CSBA delegates vote on leaders, hear new president
Published: January 1, 2011
Martha Fluor, a former educator and a member of the governing boards of both the Newport-Mesa Unified School District and the Coastline Regional Occupational Program, encouraged all local school board members to advocate for California’s public schools with a statewide voice as she prepared for her term as president of CSBA.
“We need to come together as the largest group of elected officials and insist that our students become the number one priority in our state,” Fluor, who had served as a member of CSBA’s Delegate Assembly and the Region 15 representative on CSBA’s Board of Directors before being elected vice president in 2008, told the Delegate Assembly at its meeting in San Francisco last month.
A local school board member since 1991, Fluor has extensive experience in community service in Orange County and with CSBA and the National School Boards Association. She succeeds Frank Pugh, a longtime Santa Rosa City Schools board member in Region 3, who remains on CSBA’s Executive Committee as immediate past president.
Joining Fluor and Pugh on the Executive Committee is San Francisco Unified School District board member Jill Wynns, whom the Delegate Assembly chose as president-elect at its meeting prior to CSBA’s Annual Education Conference and Trade Show. Wynns, whose 18 years on the San Francisco Unified board make her its senior member, had served as a CSBA regional director from Region 5 for nine years and has been an active participant in many CSBA professional development workshops and trainings. She is also a past president of the Association of California Urban School Districts.
Also joining CSBA’s Executive Committee is Modesto City Schools District board member Cindy Marks, a member of the Modesto City Schools District board of trustees since 1997, who was elected the association’s vice president. Marks has served on CSBA’s Board of Directors since 2004. She was on the Delegate Assembly for four years and has also participated in many CSBA professional development workshops and trainings.
CSBA’s officers serve one-year terms.
Directors-at-large
The Delegate Assembly also re-elected Susan Heredia, of the Natomas Unified School District in Region 6, as director-at-large, Hispanic, and elected Palo Alto Unified School District board member Dana Tom from Region 20 as director-at-large, Asian/Pacific Islander.
Re-elected directors
The Delegate Assembly returned every incumbent in CSBA’s even-numbered regions to the Board of Directors, including Bill Enos, Siskiyou County Office of Education, Region 2; Steve Meagher, Red Bluff Union Elementary School District, Region 4; Priscilla Cox, Elk Grove Unified School District, Region 6; Susan Markarian, Pacific Union Elementary School District, Region 10; Linda Pavletich, Rio Bravo-Greeley Union Elementary School District, Region 12; Pat Kohlmeier, Redlands Unified School District, Region 16; Jesús Holguín, Moreno Valley Unified School District, Region 18; Josephine (Jo) Lucey, Cupertino Union School District, Region 20; Keith Giles, Lancaster Elementary School District, Region 22; Sharon Stys, South Whittier Elementary School District, Region 24. Elections for odd-numbered regions will be held in 2011.
Ray Peterson, a board member with the Sonoma County Office of Education, joins CSBA’s Board of Directors for a one-year term as president of the California County Boards of Education.
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