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Amy Armstrong
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2027
Amy Armstrong is a member of the Champaign Community Unit School District 4 Board of Education in Illinois. She was first elected to the board in the general election on April 7, 2015.[1]
Armstrong discussed some of the issues facing the district and her plans for the future with the other eight candidates running in this election in a series of candidate forums in March 2015. The candidates shared why they decided to run for school board, where they think the district's new high school should be located if the plans to build it pass a referendum on April 7, 2015, and what they thought about the district's school resource officer program.
- See also: Issues in the election
Biography
Armstrong works as an accountant for Chambanamoms.com. She has also served on the board of directors for the Stephens Family YMCA since October 2008. Her work experience also includes accounting for Twin City BMW Motorcycles and working as a flight attendant for United Airlines.[2] She has four children, including a teenage son, a daughter with Down syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and a set of twins.[3]
Elections
2015
Five of the seven at-large seats on the Champaign Community Unit School District 4 Board of Education were up for general election on April 7, 2015. Four of the seats were four-year terms, and one seat was up for election to fill an unexpired two-year term.
Only two incumbents, Kerris Lee and Jamar Brown, ran for re-election. They faced six challengers, Amy Armstrong, Azark David Cobbs, Christopher James Kloeppel, Kathy Richards, Kathy Shannon and Alissia Young. Four newcomers, Armstrong, Kloeppel, Richards and Shannon, won the seats. Candidate Jonathan Westfield ran unopposed and won the unexpired two-year term.
The board of education consists of seven members elected at-large to four-year terms on a staggered basis every odd-numbered year. In 2013, three full, four-year term seats and two two-year term seats were up for election.
Results
| Champaign Community Unit School District 4, At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2015 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan |  Amy Armstrong |
19.3% | 8,315 | |
| Nonpartisan | Kathy Richards |
16.9% | 7,259 | |
| Nonpartisan | Kathy Shannon |
16.4% | 7,083 | |
| Nonpartisan | Christopher James Kloeppel |
13% | 5,579 | |
| Nonpartisan | Jamar Brown Incumbent | 12.1% | 5,214 | |
| Nonpartisan | Alissia Young | 9.6% | 4,145 | |
| Nonpartisan | Kerris Lee Incumbent | 9% | 3,855 | |
| Nonpartisan | Azark David Cobbs | 3.8% | 1,621 | |
| Total Votes | 43,071 | |||
| Source: Champaign County Clerk, "Consolidated General April 7, 2015: Official Results," accessed April 22, 2015 | ||||
Funding
School board candidates in Illinois are only required to file campaign finance reports if they accept contributions or make expenditures in excess of $5,000 in a 12-month period.[4]
Armstrong reported no contributions or expenditures to the Illinois State Board of Elections in this election.[5]
Endorsements
Armstrong was endorsed by the Champaign County Business Empowered PAC.[6]
Recent news
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See also
- Champaign Community Unit School District 4, Illinois
- Champaign Community Unit School District 4 elections (2015)
- Hot tub Gatorade, turnout in Peoria and the Wisconsin state budget... (April 8, 2015)
External links
- Champaign Community Unit School District 4
- Office website
- Personal website
- Twitter page
- LinkedIn page
Footnotes
- ↑ News-Gazette, "LIVE: Election Day April 7, 2015," April 7, 2015
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Amy Armstrong," accessed March 20, 2015
- ↑ Amy Armstrong Twitter page, "Amy Armstrong," accessed March 20, 2015
- ↑ Illinois State Board of Elections, "A Guide to Campaign Disclosure," accessed March 31, 2015
- ↑ Illinois State Board of Elections, "Candidate Disclosure Search," accessed April 3, 2015
- ↑ News-Gazette, "Business group backs Feinen," March 2, 2015
