Four board seats on ballots for special election in May
With four seats up for grabs in the May 21 election for the Mt. Hood Community College District board, local voters will see two candidates running unopposed, including incumbent Paul Capell.
Current board members Dave Shields, Brian Freeman and Rod Monroe are not running for re-election this year. Capell looks to keep the seat he was appointed to in the fall.
Capell’s seat is Position 7, an at-large seat.
Shields’ seat, in Zone 1, is being contested between former MHCC music instructor Susie Jones and Sharon Barker.
Barker, now retired, used to work for the Kelso, Wash., library, the City of Portland in timekeeping management, and the Peace Corps.
Jones taught for 30 years, serving in the North Clackamas and David Douglas school districts and 12 years at MHCC.
Freeman’s Zone 2 seat is up for grabs between Ron Weisdorfer and James Zordich.
Weisdorfer is a retired Oregon City schoolteacher of 36 years who also served with the U.S. Army for 29 years.
Zordich is the retired emeritus curator of technological history at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.
The Zone 4 seat, currently held by Monroe, is the other unopposed race, with George “Sonny” Yellott the only name on the ballot. Yellott is currently an administrative assistant at Oregon Citizens Lobby, an associate member of the Pacific Northwest Paralegal Association and a volunteer committee person for his precinct committee. Yellott also ran for the State Representative seat for District 48 as a Republican. He is a former truck driver, casino employee and bartender.
According to the district candidate filing applications, Barker and Capell are the only candidates with prior governmental administrative experience.
The terms for Zone 1, 2 and 4 will run through June 30, 2017, while Capell’s Position 7 term (filling the remainder of a four-year term started by Ralph Yates, who resigned) ends two years earlier, on June 30, 2015.
Ballots will be mailed May 3 to registered voters.
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