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Rockwood appoints new board member By MARCIA GUCKES A Wildwood resident with three children in Rockwood schools is the newest member of the Rockwood school board. The board voted unanimously to choose 48-year-old Geoffrey S. Rigabar from six candidates interviewed at an open session Nov. 28. Rigabar replaces Matthew Fitzpatrick, who resigned from the board in October. Rigabar is appointed to serve until elections in April, but he told the board that he does plan to run for election to the board at that time. Rigabar and his wife, Barb, live in the Garden Valley subdivision. Their three children attend Babler Elementary, Rockwood Valley Middle School, and Lafayette High School. Rigabar since 2007 has been employed as a financial advisor with Edward Jones. His resume lists previous positions as an owner and officer of Ventus Capital Services, an accounts receivable firm; a senior executive at another accounts receivable company, Outsourcing Solutions Inc.; a manager at Ernst & Young; and three years of reserve duty plus eight years of active duty in the U.S. Army as an officer in the Special Operations Command serving in Central and South America. Rigabar’s earned a master’s degree in
The Rockwood School Board interviewed Geoffrey S. Rigabar (center) as one of six candidates to fill the position vacated by Matthew Fitzpatrick, who resigned in October. The board unanimously approved Rigabar to serve until the April elections. (West Newsmagazine photo)
business from Washington University in 1996, a bachelor’s degree from Bridgewater College in Virginia in 1986, and an associate’s degree from the Marion Military Institute in Alabama in 1983. During the interview, Rigabar was asked what he saw as the strengths and the challenges of the Rockwood School District. “I think the strengths are the good work that goes on every day between the students, parents, and teachers,” Rigabar said. He listed two challenges for the district. The first was a need for clear and proactive
communication with the public. “The perception of board actions in the past may not have been positioned favorably,” Rigabar said. “I’m not sure that both sides of the debate were clearly heard.” The second challenge listed by Rigabar was the district’s financial position. “To the extent that the strategic plan allows for a clear focus so that we can understand the trade-offs in where money will be spent and where resources will be allocated, those would be very much on the top of my mind,” Rigabar said.
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