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On Tuesday 3 February 2015, Silver Consolidated Schools will hold elections for two of the five seats on its governing board. On Wednesday 14 January, Civil Discourse host Jamie Newton held a roundtable discussion with the four candidates – Incumbent Trent Petty and challenger Frances Vasquez in District 3 and recently appointed incumbent Anthony Gutierrez and previously appointed challenger Michael McMillan in District 5.
Questions posed to the candidates included…
Election day is February 3, 2015. Early voting ended on Friday January 30th. Voters, please refer to the maps below for district boundaries and if you reside close to either side of these boundaries, call the office of the Grant County Clerk at 575.574.0042 and give them your residence address. They can then confirm whether you are in one of the contested districts and thus eligible to vote on Tuesday February 3rd. Click on the map images below to view or download them.
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Voters in the Cobre District, where School Board members are elected at-large, will vote for one candidate in each of the two races, and also on the Public School Capital Improvements (2 Mill) Tax Question. Voters in the Silver District, where School Board members represent a specific district within the School District, will vote for one candidate in the race of the district where the voter lives. The County Clerk’s office can tell you which district you live in.
Please visit this page again as School Board election day for both the Silver and Cobre school systems approaches – Tuesday 3 February 2015 – as we will post additional information on the elections, district boundaries, polling places and more as it becomes available.
We also encourage you to listen to the previous Civil Discourse presentation –
Silver & Cobre School Board Election Issues – that featured several local educators discussing some of these same contentious issues and describing their direct experiences.
Civil Discourse / Silver Consolidated Schools Candidate Roundtable will air on:
Or listen to the podcast via the following link at your convenience…
In this week’s edition of Earth Matters, the co-hosts of the program, Nathan Newcomer, Allyson Siwik and Donna Stevens provide a review of conservation efforts in 2014 and what we can look forward to moving into 2015. Among the issues discussed are the Gila River Diversion, 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act, Wild & Scenic designation for the Gila River, Travel Management, Hardrock Mining reforms, and USFS Planning Revision. Earth […]
