Harrison School District No. 2 cancels Nov. 4 school board election; three candidates declared elected

Harrison School District No. 2’s Board of Education voted Sept. 2 to cancel the Nov. 4, 2025 school board election and declare three candidates elected by acclamation after officials said only three qualified candidates filed to fill three open seats.

The board moved to cancel the election under Colorado law — read aloud during the meeting — because there were not more candidates than offices to be filled. The resolution names Norma Arambide as the designated election official and identifies Michelle Wills Hill, Janice JJ Frazier and Emily Tamayo as elected by acclamation.

The action matters because state statute allows local boards to cancel an election when the number of qualified candidates equals the number of open seats, avoiding an unnecessary contest and reducing election administration steps. The board told staff to publish and post notices of the cancellation and to provide certificates of election to the declared winners before they take the oath of office.

Mister Williams read the resolution to the board, including the clause that “the 2025 regular school biennial election is canceled,” and the board then approved the resolution. The board authorized Norma Arambide, the designated election official named in the resolution, “to take all necessary and appropriate steps to cancel the election, including providing notice to the cancellation by publication and by posting notice at each polling location in the office of the designated election official and in the office of the county clerk and recorder.”

The resolution further directs the designated election official to notify the declared candidates of the cancellation, to provide them with certificates of election between election day and the next regular board meeting, and notes that each shall take the oath of office within 10 days of receiving their certificate. The resolution states the filing deadline for affidavits of intent to be a write-in candidate had passed at the close of business on Sept. 2, 2025.

The motion to approve the resolution and elect the candidates by acclamation was made on the record by Mister Williams and seconded by Miss Salazar; the board then voted in favor. The board recorded a unanimous affirmative vote and declared the motion carried.

Before taking the resolution, the board adopted the meeting agenda and then, after approving the resolution, moved quickly to adjourn. No other substantive agenda items or public-comment debates about the election were recorded in the Sept. 2 special meeting minutes.

The district will carry out the notice and certification steps laid out in the resolution and the newly elected board members will be eligible to participate in board meetings after taking the oath of office as specified in the resolution.