School Board Candidate Makes Campaign Official
Posted on: Friday, 29 July 2005, 00:00 CDT
Jul. 28--Palo Alto voters can start thinking about whom they want on the school board next year. The first official candidate, Barbara Mitchell, filed to run Wednesday.
She'll be joined next month by Dana Tom, who said he'd make himself official as soon as he returns from a family vacation.
Two other possible candidates -- Barb Spreng and Claude Ezran -- have yet to make their final declarations as candidates.
The district will have two open seats in the November election. Board President John Barton is running for a city council seat, and Cathy Kroymann's four-year term expires.
Mitchell, 46, has already had a run-through as a campaigner. She was a last-minute write-in candidate in 2001 and registered almost 3,000 votes.
The Palo Alto High School graduate met her husband at a 10-year reunion and became a schools volunteer when her first child entered kindergarten. Now she has two children in college and two at Palo Alto High School and has served as a PTA president at elementary, middle and high schools in the district.
Tom, 43, and his family moved to Palo Alto seven years ago, attracted by the good schools. He reduced his work hours as a corporate management trainer so he could spend more time volunteering at the schools his two young sons attend.
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