Elaine Gauck

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Elaine Gauck

Prior offices

Northwest Local School District At-large

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Education

High school

Colerain High School

Personal

Profession

Manager, secretary, treasurer

Elaine Gauk was a candidate for at-large representative on the Northwest Local School District Board of Education in Ohio. The general election was held on November 3, 2015. Elaine Gauck lost the general election on November 3, 2015.

She was previously an at-large seat holder on the Northwest Local School Board. She lost re-election on November 5, 2013 against four challengers and two fellow incumbents.

Biography

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Gauck is a Colerain High School graduate. She is a manager, secretary and treasurer, operating two businesses in Colerain Township.

Elections

2015

See also: Northwest Local School District elections (2015)

Opposition

Two of the five seats on the Northwest Local School District Board of Education were up for election on November 3, 2015. All members represent the district at-large.

Incumbent Jim Detzel won re-election to his seat on the board. Bob Engel defeated incumbent Dan Unger for the other seat on the ballot. Other candidates that ran for the two seats included Dexter Carpenter, Elaine Gauck, Ryan Manring and Bev Spellmeyer.

Results

Northwest Local School District, At-Large, General Election, 2015
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Bob Engel	24.3%	8,337
Jim Detzel Incumbent	21.5%	7,386
Dan Unger Incumbent	20.9%	7,186
Elaine Gauck	10.2%	3,509
Dexter Carpenter	8.4%	2,891
Bev Spellmeyer	8.2%	2,800
Ryan Manring	6.4%	2,205
Total Votes		34,314
Source: Hamilton County, Ohio, "Cumulative Report-Official", accessed November 27, 2015

Funding

Gauck reported no contributions or expenditures to the Hamilton County Board of Elections as of October 27, 2015. Candidates who spent or received less than $1,000 were not required to file a report.

Endorsements

Gauck received no official endorsements for her campaign during the election.

2013

See also: Northwest Local School District elections (2013)

Results

Northwest Local School District, At-large General Election, 4-year term, 2013
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Pamela L. Detzel Incumbent	19.4%	4,995
	Nonpartisan	Michael Harlow	17%	4,388
	Nonpartisan	Christopher J. Heather	15.9%	4,107
	Nonpartisan	David Denny Incumbent	15.4%	3,960
	Nonpartisan	Bruce Gehring	14.5%	3,727
	Nonpartisan	Elaine Gauck Incumbent	10.6%	2,737
	Nonpartisan	Dexter Carpenter	7.3%	1,873
Total Votes				25,787
Source: Hamilton County of Ohio, "Election Summary Report for General Election in Hamilton County, Ohio," accessed December 16, 2013

Endorsements

Gauck was not endorsed in this campaign.

Funding

Gauck reported no contributions or expenditures to the Ohio Secretary of State.

2009

Northwest Local School District, At-large, 4-year term, 2009
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Pamela L. Detzel	27.6%	11,719
	Nonpartisan	David Denny	21.8%	9,240
	Nonpartisan	Elaine Gauck	21.5%	9,099
	Nonpartisan	Fred Hunt	19.4%	8,214
	Nonpartisan	Dexter Harold Carpenter	9.8%	4,140
Total Votes				42,412
Source: Board Member; Northwest Local School District Voter Information, "Candidates," accessed October 30, 2013

Campaign themes

2013

In a 2013 interview with the Courier Post, Gauck stated the following when asked about her campaign priorities:

How can the district meet its budget challenges? Gauck says finding new resources to get money without raising taxes is a big challenge for the district. She says the state legislature is not doing its job when it comes to the funding of public education and needs pressure to do so. “If it was properly funded, we wouldn’t need to keep asking for levies,” she said. The district has a five-year emergency levy that raises about $7 million annually. If elected, will you support its renewal? Yes, if needed. She says she wouldn’t support it just because it’s up for renewal. “It would have to be proven to me that it was needed,” she said. “I was dead-set against levies before, but when you look at the choices to cut, you see the kids will suffer.” What do you think are the biggest challenges facing the district in the next four years? She says retaining teachers and having a board that continues to work together are both important, she says, and keeping good teachers will be challenging because Northwest’s pay scale is comparatively low. “The way the economy is now, I am grateful that we haven’t lost more than we already have,” she said.

Recent news

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See also

• Northwest Local School District
• Northwest Local School District elections (2013)
• Incumbency no guarantee of success in Nov. 3 school board elections (November 6, 2015)
• What happened in Nov.'s top board elections? (November 4, 2015)

External links

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• Northwest Local School District