Pennock wins; runoff in District 1
Kraus, Youngblood running to claim seat vacated by Bauer
Amy Pennock won the District 4 seat on the Seminole County School Board Tuesday, and the top two candidates in District 1 are headed to a runoff in the Nov. 6 general election after no one received the majority vote in the nonpartisan primary.
In District 4 — which comprises the central part of the county — with all of the precincts counted, Pennock had 50.8 percent of the vote to 27.7 percent for Geri Wright and 21.3 percent for Bobby Agagnina.
Pennock, 47, the owner and CFO of Outsources Consulting/Forensic Accounting, said Tuesday night she was “elated to close it out” and succeed board chairwoman Amy Lockhart, who resigned her position to run for the Seminole County Commission.
“I have three kids in the school system, I’m a business owner with a finance background so I had kind of the trifecta of what people believed were needed on the school board,” Pennock said.
In District 1 — which includes southeastern Seminole County — with all of the precincts counted, Kristine Kraus had 33.4 percent of the vote to 32.7 percent for Alan Youngblood and 25.4 percent for Cade Resnick. A fourth candidate withdrew from the race after the ballots were printed.
Kraus and Youngblood are running to claim the seat of Jeffrey Bauer, who resigned in February after missing meetings and other official functions for over a year because of health problems.
Each position on Seminole’s fiveperson school board pays $41,040 annually. School board members help oversee the state’s 12th-largest district, which has 64 campuses, 66,000 students and more than 9,000 employees.
In District 1, Kraus, a 60-year-old former preschool teacher, said school buildings need single points of entry for safety and she’ll work to ensure students have more access to mental-health counselors
School Board members can’t work for the district they represent so Youngblood must resign from his teaching job at Lake Howell High School if he wins the District 1 seat in November.
Youngblood, 53, said he’ll work to keep students safe by installing more security cameras and increase partnerships between the district and potential employers for students.