answers by candidate
Chris Benda

 

205 Jensen
Gilbert, Iowa 50105
(515) 233-1057

1. What do you see as being the main issues facing the Gilbert Community School District?

Expanding class sizes, construction of middle school, keep the high quality of education our children are receiving.

   
2. What experiences, attributes, or other factors from your background would help make you a good school board member?

Strong maintenance background, coaching experience, and my willingness to be involved in the school system.
  

3. Why are you running for the school board?

Give something back to a great school district and employees, also I have personal interest as I have 2 children grades 6 and 8 in the school system, and I also think it is my civic duty.

   
4. What kind of time commitment and other involvement do you see yourself making to the school district during your term as a board member?

I will continue to volunteer at sporting events, and I will also put in the necessary time as a school board member.

   
5. If in five years from now, a motion picture or novel were written about your role as a board member, what would you want the title of the film or book to be?

Rebel with a Cause

   
6. What adjectives would you use to describe the Gilbert schools as they are now?

Caring, Friendly, Patient.

  
7. In five years from now, what adjectives would you like people to use to describe the Gilbert schools?

Patient, Friendly, Caring.

   
8. It's been said that being a school board member is a tough job because the primary work of a school involves children, and people have emotional attachments to children that can influence judgment and decision-making. How do you see yourself working in that kind of situation where you (or visitors to board meetings) have emotions related to a decision that needs to be made and yet there needs to be sufficient detachment to make a fair decision?

As much as I would like, you cannot please everyone all the time. Plus 5 heads are better than 1.
  

9. In addition to tending to the wide range of business and major issues that come before the school board, do you also have a pet idea or two for which you would like be the catalyst to see happen in the school district? Please give a brief description of the idea or ideas.

None
  

10.What else would you want voters to know about yourself? (The answers can be either serious or light-hearted. A little humor never hurt any situation.)

(no answer)
    

Go to complete set of responses by:

Chris Benda, Shele Bloom, Rich Herrington, Jim McKean, and Mary Zimmerman
    

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