During an election year where contested school board races are the norm, voters in Komarek School District 94 and La Grange-Brookfield District 102 will also be called on to settle election battles.
In Komarek Dist. 94, which in recent years has not had contested races for the school board, five people are running for four 4-year terms.
Among those running is incumbent Chris Waas, the board vice president, who was elected to the board for his first term in 2007, and two incumbents appointed to the board since the last election. Al Sarro was named to the board back in 2009 while Patricia Martinson was appointed in June 2010. All three are residents of North Riverside.
Their two challengers are both Broadview residents, Diane Little and Jon Hoadley.
The race in Dist. 102, meanwhile, is wide open and could result in quite a shake-up. The district, undergoing some financial hard times and facing the prospect of a tax referendum in 2012, has four 4-year terms and one 2-year term up for grabs on April 5.
Four incumbents, including board President David May and board members Dawn Aubert, Donald Sands and Joyce Fitch, are running to retain their seats on the board.
LaGrange resident Peter Daniels, a member of the Dist. 102 financial advisory committee, who made an unsuccessful run for the school board in 2009, will try again in April.
He’ll be joined in an attempt to unseat an incumbent by La Grange resident Matthew Scotty, also a member of the district’s financial advisory committee and La Grange Park resident Kay Mautz.
There is just one candidate for the two-year term: incumbent board member Peter Tiemeyer, who is finishing a four-year term on the board. Sands was appointed to the board in July 2010 to replace Mike Guagenti, who was re-elected in 2009, then resigned mid-term. Sands is seeking a four-year term, while Tiemeyer is alone in filing to finish out Guagenti’s unexpired term.
– Bob Uphues