G. Moritz, Editor
Though we plan to do a full story on the Garretson School Board meeting in our next issue, here is a brief summary of the biggest item on the Board’s agenda on their July 18th meeting.
Tana Clark and Jodi Gloe were sworn in as new school board members, filling the seats of Rachel Hanisch and Jodi Linneweber.
Ryan Longhenry had filed a petition to renew his seat on the board, but after a change of mind decided he would withdraw from his board seat. But because he had filed a petition, and won his seat without contest, the board decided they would appoint someone to fill out his term and called for applications. Wyatt Compton and Andy Hulscher both applied to become board members and were present for the meeting.
During their executive session, both candidates were interviewed. When the board came out of executive session, they forgot to invite the press back into the meeting room after executive session was finished, and were packing up post adjournment when they realized that the Gazette editor was still in the hallway waiting to come back in. Newly re-elected board Chairman Shannon Nordstrom was apologetic about it, and gave the Gazette a quick recap.
“We voted to appoint Andy Hulscher as a new board member,” he said. “Ryan and Kari (Flanagan) chose to abstain from the vote. Jodi made the motion and I seconded it. She and I voted for it and Tana voted against it. We want to make it clear that we all support both of the candidates, but at the end of the day we have to make a choice and that’s the one we’ve made.”
See more in next week’s issue.
