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Minimal changes to Quincy School Board’s director boundaries
Quincy residents who live on M Street SW between Third and Seventh avenues will have a new representative on the Quincy School Board if a proposed re-districting plan is approved.
Also residents from the east side of First Avenue SE from N Street to J Street to Marginal Way will also have new representation on the board.
A plan for re-districting based on population growth determined by the 2010 Census was presented to the school board during its meeting on Tuesday, June 28. Sammamish Data Systems, of Bellevue, conducted the analysis.
Those minor changes are all that will be needed to insure the three districts determined by geography will have equal representation. Two other districts are at-large.
The first district, which is represented by Tricia Lubach would extend from the county line to the west to the southern border of QSD (near the summit of the Frenchmen Hills) to the eastern edged of QSD (about a half-mile west of Dodson Road). Interstate-90 and Highway 281, including the 281 spur, separates the first district from the second district, which is held by Myrna Blakely. The proposed changes on M Street SW would mean Lubach would add more residents in that neighborhood to her district.
Blakely’s second district includes the area between Highway 281 and the eastern edge of the school district to Sixth Avenue SW to Division Street E and then Central Avenue North to Baird Springs Road as the northern border. The proposed changes in the southeast portion of Quincy, would mean Blakely’s second district would lose residents in that area to the third district, represented by Mike Scharbach. Sharbach’s district includes the bulk of Quincy residents. The district then extends west on the north side of Highway 28 to the western border of the QSD, to the northern border of QSD and then to the eastern boarder of QSD to Baird Springs Road before coming south on Road Q NW.
JoAnn Garces and Lisa Mickelson fill the two at-large positions. Alex Ybarra was the only candidate to file for Mickelson’s seat and will be the new board member in November.
