Jonathan Westfield
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Jonathan Westfield was a member of the Champaign Community Unit School District 4 Board of Education in Illinois. He was first elected to the board for a two-year term in the general election on April 7, 2015.[1] He did not seek another term in the general election on April 4, 2017.
Westfield discussed some of the issues facing the district and his 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 thought the district's new high school should be located if the plans to build it passed a referendum on April 7, 2015, and what they thought about the district's school resource officer program.
- See also: Issues in the election
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 Special Election, 2-year term, 2015 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan |  Jonathan Westfield |
100% | 10,705 | |
| Total Votes | 10,705 | |||
| 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.[2]
Westfield reported no contributions or expenditures to the Illinois State Board of Elections in this election.[3]
Endorsements
Westfield was endorsed by the Champaign Federation of Teachers.[4]
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
Footnotes
- ↑ Champaign County Clerk, "Consolidated General April 7, 2015: Unofficial Results," accessed April 9, 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
- ↑ Champaign Federation of Teachers Facebook, "Timeline post from March 18, 2015," accessed March 20, 2015
