The Voter Interests Project tracks the candidate filings for offices in Island County for the November 2023 elections. Updated daily.
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Below is a list of the Island County elected officials whose positions are on the ballot in 2023.
The Oak Harbor School Board has decided to table a gender policy revision that would allow counselors to tell parents that their child is transgender, even if the student does not want them to.
Several Oak Harbor parents voiced their opinions on a proposed policy revision for the Oak Harbor School District that would allow counselors to tell parents that their child is transgender, even if the student does not want them to.
The Oak Harbor School District board of directors are considering a policy change that would permit counselors to inform parents about their children’s transgender or “gender-expansive” status.
In the wake of John Diamond’s resignation, community members spoke in support of Jessica Thompson to fill his seat. Thompson lost narrowly to Diamond last fall.
Oak Harbor Public Schools’ superintendent search came to a close last week when the board selected the woman who has led the Cle Elum-Roslyn School District since 2019. During a special meeting March 4, school board members voted unanimously to appoint Michelle Kuss-Cybula to the position.
The regularly-scheduled meeting of the Oak Harbor School District’s board of directors for the last Monday of March 2022