Here’s who’s running for school board seats in Linn, Johnson counties

Thursday was the deadline for candidates for school board in Iowa to file their affidavits of candidacy and nomination petitions.

School boards establish the vision and goals for public schools in their district and set standards for the performance of schools and superintendents.

School boards — whose members are unpaid in Iowa — are responsible for making final financial and policy decisions for their districts.

Election Day is Nov. 4, and county auditor’s offices also are accepting absentee ballot requests through 5 p.m. Oct. 20. Absentee ballots must be turned in by 8 p.m. Nov. 4 to be counted.

The following is the list of school board candidates for districts in Linn and Johnson counties.

Terms are four years unless otherwise noted.

Incumbents are noted with (i).

Linn County

Cedar Rapids Community School District

District 2 (one seat)

Mimi Daoud

Scott Drzycimski

David Chung

District 3 (one seat)

Jennifer Borcherding (i)

Ashley Burns

Director at-large (one seat)

Marcy Roundtree (i)

Laura Zimmerman

College Community School District

Director at-large (one seat)

Tobey Harrison (i)

District 2 (one seat)

Haley Dohrmann

Kellan Petz

District 5 (one seat)

Todd Hahlen (i)

Linn-Mar Community School District

(three seats)

Michael Bowling

Evan Langston

Laura Thomas (i)

Midhat Mansoor (i)

Marion Independent School District

(three seats)

Bryan Fentress (i)

Shari Irene Funck (i)

Angelica Vannatta

Johnson County

Iowa City Community School District

(three seats)

Jayne Finch (i)

Jennifer Horn-Frasier

Ruthina Malone (i)

David Noerper

Dan Stevenson

Clear Creek Amana Community School District

Director at-large (one seat)

Casey Cooney

Rick Hergert

District 2 (one seat)

No candidates filed

District 3 (one seat for a two-year term to fill vacancy)

Nicholas Pfeiffer (i)

District 4 (one seat)

No candidates filed

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