Two Eugene School Board seats up for election
Two seats on the Eugene School Board will be wide open in the May election — a rarity in recent years when incumbents, many of them midterm appointees, have dominated the races.
Board Chairman Charles Martinez said this week that he won’t run for a second term, citing professional obligations and a desire to spend more time with his 9-year-old son. Martinez, who was appointed in 2004 and stood for election in 2005, is a research scientist with the Oregon Social Learning Center and vice provost for institutional equity and diversity at the University of Oregon.
Eric Forrest, an executive with the local Pepsi-Cola bottling company, had planned to resign a year ago, but decided to complete his term. He reiterated this week that he won’t seek a second term, also citing professional responsibilities. He was appointed in 2005 and ran for election a few months later.
Beth Gerot holds the third seat up for re-election, and she has said she plans to run again. A co-owner of Woodruff Nursery & Landscapes Inc., she has been on the board since 1999.
The candidate filing period is Feb. 9 through March 19.
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Holy Cow - you should do it!!!! I will help out on your campaign. I can take people bagels and stuff. I know how successful you find that strategy.
Oh - and your facebook group thinks you should do it too.
Do it! Do it! Do it!
Professional obligations?!? WTF! What happened to spending time with the old family?
Having paid attention to both a dysfunctional school board - in Lebanon - and a relatively well-functioning one - in Corvallis - I feel confident in saying that my experience has no relevance to the following statement:
DO IT.
Or, you know, it's a plea for sane people to run for school boards. Lord knows the little tykes of Lebanon have suffered in the past few years at the hands of a school board that doesn't understand kids, much less education or governance.
Plus, you know, you could sit on the management side of the table during bargaining....
You know my thoughts on you turning into a politician...via Facebook. But I think 4J would be lucky to have you. And our board being much like Lebanon's, I am very encouraging of intelligent, thoughtful change-agent type of people running. So go for it, homes.
You let us know where to send the maximum allowable contribution.
BTW - when would the election be?
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