March 8, 2010
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For immediate release March 8, 2010 |
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Health District to cancel board election; Tim O’Neill to fill open position
With only three qualified candidates to fill three open seats, the Health District of Northern Larimer County will cancel its May 4 board of directors election.
The Health District board will need to cancel the election officially as called for by state law. It will have an opportunity to do so at its next meeting March 12.
Three people filed for candidacy by the state-mandated deadline of Feb. 26. Another individual filed the required paperwork after the deadline and was disqualified.
The three candidates, who automatically will begin new terms on the board in May, include two incumbents and one newcomer:
• Joe Hendrickson, 62, of Fort Collins, is the current president of the Health District board of directors. He is an instructor at the University of Northern Colorado and a former assistant superintendent with Poudre School District. He was appointed to fill a vacancy on the board in December 2003. He subsequently was elected to fill the remaining two years of the term in 2004 and was re-elected in 2008.
• Celeste Kling, 52, of Fort Collins, is a local attorney, mediator, children’s advocate and adjunct faculty member at Colorado State University. She was elected to the Health District board in 2006.
• Tim O’Neill, 57, of Fort Collins, is executive director of Foothills Gateway, a Fort Collins agency whose mission is to empower and support individuals with cognitive disabilities and their families. He will fill a vacancy left by the impending departure of board member Lee Thielen, who is term-limited.
All three will be sworn in for four-year terms in May.
The Health District is a public agency that provides dental, mental health, prescription assistance and health promotion services to the residents of northern Larimer County. It is governed by a five-person board of directors whose members are publicly elected at large from the community in elections held every two years.
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