Second applicant drops from Hart board race
While seven people applied for a vacancy on the Hart District school board, District Trustee Area 3 seat, a second person dropped out of the pool of applicants Tuesday.
On Monday, applicant Ann-Marie Bjorkman told The Signal she removed her name from the running Monday morning.
On Tuesday, The Signal confirmed that Noe Garcia has also dropped out of the running for the Hart seat, according to Dave Caldwell, public information officer for the Hart District.
This brings the number of Santa Clarita residents running for the Hart Governing Board to five.
The vacancy was created by the resignation of Rob Hall who stepped down to take a position with his company’s Singapore office.
Tonight at 6 p.m., the remaining applicants will be interviewed in 10-minute sessions and publically debated before one is selected to fill the vacancy.
The remaining applicants to fill the vacancy include: TimBen Boydston, Kenneth Dean, Cherise Moore, Hilary Schardein and Teresa Todd.
While The Signal profiled the applicants on Monday, TimBen Boydston’s profile appeared on a different page of the newspaper than the other applicants. We are republishing his profile below for readers who have missed it in print.
TimBen Boydston
A resident of Santa Clarita for more than 40 years, TimBen Boydston knows the valley he was born and raised in well.
He attended school at Sulphur Springs Elementary, Placerita Junior High School, Canyon High School and College of the Canyons, before earning his bachelor’s degree in theatre from California State University Northridge.
Boydston served as lab technician in the United States Air Force for four years before opening his own businesses and acting as a commercial property manager focusing on redevelopment in Santa Monica and Hollywood.
For more than 10 years, Boydston has acted as executive director of the Canyon Theatre Guild in Old Town Newhall where he helped the company grow and build.
In 2007-2008, Boydston who served 16 months on the City Council after being appointed to serve out Cameron Smyth’s term when he was elected to the State Assembly.
From 2012 to 2016, Boydston served again as a member of the Santa Clarita City Council and sat on the City of Santa Clarita Arts Advisory Committee.
Boydston ran for reelection to the council in November, where he finished third, and applied in January to fill the vacancy left by Councilmember Dante Acosta’s election to State Assembly.