Three More Enter Race for B-BP School Board

The field for this May's Bayport-Blue Point Board of Education trustee election is being to fill up. 

Rebecca Campbell, Bill Milligan and John Lynch announced Sunday night that they will "jointly run" for the three seats up for grabs. 

The announcement came via a post on Milligan's B-BP Action! website, which the U.S. Army veteran created last fall.

"If elected, they hope to leverage their collective professional experience in the disciplines of law, technology and finance to better serve the Bayport-Blue Point community and promote academic excellence, fiscal responsibility, transparency, accountability and open communication within our school district," the announcement reads.

Campbell is an attorney with a Manhattan law firm, a three-year member of the BBP Budget Advisory Committee, and a founding member and board member of the BBP Community Tennis Association.

Milligan is a solutions architect with 22 years of experience working both domestically and internationally for tech industry bellwethers such as Cisco Systems and Hewlett Packard.

Lynch is a trustee and member of the Finance Committee at and has served on the BBP Budget Advisory Committee for four years, including the last two years as chairman.

Blue Point resident Michael Miller, a teacher in the Mattituck-Cutchogue district, has already collected the necessary signatures to appear on the May 15 ballot. 

The challengers will be running for seats currently held by Andrea O’Neill, Jane Burgess and Katherine Heinlein. Miller and Lynch are running for O'Neill's seat, Campbell for Heinlein's and Milligan will seek the seat currently occupied by Burgess. 

None of the incumbents have announced yet if they will run for their seats. Nominating petitions to run for the board are due at administrative office front desk by 5 p.m. on April 12.