Candidates for the four Edmonds School Board positions on 2015 ballots include two incumbents, one newcomer and former Board President Susan Phillips, who will seek to replace the woman who replaced her on the board.
After former Board President Phillips resigned her board position representing Director District 4 in 2014 for family reasons, the other board members chose April Nowak to replace her through 2015.
Nowak said in late March that she intended to run in November for the last two years of the four-year term that Phillips won in 2013, but Tuesday she said that her own family commitments will make continuing on the board impossible.
Now Phillips has filed for the last two years of the term.
The school district includes the cities of Edmonds, Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace and Brier, the town of Woodway, and nearby unincorporated areas of south Snohomish County.
Citizens throughout the school district vote for candidates from each of five director districts, but all board members must live in the director districts they represent.
Phillips seeks to replace Nowak in representing Director District 4 in the central part of the school district. Director District 4 includes parts of the city of Edmonds and most of the city of Lynnwood on both sides of Highway 99. It includes Edmonds-Woodway High School, College Place elementary and middle schools and Lynnwood Elementary School.
The two incumbents who have filed are Board members Gary Noble in Director District 3 and Diana White in Director District 5.
Noble represents Director District 3 in the northeast part of the school district, including the area around Lynnwood High School, Martha Lake Elementary School, Oak Heights Elementary School and Spruce Elementary School.
White represents Director District 5 in the northwest part of the school district, including the Lynndale and Meadowdale areas and the north part of the City of Edmonds.
The newcomer is business executive Bill Willcock, who seeks to replace Kory DeMun, who said in March that he wouldn’t seek re-election to his seat representing Director District 1 in the southwest corner of the school district. Director District 1 includes Woodway, the south part of the City of Edmonds and nearby unincorporated areas, and the southwest corner of Mountlake Terrace.
Positions with three or more candidates appear on the Aug. 4 primary ballot, with the top two vote getters in the primary advancing to the Nov. 3 general election. Positions with only one or two candidates appear only on the November ballot.
None of the positions had more than one candidate as of Wednesday afternoon.
Filing closes Friday at 4 p.m.
The only board position not on 2015 ballots is the one that Ann McMurray represents from Director District 2 in the southeast part of the school district, including most of Mountlake Terrace and all of Brier.
Evan Smith can be reached at schsmith@frontier.com.
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