ENDORSEMENT: Vote for Havercroft, Durbin, Knudtsen

Hoping to end the dysfunction of the NIC Board, I am not voting for Brent Regan’s “partisan” picks. Instead I am voting for whom I feel are the most suited candidates. Mary Havercroft seems by far the most suited having lived 44 years in Kootenai County with a sustained career in education at the Lakeland School District. She began in the classroom and ended in administration, serving as both a school Principal and Special Education Director. Now retired, she is highly familiar with school budgets, Board governance, and has served on both sides of many school accreditation reviews.

Not far behind is Rick Durbin, a lifelong Kootenai County resident and NIC graduate. Rick’s eldest son is also an NIC graduate while his middle son is a current NIC student. NIC is in his DNA! As a financial planner he understands fiscal responsibility and will be a strong asset for returning fiscal responsibility to NIC.

I am also voting for community embedded Eve Knudtsen. Having attended several NIC Board meetings over the past two years I have seen first hand the shrill outbursts from her non-collaborative, fiscally unrestrained, long and loud gavel-pounding opponent Greg McKenzie. You have to see it to believe it. As a Board member Eve will collaborate respectively and use her deep community and business involvement to enhance programs and opportunities at NIC.

Please ignore Regan and his fearful, often false or irrelevant, statements and analogies. Leave politics out of what is designated by the Kootenai County Election office as a “non-partisan” race. Don’t let the NIC dysfunction continue. Help elect Havercroft, Durbin and Knudston. Let’s do what is right for NIC and the community

ANDY BOGGS

Coeur d’Alene