GUILDERLAND — Several seats will be opening soon on both the Guilderland School Board and the Guilderland Public Library Board.

On the school board, Vice President Christopher McManus’s first three-year term is coming to a close in June 2017, as are the terms of long-time members Allan Simpson and Judy Slack.

McManus told The Enterprise that he has not made a decision yet about whether to run. Slack said, “At this point, I think I will be.” Simpson could not be reached for comment.

School district clerk Linda Livingston said that Guilderland resident Sean Maguire has picked up an informational packet at the district offices, suggesting that he is considering a run.

McManus is currently serving  his second term as a board member. He has worked for New York State for over a decade, first as a senior analyst with the Senate Finance Committee and now as an associate budget analyst with the Economics and Revenue Unit of the Division of Budget.

Simpson, an accountant, has been a member of the board since 2010 and has served as its president and vice president.

Slack joined the board in 2008 and is serving her fourth term. She started her career as a high school English teacher and then worked for 24 years as a teaching assistant at Lynnwood Elementary before retiring in 2008.

Maguire, who is a certified planner, works for the Capital District Regional Planning Commission and is a member of the Albany County Planning Board.

Maguire said he is currently circulating a petition as a first step in the process. He is talking with friends and neighbors, he said, and “really enjoying the conversations that we are having about our schools and our community.” He plans to make a final decision in the next couple of weeks.

The unpaid school-board posts carry three-year terms; nine at-large members serve on the board.

Library board openings

Two seats on the library board are up for election this May.

They are the ones now held by Daniel Centi — the current board president — and Peter Hubbard.

Both Centi and Hubbard have obtained packets, “indicating that they may run,” said Mark Curiale, the library’s public information officer.

In 2012, when Centi and Hubbard were first elected, no candidates had submitted petitions to be on the ballot — so the seats went to the top write-in candidates: Hubbard was first with 34 votes, and Centi was second with 33.

Hubbard ran unsuccessfully for the Guilderland Town Board in 2011 on the Republican line. A graduate of Guilderland High School and the University at Albany, he worked at the time of his election in the financial industry.

Centi is a lawyer specializing in business and estate litigation and said at the time of his election he was a frequent library user and that with the downturn in the economy it was important to support public institutions like the library. His wife, Rosemary Centi, served as Guilderland’s town clerk for 13 years and is now a member of the town board.

Others who have also picked up packets are Lily Bartels, Suzanne Cifarelli, Barry Nelson, Emily DiBartolomeo, and Nareen Rivas, Curiale said.

Each of the 11 seats on the library board of trustees carries a five-year term. Positions on the library board are, like those on the school board, unpaid.

Anyone interested in running should request a packet at either the school’s district offices or the library. The district office has packets for both boards, while the library has packets only for its board of trustees.

The packets contain petitions that must be submitted by April 17.

Interested candidates need to receive at least 42 signatures from town residents. This is equivalent, said Livingston, to 2 percent of last year’s total voters. The number of total voters last year, she said, was 2,077.

The vote for these two boards, as well as the school district budget vote, will be held at the district’s elementary schools on May 16.