Challenger enters PUSD board race
(Updated to reflect Linda Vanderveen filing her papers.)
By Steve Dreyer
The Nov. 6 Poway Unified School District race will have a least one challenger.
Kimberley Beatty
Sabre Springs resident Kimberley Beatty on Wednesday returned her nomination papers to run in the fall.
The terms of veteran board members Andy Patapow and Linda Vanderveen expire at the end of the year. Patapow submitted his completed nomination papers to the county Registrar of Voters Office on July 31. Vanderveen completed and submitted her paperwork on Wednesday.
Since both incumbents filed, the deadline for all candidates to submit their paperwork is 5 p.m. tomorrow (Friday).
Beatty will be making her second bid for a seat on the school board. She placed fourth in a field of seven candidates in 2010, collecting 14.2 percent of the votes cast. Incumbents Todd Gutschow and Penny Ranfle, along with newcomer Marc Davis, were elected then.
Beatty is a former DEA agent who serves on the executive board member of the Palomar PTA Council. She is the council’s legislation chair, a post she has held at Mt. Carmel High School, Black Mountain Middle School and Creekside Elementary School. In recent years she has written several opinion columns regarding education for the Pomerado Newspaper Group. She has been a school volunteer for 15 years. She and her husband, Ned, have four children.
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Good luck to you Kimberley. I wish you the best and hope for a landslide victory, but be careful when you enter the snakepit.
To the incumbents who just filed – please resign. You've "helped" Poway enough.
Good luck Kimberly. It's time to get those incumbents out. They've been on the board too long and no longer have kids in the school district. Their recent fiscal decisions are irresponsible.
Whether or not they have children currently in the school district shouldn't be criteria for being on the school board – being fiscally responsible is. Budget and financing decisions affect the community, which includes those without children in district schools. Sometimes it's all about the kids and sometimes it's all about protecting the community.
Let me assure you that I am fiscally responsible. I do my due diligence by thoroughly researching major financial decisions. I strive to be an informed consumer. Having been raised by Depression Era parents, I carry no debts except for my mortgage, and that will be paid off in 5 1/2 years. When entrusted with other people's money, I feel an even greater obligation and responsibility to ensure sound fiscal stewardship.
I think you will make an excellent board member. My comment was directed in response to Mom of 4 who made the comment the PUSD no longer had kids in the district. I am hopeful we can spur one more candidate to enter as a write in candidate. Papers can be pulled on September 10 to enter as a write in candidate.
Thank you! One of my goals has been and will be greater interaction with the community. I believe 70% of our school district community members do not have children in the PUSD, but they appear to share great pride and support in our schools. As a PTA leader, I've wanted to inform our community about what is going on in education, in our classrooms and at the state level.