Armina Gharpetian
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Armina Gharpetian was a member of the Glendale Unified School District school board Trustee in California, representing Area C. Gharpetian assumed office in 2013. Gharpetian left office in 2022.
Gharpetian ran for re-election to the Glendale Unified School District school board Trustee to represent Area C in California. Gharpetian won in the general election on April 4, 2017.
Gharpetian ran for re-election in 2022 and was defeated in the June 7 election by Kathleen Cross.
Elections
2017
Three seats on the Glendale Unified School District Board of Education were up for by-district general election on April 4, 2017. In his bid for re-election in Trustee Area B, incumbent Greg Krikorian defeated challenger Vardan Stepanyan. In Trustee Area C, incumbent Armina Gharpetian ran unopposed and won another term on the board. The race for the open Trustee Area D seat featured candidates Joal Ryan and Shant Sahakian. Sahakian was elected to the seat.[1][2]
Results
| Glendale Unified School District, Trustee Area C General Election, 4-year term, 2017 |
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|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
 Armina Gharpetian Incumbent (unopposed) |
100.00% | 3,165 |
| Total Votes | 3,165 | |
| Source: Glendale City Clerk, "Glendale Municipal Election 2017," accessed May 1, 2017 | ||
Funding
Gharpetian began the race with an existing account balance of $2,330.51 from her previous campaign. She reported $5,050.00 in contributions and $875.00 in expenditures to Glendale City Clerk, which left her campaign with $6,505.51 on hand in the election.[3]
Endorsements
Gharpetian was endorsed by the Glendale Teachers Union, the Armenian Council of America-Political Action Committee (ACA-PAC), and the Armenian National Committee of America, Glendale Chapter (ANCA-Glendale).[4][5][6]
2013
| Glendale Unified School District, At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2013 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Greg Krikorian Incumbent |
22.8% | 12,850 | |
| Nonpartisan | Christine L. Walters Incumbent |
16.9% | 9,504 | |
| Nonpartisan | Armina Gharpetian |
16.3% | 9,195 | |
| Nonpartisan | Jennifer Freemon | 15.8% | 8,892 | |
| Nonpartisan | Joylene K. Wagner Incumbent | 14.9% | 8,379 | |
| Nonpartisan | Daniel C. Cabrera | 11.1% | 6,243 | |
| Nonpartisan | Ali Sadri | 2.3% | 1,277 | |
| Total Votes | 56,340 | |||
| Source: City of Glendale, "General Municipal Election Results — 2013," accessed March 23, 2015 | ||||
What was at stake?
2017
Election trends
- See also: School boards in session: 2015 in brief
The Glendale Unified School District's 2017 election had the first unopposed board of education candidate in four election cycles. The district's 2011, 2013, and 2015 elections had a minimum of 2.33 candidates run per seat on the ballot, while the 2017 election attracted an average of 1.67 candidates per seat.
The 2017 election was guaranteed to add one newcomer to the board due to an open seat. There was the possibility a second newcomer would be added as one incumbent faced a challenger, but the incumbent was re-elected. Newcomers were added to the board in 2013 and 2015. The newcomer elected in 2013 defeated an incumbent to win the seat, but the newcomer elected in 2015 won an open seat. No newcomers were elected to the board in 2011.
| School board election trends | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Candidates per seat | Unopposed seats | Incumbents running for re-election | Incumbent success rate | Seats won by newcomers | |
| Glendale Unified School District | ||||||
| 2017 | 1.67 | 33.33% | 66.67% | 100.00% | 33.33% | |
| 2015 | 2.50 | 0.00% | 50.00% | 100.00% | 50.00% | |
| 2013 | 2.33 | 0.00% | 100.00% | 66.67% | 33.33% | |
| 2011 | 4.00 | 0.00% | 100.00% | 100.00% | 0.00% | |
| California | ||||||
| 2015 | 2.01 | 22.95% | 73.77% | 81.11% | 39.34% | |
| United States | ||||||
| 2015 | 1.72 | 35.95% | 70.37% | 82.66% | 40.81% | |
Issues in the election
Candidate forum
All five candidates in this race participated in a candidate forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of Glendale/Burbank on March 2, 2017. A video of the forum can be found below.
Issues in the district
District discusses ways to reduce spending
The Glendale Unified School District could spend of all of its General Fund reserves by the 2019-2020 fiscal year, if a district trend of spending more money than it brought in each year continued, district officials announced at a school board meeting in January 2017.[7]
"Basically, the district will not be able to meet its financial obligations if this negative amount in [2019-2020] is not rectified," said Karineh Savarani, the district's director of financial services. With $34.8 million in its General Fund as of January 2017, the district could see a negative balance of $12.8 million in three fiscal years, according to Savarani.[7]
To address the negative trend, district officials looked at a number of ways to cut costs and increase revenue. Cheryl Plotkin, the district's interim chief business and financial officer, suggested trying to increase students' average daily attendance. Increasing attendance by half a percentage point could lead to $100,000 more in state revenue, according to the Los Angeles Times.[7]
Other ideas to save money included increasing the fee for outside groups to rent school facilities, lowering individual schools' budgets, moving summer school locations from multiple buildings into one, and sending fewer paper mailings to parents.[7]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Glendale City Clerk, "Nomination Papers Issued," accessed January 27, 2017
- ↑ Glendale City Clerk, "Glendale Municipal Election 2017," accessed April 5, 2017
- ↑ Glendale City Clerk, "Disclosure Statements: Public Access Portal," accessed August 1, 2017
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Teachers union endorses candidates for Glendale school board, GCC," March 8, 2017
- ↑ Massis Post, "ACA-PAC Issues Endorsements for Glendale Municipal Elections," March 22, 2017
- ↑ Armenian National Committee of America, "ANCA-Glendale Announces Endorsements for GUSD Board of Education," accessed March 29, 2017
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Los Angeles Times, "Glendale Unified is spending more money than it's bringing in, officials say," January 17, 2017
| Glendale Unified School District elections in 2017 | |
| Los Angeles County, California | |
| Election date: | April 4, 2017 |
| Candidates: | Trustee Area B: • Incumbent, Greg Krikorian • Vardan Stepanyan Trustee Area C: • Incumbent, Armina Gharpetian Trustee Area D: • Joal Ryan • Shant Sahakian |
| Important information: | What was at stake? • Additional elections on the ballot • Key deadlines |
