Influential decision-making positions on school districts across the county will be up for grabs this upcoming November election.
Overseeing education at the county level, including its 23 school districts and one community college district, four seats on the County Board of Education will be considered by voters. Terms are ending for trustees Chelsea Bonini of Area 4, Jim Cannon of Area 5, Ted Lempert of Area 6 and Hugo Torres of Area 7.
Three trustee seats will be on the ballot for the San Mateo County Community College District, which includes Skyline College, Cañada College and the College of San Mateo. Terms are ending for trustees Lisa Patrides of Area 1, Wayne Lee of Area 3, and John Pimentel of Area 5.
The South San Francisco Union School District will have two seats on the ballot for trustee areas A and B. Current board President Daine Lujan and Trustee Patricia Murray’s terms will be ending.
Two seats are also up for grabs at the San Mateo Union High School District. Terms are ending for current board President Ligia Andrade Zúñiga of Area 5 and Trustee Greg Land of Area 2.
The Sequoia Union High School District has three seats open as trustees Carrie Du Bois, Rich Ginn and Shawneece Stevenson reach the end of their current terms. Representatives for trustee areas B, C and E will be on the ballot.
The first by-trustee area election for the Belmont-Redwood Shores School District will be held this fall. The newly defined areas 2 and 4 will seek representatives as terms will be ending for trustees Samuel Leinbach and Jim Howard.
The Burlingame School District will have three board seats up for election as terms come to an end for Florence Wong of Area 3, Sarah Ghulamhussain of Area 5, and Lisa Mudd of Area 2.
Two full-term board positions and one-short term board position will be up for grabs in the Millbrae School District. Terms expire this year for Maggie Musa, Claire Beltrami and Frank Barbaro.
The Redwood City School District will have three board seats up for election. Current terms are ending for Alisa MacAvoy of Area 1, current board President Janet Lawson of Area 3 and Mike Wells of Area 4.
In its first election cycle when trustees will be appointed by area rather than at large, the San Bruno Park School District will seek representatives for its areas 1 and 4 in November. Terms for Andriana Shea and Jennifer Blanco expire this year.
The San Carlos School District has two seats open on its board, which still elects at-large representatives. Terms for current trustees Tracy Park and Sarah Johnson Knahan will be ending.
Three board seats are up for grabs in the San Mateo-Foster City School District as terms come to an end for trustee Maggie Trinh of area 3, Shara Watkins of area 4, and Gene Kim of Area 5. Watkins recently left the board.
The candidate filing period opened July 15 and will close Aug. 9. Interested parties must submit the proper filing documents, including their nomination paper, declaration of candidacy and an option candidate statement, to the San Mateo County Registration and Elections Division during this time to be considered on the ballot. City candidates may obtain and file their documents at their respective city clerk offices. Go to smcacre.gov for more information.
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The SMUHSD Board of Trustees- Candidates- Land and Andrade Zuniga
-Its time to hold elected officials accountable-
Greg Land has filed his intent to run for his seat.
Andrade Zuniga has yet to file.
Its time for the media and the public to properly "vet" these individuals and get answers to the corruption that has transpired in these past years.
The Trustees are covering up the “loss” of $40 million from the Crestmoor real estate debacle, just one of the many acts of willful negligence of 2021. The damage continues
Single Member Districts link a Trustee to a defined voter base and its high school. The Trustee represents THESE taxpayers and is responsible to their requests.
Trustee Land has filed his paperwork to run for the SMUHSD Burlingame seat.
The SMUHSD Trustees have been lied to, misled, deceived, (we now add defrauded), and had critical information withheld from them by it administration, yet theBoard has taken NO action to investigate, correct, or hold liable those responsible.
The district continues to engage in a highly dysfunctional environment, wasting tax-dollars and continuing to engage in corrupt practices.
The $40 million real estate debacle of the sale of the Crestmoor properly was discovered by the SM Daily Journal in July 2021… and quickly covered up by the SMUHSD. The Trustees engaged in Brown Act violations by defrauding the pubic with false public agenda statements.
The former Crestmoor High School site was advertised and placed under contract with the DR Horton Development Company for $125 million in December 2020.
In late July 2021, upon inquiry by the San Bruno City Counsel, the DR Horton Development Company disclosed that the “contract with the SMUHSD had been cancelled,” yet there was no report to the public by the SMUHSD or its Trustees.
The SMUHSD Trustees continued to list the Crestmoor High School property as “under contract for sale with buyer DR Horton Development Company” over via two public agenda on August 5 and August 12, 2021. This was a fraudulent action.
On August 12, 2021, the SMUHSD Trustees granted Superintendent Kevin Skelly and two-year contract extension at $329,000 per year. It is believed that the Trustees knew nothing about the real estate debacle, or that Superintendent Skelly and Black were under investigation by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing’s Misconduct Commission at the time. The Trustees were “willfully ignorant” of these actions.
Trustee Andrade Zuniga “stood by her decision to approve the(Superintendent Skelly’s” contract AFTER listening to her colleagues with more time on the board and finding that any issues could be rectified, noting her belief in giving people an opportunity to grow.” (SM Daily Journal)
It is believed that Superintendent Skelly was given the option to retire and cancel his two-year contract extension only months later. In return, the SMUHSD Board did not investigate or inform the public of these violations of law and ethics, supported an attack upon the Whistleblowers, and engaged in a cover up of these actions.
On August 26, 2021, the SMUHSD announced the sale of the Crestmoor High School property to Summer Hill Homes for only $85 million. There was no mention of the cancellation of the prior contract or the $40 million “discount” on the sale of the property.
It is known that WHEN the Trustees became fully aware of these events, they engaged to continue the cover up. Trustee Griffin is a CPA and can read a real estate contract and a balance sheet. His own math would have shown a “loss” of $40 million in only three weeks.
The Trustees have engaged in violations of the Brown Act and refused to process California Public Record Act requests as they are aware they are in deep s%*t.
The SMUHSD Trustees were “leveraged” by the Skelly administration to defraud the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing’s (CTC) Misconduct Commission and the San Mateo County Counsel by creating and submitting false and misleading documents and statements as facts.
The Trustees also publicly attacked the CTC investigators while openly defended the extreme negligence and violations of the law by Superintendents Skelly and Black in the SM Daily Journal.
The legal role of the Trustees is to act as oversight of the administration, instead the ”Good Ole Boys” network protected and enabled gross violations of law and ethics and squandered millions of dollars.
https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/san-mateo-union-high-school-district-superintendent-kevin-skelly-s-contract-extended/article_166213b8-fcae-11eb-84bb-538cf9bc4594.html
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