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Alameda County, Calif., Board Re-Elects Education Office Chief

Posted on: Thursday, 21 July 2005, 18:00 CDT

Jul. 21--The governing board of the Alameda County Office of Education unanimously has re-elected Pleasanton resident Yvonne Cerrato as its president.

The 5-0 decision was made during the board's Tuesday meeting, said county office spokeswoman Terri Hardesty. Board members Dennis Chaconas and Gay Plair Cobb were absent. When Cerrato was first elected as board president, the vote was 4-3, with Chaconas, Cobb and board member Eileen McDonald in the minority.

The county office's duties include providing teacher training, doing financial advising for local school districts, operating the school at Juvenile Hall and carrying out other special programs. The president is responsible for setting the board meeting agenda and running its public meetings

Traditionally the vice president is nominated and elected as president for the following year. But when McDonald nominated vice president Jacki Fox Ruby, she declined, saying she will be busy getting seniors to vote in the November special election, Hardesty said. Ruby then nominated Cerrato.

Cerrato, 41, was elected to the board in 2002 and is the first board president from the Tri-Valley. Board members are selected by district, and she was chosen in the first election after the county office redrew its districts. Her district now consists of Dublin, Pleasanton, Livermore, Sunol and parts of southeast Fremont. The district previously had included Castro Valley and parts of eastern Hayward.

Cerrato is a former teacher who worked in San Jose and in Pleasanton's Vintage Hills Elementary School.

The board also elected board member Fred Sims, who covers Union City and Hayward, as its vice president.

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Source: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, Calif.)

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