Olympia School Board Director, District 3

Employer / Organization

Olympia School District 111

Next Election

Aug 03, 2021

Filing Window

May 17, 2021 - May 21, 2021

Description

School District Directors establish a shared vision for the schools that they represent which reflects a consensus of the board, community and district staff. The school board has a wide variety of additional responsibilities, such as adopting annual budgets and issuing interim financial reports, adopting the school calendar, negotiating contracts with employees (including the hiring of superintendents), approving curriculum materials and closing or constructing schools.

Application Guidelines
The filing window for this position begins the Monday two weeks prior to Memorial Day and ends on the Friday of that week (5 days). Candidacy filing papers can be acquired at and are submitted to either the county elections office or the Secretary of State Office in Olympia. For non-partisan offices, if there is only two candidates filed for a position they will run against each other in the November election. If more than two candidates file for a non-partisan office, than the non-partisan office will go through the August primary and the top two vote getters will advance to the November election for the seat. For a partisan office, the candidates will run in the August primary even if only two people are participating. This may create scenarios where the same candidates participate for the same seat in the August primary and November election. For any further questions, the Thurston County Elections Office can be reached at (360) 786-5408 Or [email protected], and the Secretary of State Office can be reached at (360) 902-4151 or [email protected]. ***Washington is one of the only states with online filing for candidacy. It is preferred that candidates file online through the elections department of Thurston County, the link for online filing will be available the day the filing window opens. For more information regarding filing online, please see here: http://www.co.thurston.wa.us/auditor/elections/electns.htm

Submit application to:
Thurston County Auditor, 2000 Lakeridge Dr SW, Olympia, WA, 98502, US