Papillion-La Vista Public Schools elections (2014)

2014 Papillion-La Vista Public Schools Elections
General Election date:
November 4, 2014
Table of Contents
About the district Method of election Elections What was at stake? Key deadlines Additional elections External links
See also
Nebraska Papillion-La Vista Public Schools Sarpy County, Nebraska ballot measures Local ballot measures, Nebraska

Three seats on the Papillion-La Vista Public Schools Board of Education were up for general election on November 4, 2014.

Incumbents Connie S. Bowne and Patricia Conway-Boyd ran against challengers Matt Barrall, Lee Denker, and Rose Lippincott for the seats. Fellow board member Mike Jones did not file for re-election.

Incumbents Bowne and Conway-Boyd were re-elected, while Denker won his first term on the board.

About the district

See also: Papillion-La Vista Public Schools, Nebraska

Papillion-La Vista Public Schools is located in Sarpy County, Nebraska.

Papillion-La Vista Public Schools is located in Sarpy County, Nebraska. The county seat is Papillion. Sarpy County had a population of 169,331 residents, according to the United States Census Bureau in 2014. In the 2011-2012 school year, Papillion-La Vista Public Schools was the fourth-largest school district in Nebraska and served 10,338 students.

Demographics

In 2012, Sarpy County had a higher percentage of residents with a bachelor's degree compared to the state overall. The United States Census Bureau reported that 35.8 percent of residents aged 25 and older in Sarpy County had earned a bachelor's degree, compared with 28.1 percent for Nebraska. The median household income in Sarpy County was $69,269, above the state median of $51,381. The poverty rate in the county was 6.6 percent, compared to 12.4 percent for Nebraska as a whole.

Racial Demographics, 2013
Race	Sarpy County (%)	Nebraska (%)
White	89.8	89.7
Black or African American	4.4	4.8
American Indian and Alaska Native	0.6	1.3
Asian	2.3	2.1
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0.1	0.1
Two or more races	2.8	2.0
Hispanic or Latino	8.1	9.9

Party registration, Sarpy County, 2014
Party	Number of registered voters
Republican	46,975
Democratic	27,561
Nonpartisan	25,797
Libertarian	660
Total	100,993

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

As of the 2014 election, the Papillion-La Vista Board of Education consisted of six members elected at-large to four-year terms. There was no primary election and the general election was held on November 4, 2014. Three seats were up for election in 2014.

School board candidates had to file in the office of the election commissioner or county clerk during the candidate filing period, which ended on February 18, 2014, for incumbents and on March 3, 2014, for challengers. The deadline to withdraw was also on March 3, 2014. Write-in candidates had to file by October 24, 2014. To vote in the 2014 general election, voters had to register by October 17, 2014.

At-large

• Connie S. Bowne
  • Incumbent

• Patricia Conway-Boyd
  • Incumbent

• Matt Barrall
  • Graduate, UC Santa Barbara

• Lee Denker
  • Graduate, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • President/CEO, UNO Alumni Association

• Rose Lippincott

Note: Lippincott announced the week before the election that her family was moving out of the district and she would not be able to serve if elected. Her name, however, remained on the ballot.

District map

Election results

Papillion-La Vista Public Schools, At-large General Election, 4-year term, 2014

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Lee Denker	24.5%	7,915
	Nonpartisan	Patricia Conway-Boyd Incumbent	21.6%	6,973
	Nonpartisan	Connie S. Bowne Incumbent	20.7%	6,701
	Nonpartisan	Matt Barrall	17.9%	5,776
	Nonpartisan	Rose Lippincott	14.8%	4,785
	Nonpartisan	Write-in votes	0.6%	196
Total Votes				32,346
Source: Sarpy County Election Commission, "2014 General Election Results," accessed December 22, 2014

Endorsements

The Sarpy County Democratic Party endorsed Connie S. Bowne.

Rose Lippincott was endorsed by the Republican Liberty Caucus of Nebraska.

Campaign finance

Candidates were not required to file campaign finance reports until they received or expended $5,000 or more in a calendar year.

Past elections

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

2012 Papillion-La Vista Public Schools, At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2012 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Valerie L. Fisher Incumbent 27.7% 12,834      Nonpartisan Bill Gess Incumbent 23.6% 10,939      Nonpartisan Jeremy Kinsey 23.6% 10,927      Nonpartisan Ralph G. Healey Jr. 13.6% 6,289      Nonpartisan Eric Dernovish 10.9% 5,062      Nonpartisan Write-in votes 0.7% 309 Total Votes 46,360 Source: Sarpy County Elections Commission, "2012 General Election results," accessed September 6, 2014 2010 Papillion-La Vista Public Schools, At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2010 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Patricia Conway-Boyd Incumbent 20.1% 5,933      Nonpartisan Connie S. Bowne 17.6% 5,178      Nonpartisan Mike Jones 17.2% 5,081      Nonpartisan Lee Denker 17% 5,022      Nonpartisan Mike Weaver 16.1% 4,754      Nonpartisan Steven J. Schreiner 11.5% 3,385      Nonpartisan Write-in votes 0.5% 143 Total Votes 29,496 Source: Sarpy County Elections Commission, "2010 General Election results," accessed September 6, 2014

What was at stake?

There were three at-large seats on the school board up for election on November 4, 2014. Incumbents Connie S. Bowne and Patricia Conway-Boyd sought re-election to the board, while fellow incumbent Mike Jones did not file for re-election. Bowne and Conway-Boyd faced challengers Matt Barrall, Lee Denker, and Rose Lippincott for the three seats.

Issues in the district

Tax levy increase

A budget proposed by the Papillion-La Vista School Board on August 25, 2014, would have raised the tax levy 4.67 cents per $100 of assessed property value. School officials argued the hike was necessary due to increasing enrollment, construction projects and loss of tax revenue to the Learning Community of Douglas and Sarpy County. Under the common property tax levy system created in 2007, Papillion-La Vista School was estimated to lose nearly $1.5 million to the Learning Community for 2014-15.

Key deadlines

The following dates were key deadlines for the Papillion-La Vista Public Schools election in 2014:

Deadline	Event
December 2, 2013	First day for candidates to file nomination documents
February 18, 2014	Filing deadline for incumbents
March 3, 2014	Filing deadline for challengers
March 3, 2014	Last day for candidates to withdraw
September 2, 2014	Last day to file for office by petition
October 4, 2014	First day for in-person early voting at the Election Office
October 6, 2014	1st General Statement campaign finance report due
October 17, 2014	Last day to register to vote in the general election
October 24, 2014	Last day for write-in candidates to file nomination documents
October 27, 2014	2nd General Statement campaign finance report due
November 3, 2014	Last day for early voting in person at County Clerk or Election Commissioner office
November 4, 2014	General election day
December 1, 2014	Meeting of the Board of State Canvassers to certify general election results
January 13, 2015	Post General Statement campaign finance report due

Additional elections on the ballot

See also: Nebraska elections, 2014

This election shared the ballot with general elections for two U.S. House seats, a U.S. Senate seat, Nebraska state executive offices, Nebraska State Senate seats, and one statewide ballot measure. It also shared the ballot with county, municipal, and judicial elections.

See also

• Nebraska
• Papillion-La Vista Public Schools, Nebraska
• Nebraska school board elections, 2014
• List of school board elections in 2014
• School board elections, 2014
• Sarpy County, Nebraska ballot measures
• Local ballot measures, Nebraska

External links

Suggest a link

• Papillion-La Vista Public Schools
• Sarpy County Election Commission