The Clark County School Board is looking to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of member Katie Williams. Since the seat is up for election next month, the appointment will only carry until the newly elected member is seated in January.
Ten people will be considered to fill the brief remainder of a term for a seat vacated last month by a Clark County School District board member.
The person selected to represent CCSD’s District B would be in place for the two months left in former board member Katie Williams’ term. Williams resigned in September after the Clark County district attorney’s office filed a court petition to have her seat declared vacant over residency questions.
Metro Police detectives determined that she had for months been living in Nebraska instead of North Las Vegas and recommended she face a misdemeanor charge of wrongful exercise of power.
She wasn’t arrested or charged. The six remaining members of the school board will meet Wednesday to publicly interview the replacement appointee candidates, select one and swear that person in, all on the same day.
District B’s full, four-year term is also up for election this fall, with the next full term to begin in January. District B covers the furthest north urban and rural corners of the county.
The applicants for the interim appointee slot are: Lindsey Dalley: A dentist by profession, Dalley is a lifelong Moapa Valley resident and heavily involved in civic life in the rural community northeast of Las Vegas. That includes deep knowledge of Moapa Valley’s four CCSD schools, which his children and grandchildren have attended.
He also serves on the district’s sex education selection committee and as a member of the Moapa Valley Water District board. He frequently advocates for the rural schools.
Lydia Dominguez: Dominguez is one of the two people on the District B ballot for the full term. She is an Air Force veteran, mother of CCSD students and a former member of the local chapter of the far-right “parental rights” group Moms for Liberty. (When she dropped her membership this summer, she said she still supported the national organization).
Dominguez serves on CCSD’s attendance and zoning advisory committee. Robert Garcia: Garcia is an organizer with the progressive organization Make the Road Nevada, which advocates for Latinos and working-class people of color.
In his application letter, he said public education was a human right.
Nakia Jackson-Hale: Jackson-Hale is an assistant dean at the UNLV School of Nursing and mother of three CCSD students. In her application letter, she described being active in causes to benefit women, children and the Black community.
Mary Kerwin: Kerw in served on the school board in Troy, Mich., for two terms before moving to Las Vegas in 2018. She is a consultant who provides training to elected officials. Kenneth Rezendes:
Rezendes is a retiree who formerly served on the district’s attendance and zoning advisory committee.
He has also been active in church and youth causes. Jose Solorio: Solorio, a political consultant, was a CCSD board member from 1993 to 1994 and his wife is a longtime teacher in the district. He is helping raise five young grandchildren who attend district schools.
Over the years he has also served the schools as a member of the attendance and zoning advisory committee, and as a soccer and cross country coach. Brenda Talley:
An artist and former director at the College of Southern Nevada Performing Arts Center, Talley is a Mount Charleston resident who serves on the town’s advisory board.
She has also served as a Nevada PTA president and on several CCSD committees and task forces.
She is a fourth-generation Las Vegan with grandchildren in CCSD schools. The district has schools named after her great-grandmother and great-uncle. Patrick Villa: Villa is a longtime CSN math professor.
In his application letter, he said he recognized the obstacles some students faced in transitioning from high school to college, and he is eager to contribute to efforts that will enhance their preparedness for higher education. Dane Watson: Watson served for six months this year as a nonvoting trustee appointed by the city of North Las Vegas.
He is a staffer for the Clark County Education Association teachers union, where he has worked since 1998 minus two years as the executive director of the Education Support Employees Association, which is CCSD’s union for staff who aren’t teachers, administrators or police.
Before his career in education labor unions, Watson was a classroom teacher.
The interviews begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday at CCSD’s Greer Education Center, 2832 E. Flamingo Road. hillary.davis@gmgvegas.com / 702-990-8949 / @HillaryLVSun