Saturday, March 23, 2013
Six people are running for three seats on the Greendale School Board in the general election to be held April 2.
Voters in the Greendale School District will head to the polls April 2 to choose three people to serve on the Greendale School Board. The top three vote-getters will take seats on the board. Candidates are incumbents Tom Slota, Melanie Kuzmanovic and Vicki McCormick, and challengers Roger Dalkin, Kathleen Wied-Vincent and Katie Mevis. (Click on link for biographical information on each candidate). To provide residents with the most information on where they stand on the issues facing the village, Greendale Patch invited readers to submit questions that we posed to the candidates. Here, in their own words, are the candidates' answers to those questions as well as some posed by Patch. Katie Buszkiewicz-Mevis Greendale needs strong, …
Friday, March 1, 2013
Learn more about Melanie Kuzmanovic, one of three incumbents looking to retain a seat on the Greendale School Board in the April 2 election.
Name: Melanie Kuzmanovic Age: 49 Address: 5671 Frances Court Family: Married to Tom, children Danielle, Mara and Ryan (all GHS graduates excent Ryan, who is a current sophomore) Ocupation: Oak Creek High School guidance counselor for 23 years; other employment - sales rep for Gallo Wine, manager at Procter and Gamble Education: Preble High School in Green Bay, bachelor's degree in secondary education from University of Wisconsin-Madison, master's degree in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Lived in district: 22 years Related experience: Appointed to Greendale School Board in June 2012. Member of Greendale Athletic Booster Club and High School Principal Advisory Group for eight years each; co-created three …
Monday, June 4, 2012
Melanie Kuzmanovic, mother of three and 20-year resident, was voted as the newest member of the school board on Monday's board meeting.
A new face is sitting on the Greendale School Board. Melanie Kuzmanovic, mother of three, was voted in by the school board to replace Jim Schutte. Schutte resigned his position as board member in April because he moved outside of the district. Five people were in interviewed at Monday night’s open board meeting. The board asked questions about how to handle budgets, where the district could improve, technology, and communicating with parents. Kuzmanovic has been a school counselor for over 20 years. She works at Oak Creek High School. In her interview she said she understands the trials and tribulations of working with teachers, students, parents, district personnel and the difficulty of budgets. Before she was a counselor she was a …
Ron Burgundy
1:38 pm on Friday, March 29, 2013
They did get a 3% raise but that came after about a 10% cut so they are still down 7% from a year ago. Without quality teachers, we have no quality education. Instead of confrontation and quality teachers leaving a district like New Berlin, we have a relatively stable work force due to the fact that the board and the teachers for the most part have worked together. I don't know about you, but if … more ›