Cool for School Board | SoBe School District 100 2015 Candidate Filings

[berwynista]

Four current board members are not seeking re-election: President Joanne Zaworski, Vice President April Wozniak, Secretary Ann Marie Suter, and Board Member Debi B. Suchy.

According to the candidate filings on the Cook County Board of Election website http://www.cookcountyclerk.com/elections/candidatefiling/Pages/default.aspx, seven candidates are seeking to fill four vacated board seats:

1. Lisa Clemente
2. Elizabeth O. Jimenez
3. Timothy M. McNeilly
4. Jennifer Mitchell
5. Mark Titzer
6. James Woywod
7. Darlene K. Yoder

Looking forward to learning more about these candidates.

[Sandy]

Darlene and Mark would make great board members. Don't know about the others.

[Ted]

  The Cook County Clerk has drawn positions for ballot order.  The document says that Clemente, Mitchell, Titzer and Woywod are running as a slate:

Elizabeth Jimenez has position #1 and Darlene Yoder has position #2.  Here is the link:

http://www.cookcountyclerk.com/elections/2015elections/Documents/Ballot%20lottery%20results.pdf

[Ted]

Berwyn Park District board member Frank Amaro has filed an objection to the petition of Elizabeth Jimenez:

SD 54  SD 100, Board Member Elizabeth O. Jimenez (Non) Frank Amaro

  http://www.cookcountyclerk.com/elections/electoralboard/Pages/default.aspx

[Ted]

   I attended the hearing today for the objection of Frank Amaro against the candidacy of Elizabeth JImenez for the D100 school board. Amaro was represented by attorney Scott Erdman. There were two objections - the statement of candidacy form used did not have an address on it and the district named was "School District 100" rather than "South Berwyn School District 100". The hearing officer asked if each attorney wanted to hear the case immediately. Jimenez's attorney replied yes. Erdman replied no. Dates set were: Motion to Strike by 5 PM on Friday, January 9; Response to Motion to Strike by 5 PM on January 10; Reply to response to Motion to Strike by 5 PM on January 11; Actual hearing will be on Monday, January 12 at 10 AM.

[Ted]

  Correction to the above post.  It was the Statement of Economic Interest form that did not have the address, not the Statement of Candidacy:

   I attended the hearing today for the objection of Frank Amaro against the candidacy of Elizabeth JImenez for the D100 school board. Amaro was represented by attorney Scott Erdman. There were two objections - the statement of candidacy form   Statement of Economic Interest form used did not have an address on it and the district named was "School District 100" rather than "South Berwyn School District 100". The hearing officer asked if each attorney wanted to hear the case immediately. Jimenez's attorney replied yes. Erdman replied no. Dates set were: Motion to Strike by 5 PM on Friday, January 9; Response to Motion to Strike by 5 PM on January 10; Reply to response to Motion to Strike by 5 PM on January 11; Actual hearing will be on Monday, January 12 at 10 AM.

[Ted]

OBJECTION OVERRULED - The Frank Amaro objection to the candidacy of Elizabeth O. Jiménez has been overruled by the Cook County Board of Elections, based on the information on the Cook County Clerk website. Elizabeth Jimenez will be on the ballot in the D100 school board election in April.

Amaro had objected to the Jimenez candidacy based on two points - that she had put "School District 100" rather than "South Berwyn School District 100" on her Statement of Economic Interest. Second point was that Jimenez did not have an address on the Statement of Economic Interest. There was no line for an address on the SEI form on the Cook County Clerk website.

During the hearing, the hearing officer Terence Flynn had characterized Frank Amaro's attorney's arguments as "meta-physical"

Here is the line on the Cook County Clerk website:

SD 54 SD 100, Board Member Elizabeth O. Jimenez (Non) Frank Amaro Objection Overruled Terence Flynn / 69 W. Washington, Pedway Room

http://www.cookcountyclerk.com/elections/electoralboard/Pages/default.aspx

[chandasz]

Great to hear! What about the others? Thanks for being so on this- Ted

[buzz]

Ted, thanks for the info.