School Board Chair Patrice Machavern Not Running for Reelection
by Nancy Wood
1/28/2010, page 1

Patrice Machavern is stepping down after nine years on the CCS School Board, the most recent year as Chair. She said, because of family issues, “I need to have more flexibility to be out of state.”
Her last-minute decision not to run left little time for other candidates to file for the office. The one candidate who submitted a petition by the Monday deadline is Kristin Wright, attorney and mother of three children at CCS. Kristin ran for the board last year against then Chair Clyde Baldwin, who won 435-379.
Machavern noted that she had “grown as a person” while on the board, which she joined in 2001. She has contributed to policy development, teacher negotiations, the website, budget and communications. She worked with ten different board members, seven administrators and two superintendents.
She said that collectively as a group with diverse experience and perspectives, they have achieved an “enhanced learning environment,” by adding Spanish to the foreign language program, expanding the enrichment program and introducing the hybrid full-day kindergarten model that offers half-day kindergarten for the first half of the year, and full-day during the second half.
Two candidates are running for the open seat on the CVU high school board: Richard Hess and Marilyn Richardson.