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Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Odell Brewing's community outreach coordinator running for seat on PSD Board of Education
Karla Baise, the community outreach coordinator at Odell Brewing Co. for more than 18 years, is running for a seat on the Poudre School District Board of Education in the November 2025 election. Baise, who filed her candidate paperwork with the Colorado Secretary of State's office June 11, is running for the District C seat currently held by school board President Kristen Draper who is term-limited and cannot run for reelection. Sabrina Herrick, the parent of a victim of former PSD bus attendant Tyler Zanella, is also running for the District C seat. There is no single issue, Baise said, that convinced her to run for a seat on the school board. It's more of an overall concern as an active and engaged parent of two children in PSD schools. 'My family has had such an amazing experience with Poudre School District,' Baise told the Coloradoan. 'My children both went to Tavelli Elementary, and we were very active in that school community, and I feel like I've become protective of it. 'I want to make sure all kids in our community have the same access to a quality education that my kids have had and that the teachers are heard and supported.' District C encompasses northeast Fort Collins. School board directors are elected by all voters within PSD's boundaries but must reside within the geographic district they hope to represent. Voters will also be selecting directors for the District D and E seats in the November 2025 election. Baise has lived in Fort Collins since 1999 and she and her husband, John, have two children in PSD schools — a daughter at Poudre High School and a son who will start middle school this fall at Lincoln. Baise holds a bachelor's degree from Colorado State University in international studies with a focus on Latin America and a minor in Spanish. Her interest in running for a seat on the school board, Baise said, was piqued by concerns she has heard in recent years about 'discordance' within the school board itself and the 'culture' of the school district. Although her candidacy is not related to her work at Odell Brewing, Baise believes her professional experience has provided her with a solid foundation that will serve her well as a member of the Board of Education. 'My experience as a community outreach coordinator for such an iconic and legendary Fort Collins company has definitely enabled me to put roots down in this community and be a very active community member,' Baise said. Reporter Kelly Lyell covers education, breaking news, some sports and other topics of interest for the Coloradoan. Contact him at kellylyell@ and This article originally appeared on Fort Collins Coloradoan: Odell Brewing community outreach coordinator runs for PSD school board
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘They wiped the whole fund out': Commissioner wants to claw back $8M given to chairman's district
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A dispute over $9.8 million of discretionary funds pits an incoming Clark County Commissioner against her predecessor, who gave the money to yet a third commissioner for a pet redevelopment project, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned. Shortly into District C commissioner April Becker's first term, she discovered that Ross Miller, the former commissioner for District C, gave the entire allotment to help redevelop Commercial Center in Las Vegas. Commercial Center, the enormous outdoor shopping area famous in the 1960s for its many local stores and businesses, popular restaurants and celebrity patronage. Commercial Center is in District E's redevelopment district, the area represented by Clark County Commission Chairman Tick Segerblom. 'They wiped the whole fund out,' Becker told the 8 News Now Investigators. Miller does not disagree, and contends that he diverted the funds to Segerblom after years of planning and with the end goal of redeveloping an area critical to the region's success as a world-class American city. 'We're no longer in our infancy as a community in Las Vegas,' Miller said in an interview conducted at the Composers Room, a restaurant and stage in the space where the Rat Pack would eat when it was a local deli. 'We're in our adolescence. So do we want to become Chicago, or Detroit?' Miller said he spent his one and only four-year term as county commissioner 'working with stakeholders constituents following the reports that have existed for 20 years as to how to spend this money so that we can create catalytic projects that will reinvigorate this area and result in a creative arts district for Las Vegas.' Segerblom, when confronted with Becker's efforts to be made whole and her argument that she and her District C constituents deserve to spend that money in their territory, found $2 million to give back to her. Asked whether that was an indication Becker had a valid point with regard to the $9.8 million, Segerblom said, 'No. I honestly felt bad that she wanted to have some money. You know, I'm the chairman of the commission, so I just felt this was a good thing to do.' But Becker, in her interview with the 8 News Now Investigators earlier this year, said, 'Yes, I do want my money.' Miller, unmoved by Becker's argument that the money – from District C's discretionary parks account – was misspent. 'The idea that somehow you would walk into an office and based off of a previous budget, just inherit $10 million and go spend it without any planning – that's scary,' Miller said. 'What she's proposing is actually a little alarming. Shouldn't you have to go and meet with stakeholders and review plans and engage in a planning process so that we know that we're spending your taxpayer dollars effectively and efficiently?' Becker said even if Miller's depletion of the funds was nothing nefarious – as Segerblom insisted – she has a problem with a process that allows for the significant allocation of money outside of a commissioner's district. 'It's wrong,' Becker said. 'So if nothing else comes from this, let's fix that because I don't mind having checks and balances on myself. I put them on there because what I'm going to do, I will be accountable for.' Each district was originally given $14 million for this discretionary account from the general fund, according to records obtained by the 8 News Now Investigators. Each district was then forced to part with approximately $4 million in order to help pay for an $80 million lawsuit settlement with regard to a development project on Blue Diamond Hill. Another commissioner, District F's Justin Jones, deleted text messages critical to the litigation, and that brought each district's haul from the discretionary dispensation to $9.8 million. The state bar unsuccessfully attempted to revoke Jones' law license. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
