{"id":1314033,"date":"2019-08-27T17:12:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T23:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=986686"},"modified":"2019-08-27T17:12:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T23:12:01","slug":"one-roaring-fork-school-board-incumbent-to-run-again-other-bows-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/one-roaring-fork-school-board-incumbent-to-run-again-other-bows-out\/","title":{"rendered":"One Roaring Fork school board incumbent to run again, other bows out"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shane Larson intends to run for reelection to the Roaring Fork School District Board of Education, while the other incumbent board member whose seat is up, Mary Elizabeth Geiger, will not.<\/p>\n

Friday is the deadline for candidates to file valid nominating petitions with the school district to run for any of the three seats that are up for election this fall.<\/p>\n

Those seats include Larson\u2019s District D (downtown Glenwood Springs and West Glenwood areas), for which other prospective candidates have taken out but not yet submitted petitions, according to school district officials.<\/p>\n

Two seats on the five-member school board look to be wide open in the Nov. 5 election \u2014 District B (west of Highways 82 and 133, including parts of Carbondale and the Aspen Glen, Ironbridge and Westbank neighborhoods), and District C (south Glenwood, Spring Valley and the western portion of Missouri Heights).<\/p>\n

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Mary Elizabeth Geiger<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Geiger, who currently represents District C, said she will not seek reelection after six years on the board. Instead, she is joining the newly reformulated Roaring Fork School Foundation nonprofit board.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still want to be involved with the district, and I loved being on the board and being part of what we\u2019ve accomplished,\u201d Geiger, a Glenwood Springs attorney, said. \u201cThe schools have really blossomed over last five years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will continue serving the community, just in a different role,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The District B seat was left open after former school board member Matt Hamilton stepped down in June when he moved from the area. The board will continue with four members until the election, after no candidates applied for what would have been a short-term appointment to the seat.<\/p>\n

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Shane Larson<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Larson said he\u2019s ready to seek a full four-year term after three-and-a-half years on the board since being appointed to fill a vacant seat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI enjoy the work, and my background is in education,\u201d Larson said.<\/p>\n

Larson works as vice president of student affairs at Colorado Mountain College and was a middle school math teacher before transitioning into higher education.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been in the education arena, and it\u2019s been good to connect back to K-12s. I hope to continue to provide something to the board,\u201d Larson said.<\/p>\n

Larson said the district took some steps forward last year to address teacher pay in the district, but more needs to be done on the state level. It will require collaboration with other area school districts to have any impact, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to combine forces with other districts to take that message to the state Legislature,\u201d Larson said. \u201cWe need to do better at that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larson, who has three children in district schools in Glenwood Springs, said he would also like to see the district continue to improve student performance when it comes to meeting state benchmarks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been moving in the right direction, but we want to keep that momentum going,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As of Tuesday, Larson\u2019s was the only completed candidate petition to have been returned, but more than a dozen had been taken out between the three seats combined, said Angie Davlyn, board election official for the district.<\/p>\n

Candidate petitions are due by 3:30 p.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n

Prospective candidates must file a written notice of intent to be a candidate and a nomination petition signed by at least 50 eligible electors who are registered to vote in the Nov. 5 election.<\/p>\n

To obtain a petition, contact Davlyn at adavlyn@rfschools.com<\/a> or 970-384-6001. Spanish speakers can contact Olga Villasenor at ovillasenor@rfschools.com<\/a> or 970.384.6004.<\/p>\n

jstroud@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shane Larson intends to run for reelection to the Roaring Fork School District Board of Education, while the other incumbent board member whose seat is up, Mary Elizabeth Geiger, will not. Friday is the deadline for candidates to file valid nominating petitions with the school district to run for any of the three seats that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1314033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-07 04:22:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}