New CSBA officers and directors take office
Published: January 1, 2010
Frank Pugh, a veteran community college professor and longtime Santa Rosa City Schools board member in Region 3, sounded a call to action as he took office as CSBA’s president during the association’s Annual Education Conference and Trade Show in San Diego last month.
“As we begin a new year of challenges, I will be throwing a few hand grenades and starting a few fires,” Pugh said.
“This is what I need you to do: Be in the face of your elected officials every time they vote for a bad bill,” Pugh continued. “It’s time to hold people accountable. I will be counting on your help this coming year to move our education agenda forward.”
Pugh succeeds Paula S. Campbell, a trustee with the Nevada City School District in Region 4, who will remain active in CSBA as immediate past president. Campbell visited schools in each of CSBA’s 21 geographic regions during her term as president and reported to the Delegate Assembly that educators are finding innovative ways to help children reach their full potential despite the unprecedented budget reductions forced on California schools.
The delegates confirmed Martha Fluor as the association’s president-elect. Fluor, a trustee from Newport-Mesa Unified School District in Region 15 who’s been a school board member for 18 years.
Delegates also elected Mary W. Boger, now in her second four-year term on the Glendale Unified School District board in Region 23 and currently the board president, as CSBA’s vice president.
Directors-at-large
Delegates re-elected Emma Turner, director-at-large, Black, from the La Mesa-Spring Valley School District; D. Shelly Yarbrough, director-at-large, American Indian, from the Val Verde Unified School District; and Sara Wilkins, director-at-large, county, from the Madera County Office of Education.
New directors
Delegates in four regions elected new members to CSBA’s Board of Directors, including Cindi Clinton, Novato Unified School District in Region 3; Laura Rich, Menlo Park City Elementary School District in Region 5; Laura Canciamilla, Pittsburg Unified School District in Region 7; and Carol Skiljan, Encinitas Union Elementary School District in Region 17.
Five incumbent directors were re-elected from their respective regions, including Bob Berkowitz, Del Norte County Unified School District in Region 1; Chris Ungar, San Luis Coastal Unified School District in Region 9; John B. Walker, Ventura Unified School District in Region 11; Don Sedgwick, Saddleback Valley Unified School District in Region 15; and Robert Cruz, Charter Oak Unified School District in Region 23.
Cathie Bustos, from the Madera County Office of Education, joins CSBA’s Board of Directors in her capacity as president of the California County Boards of Education.