Austin School Board selects finalists to fill vacant seat
Published Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Four candidates will interview next month for the seventh seat on the Austin School Board.
The board’s Personnel Committee whittled down a field of nine applicants at a closed meeting Monday, selecting Aaron DeVries, Robin Krueger, Jeff Ollman and Lisa Peters as finalists for the seat.
DeVries and Ollman both ran unsuccessfully in the last school board election.
The seventh seat has been vacant since March when the board voted unanimously to oust Curt Rude, deciding a pending defamation suit he held against the district and a former superintendent posed a conflict of interest. The lawsuit was dismissed by a judge earlier this month.
Superintendent David Krenz said Monday that the finalists were selected in a closed meeting because a candidate will be appointed by the board rather than elected.
The final interviews will take place July 20 in a public meeting held in the city council chambers. The meeting time had not been scheduled by press time.
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Finalists named for school board seat
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| School board candidates What happened: An Austin Public Schools committee chose four finalists for its open school board seat. Why it matters: The seat has been open since March when the board removed board member Curt Rude because of concerns about a conflict of interest with his lawsuit against the district. What comes next: The four finalists for the position who will go before the full school board for interviews on July 20. The board will pick one of the finalists to served Rude's term, which ends Dec. 31, 2011. | ||
The committee chose Aaron DeVries, Robin Krueger, Jeff Ollman and Lisa Peters as its top four choices to fill the vacant seat on the board.
The four finalists will meet in front of the full Austin School Board on July 20. The board could choose Curt Rude's successor after that point. Rude was removed by the school board in March over concerns that Rude's lawsuit against the district created a conflict of interest.
The district initially held the release of the names of the four finalists for the position until today out of courtesy to the finalists, district officials said.
The district's Personnel Committee, which consists of Superintendent David Krenz and school board members Dick Lees, Don Fox and Jeff Kritzer, reviewed the applications during a closed meeting in Krenz's office Monday afternoon. The committee considered applications from nine people who submitted information prior to the deadline last week.
Lees said the selection process took about an hour and a half. He said all of the finalists are familiar with education, since some have children in the system or have served on district committees. All of them have college degrees except one candidate, Lees said.
"There was nothing easy about it. There were all serious, and they all wanted it," he said.
1 comment:
you'd be a great school board member Lisa. With 5 kids in the school district, I know you'll put our kids first. Our school board needs balance and I know that you'd do a great job working with all of the members.
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