GUILDERLAND — All three of the school board members whose terms expire this year — Catherine Barber, Jennifer Charron, and Christine Hayes — are undecided on whether to run again.

“I’ve picked up the packet but I haven’t decided,” said Charron this week.

Packets outlining board member qualifications and duties along with petitions are available through the district office. Any district resident who is at least 18 and a qualified voter may run by submitting a petition with 53 signatures of district voters — 2 percent of those who voted last year — by April 20 at 5 p.m.

The board has nine unpaid members elected at large who serve three-year terms. The elections for the last two years have been uncontested. This year’s vote is on May 19.

Charron, whose husband died her first year on the board, said, “I stayed on the board because budget season was a wonderful distraction…I enjoy getting involved with the numbers.”

When she made her inaugural run for the board three years ago, Charron, the owner of Helderberg Partners, Ltd., a nationwide energy research website that she designed and launched, said she would like to use her business acumen to reduce the budget without cutting teachers.

Drastic cuts have been made — over 227 jobs since 2009 — as the district faced multi-million-dollar budget gaps due to declining aid and a state-set tax-levy cap.

“I’m expecting change,” said Charron this week. Referring to a capacity study by consultant Paul Seversky on excess space in the schools as enrollment declines, she said, “We’ve got a task ahead of us.” A task force first met this week to work on exploring the viability of various ways to repurpose unused space in the schools.

Asked about her goals if she decides to run for another term on the board, Charron said, “I’m hoping we come out of this recession and are able to take all the things that made Guilderland a top district and expand on them.”

Charron has a son, a Guilderland graduate, currently a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and a daughter at Guilderland High School.

She said of her individual role on the board that she is trying “to steer the district into including technology.”

Christine Hayes who has also served one term on the board, said she has not decided whether she’ll run for another. “I’m still thinking about it,” she said.

A 1999 Guilderland graduate, she is the youngest board member. After graduating from law school, she went back to school for teaching certification, and then for the last two-and-a-half years has worked as in-house counsel for Albany Medical Center.

When she ran three years ago, Hayes said, “You don’t have to have kids to care about the schools. I care about my community and want to give kids a voice.”

“I really enjoy it and love everybody I work with,” said Hayes this week of being on the school board.

But, she went on, “It’s very time consuming.” She said she wants to make sure she has the time to do the job justice.

“I just want to see us keep moving in the right direction,” she said of her goals. Hayes mentioned the importance of exploring options for school use and concluded, “I have confidence they will move in the right direction.”

Catherine Barber served two terms on the school board — in each election garnering the most votes — before retiring in 2011 when she was the board’s vice president. After taking a year off, she ran again in 2012 and won another term; she came in a close second to Hayes in a four-way race for three seats.

Asked this week if she would run for a fourth term, Barber said, “Well, I haven’t completely decided…The last time I didn’t run, my son had just graduated from high school. Now he is graduating from college. Maybe his graduation gives me a sense of moving on.”

Barber and her husband, Peter, also have a daughter who graduated from Guilderland. Barber works both as a lawyer — writing appeals briefs for the Appellate Division 3rd Department — and as a musician, playing the violin in the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra. (She notes a March 29 concert at Proctor’s GE Theatre will feature “local celebrities,” including Superintendent Marie Wiles, playing toy instruments, like kazoos and triangles, in the “Toy Symphony,” which as been attributed to Joseph Haydn, Leopold Mozart, and Edmund Angerer by scholars at various times.)

During her most recent term, Barber is most proud of the role she played, in the wake of the uproar over the consultant’s report on excess capacity, “in redirecting the focus on closing schools to repurposing space.”

She went on, “Dr. Seversky’s report focused so much on one school, Altamont, and a little on Lynnwood,” which upset people. “I had some part in redirecting attention from that to get it focused on what we’re doing now — repurposing space instead of closing a building.”

Asked about goals for a future term, Barber said, “I’ve always been an advocate for music…The current climate — not the school district’s fault — with more state and federal regulations is to focus on subjects that are extensively tested. My worry is the arts and other important aspects of education are being given less importance. Everyone is being compelled to narrowly focus on extensively tested subjects.”

She noted that Wiles’s $93 million budget proposal for next year is not as dire as in recent years, with a much smaller budget gap. “Things are not being cut as much as before,” said Barber, “but they’re not being restored to their previous level.”

Barber said she would join other board members in advocating for subjects like music, art, and foreign languages.