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Jose Arenas
2013 - Present
2029
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Jose Arenas is an at-large member of the Pendergast Elementary School District in Arizona. He assumed office in 2013. His current term ends on January 1, 2029.
Arenas won re-election for an at-large seat of the Pendergast Elementary School District in Arizona outright after the general election on November 5, 2024, was canceled.
Biography
An Avondale resident, Arenas graduated from North High School and earned a bachelor's degree in elementary education and a master's degree in education leadership from Arizona State University. He previously served as an at-large board member for the Tolleson Union High School District Governing Board from 2006 to 2010.[1]
Arenas worked as a teacher, assistant principal, and principal in the Isaac School District. Arenas joined the Phoenix Union High School District as the assistant superintendent of human resources in July 2009. Prior to this, he was a principal at Trevor Browne High School from 2009 to 2007 and an assistant principal at Cesar Chavez High School from 2000 to 2006. He was also the district's director of language acquisition for one year. Arenas and his spouse have two sons.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Pendergast Elementary School District, Arizona, elections (2024)
General election
The general election was canceled. Jose Arenas (Nonpartisan), Hilda Ortega-Rosales (Nonpartisan), and Monica Granado (Nonpartisan) won without appearing on the ballot.
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Arenas in this election.
2020
The general election was canceled. Incumbent Jete White, incumbent Hilda Ortega-Rosales, and incumbent Jose Arenas were elected without opposition to three at-large seats on the Pendergast Elementary School District Governing Board. Their names did not appear on the general election ballot.
2016
Three of the five seats on the Pendergast Elementary School District school board would have been up for at-large general election on November 8, 2016. The election was canceled due to lack of opposition. Incumbents Ruben Gutierrez, Jose Arenas, and Hilda Ortega-Rosales were automatically elected. Their names did not appear on the general election ballot.[2][3]
Results
Since this election was unopposed, it did not appear on the ballot, and the incumbents were automatically re-elected.
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Funding
School board candidates in Arizona were not required to file a campaign finance report if they did not raise or spend more than $500. If they planned to stay under this threshold, they were permitted to file an exemption statement. This rendered them exempt from all other campaign finance reporting, provided they did not exceed the $500 threshold. Otherwise, candidates were not required to file any report until they raised or spent more than the threshold limit. At that point, they had to file a Statement of Organization within five business days from when the threshold was reached. The pre-general campaign finance report was due November 4, 2016. All campaign finance filing was handled by the Arizona Secretary of State.[4]
2014
The Pendergast Governing Board had three at-large seats up for election on November 4, 2014. Two of the seats were regular four-year terms. Incumbents Martin J. Quezada and Susan Serin faced write-in challengers Consuelo Aduana Pambid-Stout and Edgar G. Hernandez-Galaviz in the race for the four-year terms.[5]
The third seat, a two-year term, was open because of a vacancy on the board that was filled by Jose Jesus Arenas in April 2013. Because the vacancy was for a seat with more than two years left on its unexpired term, the seat had to be filled by an elected member at this general election. Arenas ran unopposed to fulfill the remainder of this unexpired term. The Maricopa County Education Service Agency recommended that the election be cancelled and that Arenas be appointed to retain their seats on the governing board by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.[6] The board of supervisors elected to do so at their September 10, 2014, meeting.[7]
Results
The election for the two-year term was canceled as Arenas ran unopposed. He was appointed to the term by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors on September 10, 2014.[7]
Funding
Arenas reported no contributions or expenditures to the Maricopa County Recorder, but he did file a $500 threshold exemption statement with the office.[8]
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify any official endorsements for Arenas in the election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jose Arenas did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Jose Arenas did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pendergast Elementary School Distirct, "Pendergast Governing Board," accessed September 18, 2014
- ↑ Maricopa County Education Service Agency, "Current Governing Board Candidates," accessed August 11, 2016
- ↑ Elisabeth Moore, "Email conversation with Jose Conchas, Elections Specialist," October 18, 2016
- ↑ Arizona Campaign Finance Guide, "Questions & Answers," accessed October 6, 2016
- ↑ Maricopa County Education Service Agency, "Filed Candidate Listing," August 25, 2014
- ↑ Maricopa County Education Service Agency, "Recommended Cancellations," September 8, 2014
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, "FORMAL MEETING SUMMARY, Wednesday, September 10, 2014," accessed September 18, 2014
- ↑ Maricopa County Recorder, "Campaign Finance Search," accessed September 18, 2014
