Decatur District 1 voters interested in school-related issues, you’ll want to block off time on Sunday, October 9th to attend this event!  Deanne sends in all the pertinent info…

• When: Sunday, October 9^th, 1:30-3:30 (Doors open at 1:15pm)
• Where: The Church at Decatur Heights, 735 Sycamore Drive

Featuring:

• Candidate Peg Bumgardner http://electpegbumgardner.blogspot.com/
• Candidate Garrett Goebel http://garrettgoebel.org/index.html
• Moderator Geoff Koski, community voice and United States Government and Politics teacher

The Church at Decatur Heights and The Decatur Heights Neighborhood Association are pleased to host this exciting opportunity to hear from Peg Bumgardner and Garrett Goebel, candidates for the District 1 School Board seat on the November 8, 2011 ballot. Geoff Koski, highly regarded community voice and teacher of United States Government and Politics at Decatur High School, will lead what is sure to be an informative discussion on the future of our City of Decatur Schools. A Meet & Greet with light refreshments will follow. All interested citizens are invited to attend!

The race is on!

Yesterday, current Student Leadership Team chair Peg Bumgardner announced that she would run for the District 1 School Board seat coming up for reelection in the fall, currently held by John Ahmann.  Bumgardner posted a note announcing her candidacy and detailing her experience on the CSD parents message board yesterday…

Bumgardner, a resident of Decatur since 1996, is a Renfroe Middle School Leadership Team (SLT) parent member and current SLT Chair until October 2011 when her three-year term expires.

She looks forward to sharing her SLT experiences with the broader Decatur community, including why her bid for a Board of Education position is a natural step from her work on one of the city’s innovative school governance teams.

Shortly thereafter I received a note from friends of Garrett Goebel, stating that he would also run for the seat.  Here’s part of the announcement I received this morning…

Garrett has four children enrolled in City Schools of Decatur schools, ranging between kindergarten and ninth grade. He has long been known as an active and insightful voice in the CSD community. Garrett currently serves on the Fifth Avenue School Leadership Team. At Clairemont Elementary, he tutors and runs the chess club while maintaining his involvement with various committees at Decatur High School.

Garrett became known to many CSD families for his thoughtful discussion and detailed analyses of the district’s demographic data during the 2010 redistricting, and he came within 81 votes of winning a School Board seat in 2009.

I have reached about to the incumbent John Ahmann to see if he will be running for reelection.