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Heated council race heads to the wire BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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oters head to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots for the nine candidates vying for the four open seats on Gilbert Council. With such a large field of contenders in the Aug. 2 Primary, a face-off is likely in November. Gilbert relies on a complicated formula to determine if a candidate garnered a majority of the votes to avoid a run-off. A majority is calculated by dividing the
total number of legal votes cast by the number of seats to be filled and then dividing that number in half and rounding to the next highest whole number. No more than two candidates per seat without a majority can advance to the Nov. 8 General Election. On the ballot are incumbents Yung Koprowski and Scott September and challengers Chuck Bongiovanni, Bobbi Buchli, Mario Chicas, Michael Clark, Bus Obayomi, Bill Spence and Jim Torgeson. Garrett Glover is running as a write-in candidate. Both Koprowski and September were ap-
pointed to their seats in 2020. Koprowski, a civil engineer who owns her own firm, said mitigating the town’s growth and transportation congestion is a top priority and she wants to accelerate enhancements to pedestrian and bicycle networks to increase safety. She is mindful of the depleting water supply affecting Arizona and said she would not support new high-water use developments such as data centers. She also vows continued support for first
Parent says GPS Art campers needs transparency on book selections
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BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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parent last week asked the Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board for more transparency when it comes to the materials teachers use in the class-
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room. At issue was the district’s English Language Arts program from Savvas Learning Co. for grades 7-12, which comes with a supplemental reading list. “I want to address the issue of transparency – or rather some holes in the transparency – in GPS,” said Chad Thompson, a small-business owner who’s running for one of the three open GPS board seats in November. “There’s no place where parents can go and see exactly what materials their children’s teachers are
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It was a busy summer at Desert Hills High School in Gilbert as the school hosted a variety of activities, including a free art camp for any kid that ended last week. Among the teens who took advantage of the offering was TJ Skinner, who was busy drawing as part of a group effort at a work of art. (David Minton/GSN Staff Photographer)