Twelve Apply for Open Seat on the Castro Valley School Board

School Board President Jo A. S. Loss announced today that the Board of Education received applications from twelve (12) individuals seeking the Provisional Appointment to the board to fill the open seat created by the resignation of Trustee George Granger, which will be effective August 16th.  The twelve applicants for the open seat are:

• Terry Lee Bailey

• Suresh Chand Gupta

• Diana Marie Levy

• William Ray Bradford

• Joanna Applegarth Hancock

• Ronald K. Phillips

• Mary Pippitt Cervantes

• Gary C. Howard

• David Russell Standish

• Patrick Devine

• Frankie Jingman Lee

• Jennifer Wyllie-Pletcher

The Board of Education will interview all twelve individuals in an open, public board meeting on August 6th at 4:00 p.m. in the District Board Room (4400 Alma Avenue).  The public is invited to attend the meeting.  The board packet with the applicants’ statements will be available after 4:00 p.m. on Friday, August 2nd and will be posted on the district webpage at

http://www.cv.k12.ca.us/board-of-education/agendas-and-board-materials.

After interviewing all of the individuals for the open seat, the board members will discuss and vote on the Provisional Appointment to the Board of Education.  Depending on the discussion and vote(s), the board will narrow the pool of applicants and may hold another board meeting to conduct further interviews. The second public meeting is tentatively scheduled for August 14th in the District Board Room.  The time of the meeting will be determined once the board decides the number of individuals involved in a second interview.

For further information, contact Jo A. S. Loss, President, Castro Valley Board of Education: 510-881-3109