Candidates for Board seats Districts 4 and 7

There were two nominees each for board seats up for election this year: District 4 includes Steese East, Fox, Chena Hot Springs, Island Homes and a good part of the downtown core. Gary Newman, long time GVEA involved member-advocate and originator of this blog, posting as Common Sense Frank Eagle, incumbent board member, running after his first term District 7 includes the area down the Parks Hwy: Nenana, Healy, McKinley Park Long time incumbent Bill Nordmark Keith Walters, retired Usibelli superintendent While there are still pending interviews with the nominating committee during the next month and final selection by Feb. 13, it seems pretty likely that these will be the final nominees. Voting takes place by mail or on line starting in early May. The annual GVEA meeting is scheduled for April at Hering Auditorium (Lathrop High School). I will offer that I am running as I have been able to clear time to be able to serve. Being a responsible board member is quite demanding, equivalent to a 25% to 50% of a full time job. While I have attended around 200 board meetings in the past few decades and, as an active member-owner of GVEA, I have succeeded in a number of initiatives to increase transparency to the membership and encourage sensible decisions, there is more to be done that can't be done externally. I'll have more on my future-looking perspective and goals in other forums.