San Angelo ISD board candidate: Samantha Schwartz
SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — In addition to mayor and city council elections, voters in the May City Elections will cast ballots for the San Angelo ISD board.
Samantha Schwartz is from District 4 and is running as a San Angelo ISD board candidate.
Schwartz started out in crime scene. She worked with the San Angelo Police Department for about five years. She then moved over to the San Angelo Fire Marshal's office, where she was the Assistant Fire Marshal. Schwartz next move in her professional career was being a criminal investigator for the Tom Green County District Attorney's office.
Schwartz is looking to create term limits on the board members.
'I'd like to see term limits put on board members and I'd honestly like to get more involvement in the community,' said Schwartz.
Schwartz wants to address the problems and rumors about the schools in SAISD. She talked about how this will help build trust within the school community.
'I think being transparent about what is or what isn't going on would when it comes to trust in SAISD,' said Schwartz.
Schwartz talked about how she would go through the budgeting if elected. She said she would like to use her experience in in budgeting and managing to help the community.
'If you want to see some change made and want to have someone to go in there, give you the facts exactly how it is and not sugar coat it and not hide it from you then you're going to vote, and I'd hope you vote for me because that's what I plan and intend on,' said Schwartz
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