Jane Puzkar, Mark Ponder and Ron Harmon were sworn in as the new Board of Education directors on April 18, and new officers were elected. Adam Bertrand became the new president, Randy Cook is now the vice president and Jane Puszkar has become the treasurer. With nearly half of the board’s composition changing, many new voices will be heard.

“How much they choose to be involved and participate, and how much time they choose to put into their board role is yet to be seen,” Board Director Randy Cook said. “But I’m confident they will do their due diligence on each item that we consider in our oversight role.”

The board has new goals moving forward to improve itself and the School Board’s communication with the district at large. After the struggles to communicate that came with the Prop S spending, the board now has new policies to improve communication going forward.

“From now on, plans will have to be approved before bids can go out,” Board Director Janet Stiglich explained. “There was not a whole lot of oversight for the board on this construction progress at first. There’s much more now. Now we have updates at every board meeting.”