celebrated his chance to continue serving the children and families of Leon County.<\/p>\n
“We are looking forward to the conclusion of this night and tomorrow so we can get right back to work,” Nicolas said.<\/p>\n
Nicolas was first elected in 2022, and the reelection marks the start of his second term.<\/p>\n
According to the Leon County Supervisor of Elections, the position earns an annual salary of $48,174.<\/p>\n
He was recently named president of Tallahassee-based public relations firm ESPMedia.<\/p>\n
The reelection comes as the school board navigates financial woes amid underfunding from the state and a rising cost in expenses.<\/p>\n
Nicolas will continue to have a voice in the decision-making process that will shape the district’s financial future.<\/p>\n
“Every student counts and we can’t lose any students, so we have to continue to grind and push and fight for our students,” Nicolas said.<\/p>\n
Nicolas will be sworn in on Nov. 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Nicolas, the incumbent running for the Leon County School Board District 5 seat, was reelected by a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-375209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}