Amador County – The Amador County Unified School District board of trustees will be discussing its makeup Jan. 26, with the idea of moving to a five-member board, from the current seven members.

Superintendent Dick Glock said the board will be taking that up the 26th, and some interesting events have led the board to already have five members, while in the process of applying to make the board smaller.

Glock said Trustee Janelle Redkey resigned to relocate out of Amador County, and then in the previous election, only one person applied for candidacy in Ione, that being Trustee Rose Oneto, for the November election.

Glock said “through strange set of events,” the school board has moved toward “what our waiver request was for this summer,” to drop to a five-member board, with members representing Supervisorial Districts.

Since 2001, the Amador County trustee areas have been along the former school districts in the county, but the district allows everybody in the county to vote on all of the trustees. With the formal change by the state, that will change, so that only people in trustee areas can vote for their trustees. Those will be along the five supervisorial districts.

The current Amador County Unified School District board of Trustees is also the county Office of Education Board of Directors. They are President Wally Upper, and Trustees Mary Walser, Pat Miller, Rose Oneto, and Lynette Lipp.

Lipp was appointed when only one candidate filed for November, leaving a vacancy.

Walser and Upper both are in terms that expire next November, and Miller, Lipp and Oneto all are in terms of office that run through November 2014.

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