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Racine Unified School District board elects officers at reorganization meeting
Summary
At a special reorganization meeting following board policy GC-2EB, the Racine Unified School District Board of Education elected Miss Barbian as president, Ellie Doxey as vice president, Brian O'Connell as treasurer and Theresa Vilar as clerk; ballots were cast by secret ballot and several offices required multiple rounds.
The Racine Unified School District Board of Education elected Miss Barbian president, Ellie Doxey vice president, Brian O'Connell treasurer and Theresa Vilar clerk during a special reorganization meeting that followed board policy GC-2EB governing officer elections.
Board policy GC-2EB requires the board to meet in April (typically the fourth Monday) to elect officers and directs that the superintendent serve as chair of the meeting until a president is elected. The results set the board’s leadership for the coming year.
The superintendent opened the meeting by reviewing the election procedures and reading the relevant portions of board policy GC-2EB, saying the board shall meet in April to elect officers and that nominations and voting are done by ballot. Nominations were taken separately for each office; members could nominate themselves or others and were instructed to vote for only one nominee per ballot. The superintendent also said ballots could be secret.
Board members nominated and cast ballots in succession. Miss Barbian was nominated and elected president (vote tally not specified in the transcript). Ellie Doxey was elected vice president after ballots produced five votes in her favor. Brian O'Connell won the treasurer contest with five votes. The clerk election required multiple ballots; the transcript records seven votes for Theresa Vilar on the deciding round, and she was declared elected.
After Miss Barbian was declared president, she said, “That was honestly unexpected. I thought you'd be getting tired of me, but thank you very much. I appreciate your trust.” The superintendent then turned the meeting chair to the newly elected president, as required by the election procedure.
The meeting closed with a motion to adjourn moved by Miss Wacker Cleveland and seconded by Mister Bellagio. A roll-call vote on adjournment recorded nine "yes" votes and the meeting was adjourned.
The transcript does not specify exact, individual roll-call votes on each officer election; tallies recorded in the meeting (five votes for Doxey, five votes for O'Connell, seven votes for Vilar) are noted above where they appear in the record.
