Joliet Public Schools District 86 elections (2015)

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2015 Joliet Public Schools District 86 Elections
General Election date:
April 7, 2015
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About the district Method of election Elections Key deadlines Additional elections External links
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Illinois Joliet Public Schools District 86 Will County, Illinois ballot measures Local ballot measures, Illinois

Four seats on the Joliet Public Schools District 86 Board of School Inspectors were up for general election on April 7, 2015. The four seats included two East Side seats, one West Side seat and one at-large seat.

Incumbents Deborah K. Ziech, Lorraine E. Guerrero, Tonya M. Roberts and Christine Kim were up for re-election. Roberts and Kim faced one challenger, Sammie Valadez, for the two East Side seats. Guerrero did not file to run for re-election, leaving two challengers, Quinn Adamowski and Frank Cabreda, to run for the West Side seat. Only Ziech filed to run for the at-large seat, leaving her to run unopposed.

Ziech won re-election to her at-large seat without opposition. Incumbents Roberts and Kim also retained their East Side seats. Adamowski won election to the West Side seat.

About the district

See also: Joliet Public Schools District 86, Illinois

Joliet Public Schools District 86 is located in Will County, Ill.

Joliet Public Schools District 86 is located in Will County in northeastern Illinois. The county seat of Will County is Joliet. Will County was home to 682,829 residents in 2013, according to the United States Census Bureau. During the 2011-2012 school year, Joliet Public Schools District 86 was the 23rd-largest school district by enrollment in Illinois and served 11,308 students.

Demographics

Will County outperformed the rest of Illinois in terms of higher education achievement in 2013. The United States Census Bureau found that 32.3 percent of Will County residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree compared to 31.4 percent for Illinois as a whole. The median household income for Will County was $76,147, while it was $56,797 for the entire state. The poverty rate in Will County was 8.0 percent compared to 14.1 percent statewide.

Racial Demographics, 2013
Race	Will County (%)	Illinois (%)
White	81.0	77.7
Black or African American	11.6	14.7
American Indian and Alaska Native	0.4	0.6
Asian	5.1	5.1
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0.1	0.1
Two or more races	1.7	1.8
Hispanic or Latino	16.3	16.5

Presidential Voting Pattern, Will County
Year	Democratic Vote	Green Party Vote	Libertarian Vote	Republican Vote	Other Vote
2012	141,736	1,165	2,912	127,350	822
2008	157,821	461	937	121,181	2,739

Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

Voter and candidate information

The Joliet Public Schools District 86 Board of School Inspectors consists of seven members elected by district to four-year terms on a staggered basis every odd-numbered year. Three members are elected from the East Side district, three members are elected from the West Side district, and one member is elected at-large. A general election was held on April 7, 2014. One full-term seat from the East Side and two seats from the West side were up for election in 2013. In 2015, two East Side seats, one West Side seat and one at-large seat were up for election.

To get on the ballot, school board candidates had to file a notarized statement of candidacy and notarized nominating petitions with the Will County Clerk's Office during the filing period. The filing period began December 15, 2014, and ended December 22, 2014. The nominating petitions had to include the signatures of 50 voters residing in the school district and could not be circulated until September 23, 2014.

To vote in this election, voters had to register with the Will County Clerk's Office by March 10, 2015. Early voting was available for registered voters starting March 23, 2015, and ending April 4, 2015.

East Side

• Christine Kim
  • Incumbent
• Tonya M. Roberts
  • Incumbent
  • Payroll support specialist, Paychex, Inc.
• Sammie Valadez

West Side

• Quinn Adamowski
  • Graduate, Joliet Junior College, Knox College, the University of St. Francis and Olivet Nazarene University
  • Associate principal, Lincoln School
• Frank Cabreda

At-large

• Deborah K. Ziech
  • Incumbent

Election results

East Side

Joliet Public Schools District 86, East Side General Election, 4-year term, 2015
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Tonya M. Roberts Incumbent	44.4%	1,370
	Nonpartisan	Christine Kim Incumbent	29.8%	918
	Nonpartisan	Sammie Valadez	25.8%	795
Total Votes				3,083
Source: Will County Clerk, "April 7 Consolidated Election," accessed April 22, 2015

West Side

Joliet Public Schools District 86, West Side General Election, 4-year term, 2015
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Quinn Adamowski	62.3%	3,573
	Nonpartisan	Frank Cabreda	37.7%	2,160
Total Votes				5,733
Source: Will County Clerk, "April 7 Consolidated Election," accessed April 22, 2015

At-large

Joliet Public Schools District 86, At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2015
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Deborah K. Ziech Incumbent	100%	7,128
Total Votes				7,128
Source: Will County Clerk, "April 7 Consolidated Election," accessed April 22, 2015

Endorsements

No candidate received an official endorsement for this election.

Campaign finance

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.

No contributions or expenditures were reported during the election, according to the Illinois State Board of Elections.

Past elections

Information about earlier elections can be found by clicking [show] at the right.

2013 East Side Joliet Public Schools District 86, East Side General Election, 4-year term, 2013 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Gwen Ulmer 60.5% 781      Nonpartisan Alicia Morales 39.5% 510 Total Votes 1,291 Source: Will County Clerk, "Election Results Archive," accessed March 13, 2015 Joliet Public Schools District 86, East Side Special Election, 2-year term, 2013 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Tonya M. Myers Incumbent 55.4% 1,016      Nonpartisan Christine Kim Incumbent 44.6% 817 Total Votes 1,833 Source: Will County Clerk, "Election Results Archive," accessed March 13, 2015 West Side Joliet Public Schools District 86, West Wide General Election, 4-year term, 2013 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Jeff Pritz (write-in candidate) Incumbent 51.1% 202      Nonpartisan Anthony B. Contos (write-in candidate) 48.9% 193 Total Votes 395 Source: Will County Clerk, "Election Results Archive," accessed March 13, 2015 2011 East Side Joliet Public Schools District 86, East Side General Election, 4-year term, 2011 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Tony Pena 100% 2,283 Total Votes 2,283 Source: Will County Clerk, "Election Results Archive," accessed March 13, 2015 West Side Joliet Public Schools District 86, West Side General Election, 4-year term, 2011 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Lorraine Guerrero 50.8% 3,335      Nonpartisan Quinn Adamowski 49.2% 3,229 Total Votes 6,564 Source: Will County Clerk, "Election Results Archive," accessed March 13, 2015 At-large Side Joliet Public Schools District 86, At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2011 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Deborah K. Ziech Incumbent 100% 7,978 Total Votes 7,978 Source: Will County Clerk, "Election Results Archive," accessed March 13, 2015

Key deadlines

The following dates were key deadlines for the Joliet Public Schools District 86 election in 2015:

Deadline	Event
September 23, 2014	First day to circulate petitions
December 15, 2014	First day to file nominating papers
December 22, 2014	Last day to file nominating papers
December 30, 2014	Last day to file objections to nominating petitions
January 15, 2015	First campaign finance report due
January 29, 2015	Last day to withdraw as a candidate
February 5, 2015	Last day to file as a write-in candidate
March 10, 2015	Last day to register to vote
March 23, 2015	First day early that voting is available
April 4, 2015	Last day early that voting is available
April 6, 2015	Pre-election campaign finance report due
April 7, 2015	General Election Day
July 15, 2015	Last campaign finance report due

Additional elections on the ballot

See also: Illinois elections, 2015

The Joliet Public Schools District 86 Board of Education election shared the ballot with city elections for mayor, alderman, commissioner and councilman as well as elections for village offices, park commissioners, library trustees, fire trustees and community college trustees.

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See also

Joliet Public Schools District 86	Illinois	School Boards
List of school districts in Illinois	Illinois school board elections, 2015 Public education in Illinois Local ballot measures, Illinois	School board elections, 2015 School board elections, 2014 School board election data analysis, 2015 School board election data analysis, 2014

External links

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• Joliet Public Schools District 86
• Will County Clerk