Run for Local School Board in Alhambra Elementary District, AZ

School Board Members establish a shared vision for the Schools that they represent which reflects a consensus of the board, community and district staff. The School board has a wide variety of additional responsibilities, such as adopting annual budgets and issuing interim financial reports, adopting the School calendar, negotiating contracts with employees (including the hiring of superintendents), approving curriculum materials and closing or constructing Schools.

A person who is a registered voter of this state and has been a resident of the school district for at least one year immediately preceding the day of election is eligible for election to the office of governing board member. No employee of a school district, including a person who directly provides certified or classified services to the school district as an employee of a third-party contractor, or the spouse of such an employee may hold membership on a governing board of a school district by which the employee is employed. A member of one governing board is ineligible to be a candidate for nomination or election to or serve simultaneously as a member of any other governing board, except that a member of a governing board may be a candidate for nomination or election for any other governing board if the member is serving in the last year of a term of office. A member of a governing board shall resign the member's seat on the governing board before becoming a candidate for nomination or election to the governing board of any other school district, unless the member of the governing board is serving in the last year of a term of office. (ARS 15-421)