By Allen Payton

According to the Antioch Unified School District’s website, 11 people have submitted applications for the vacancy on the Antioch School Board, created by the resignation of Barbara Cowan, for the one year remaining in her term.

The applicants include both former Antioch School Board Trustees who were defeated in last year’s election, Gary Hack and Joy Motts, as well as Carleton Booker, Jayson Bordges, Mark Jordan, Millard Larkin II, Amalia Marroquin, Fernando Navarro, Alicia Okoh, Ronald Partain and Julie Young.

11-3-15 3:45 PM Update: According to their applications, posted on the district’s website, this afternoon (available below), phone interviews and internet searches, Booker is owner of 911 MYNONPROFIT and author of the book Things You Need To Know About Non-Profits – Making Sense of Non-Profit Status, and a pastor in an Antioch church; Bordges is Pastor of the Antioch Wesleyan Church; Jordan is a real estate broker in Antioch; Larkin is a Senior Vice President of One Ingress, a start-up technology company based in Walnut Creek; Marroquin is a mental health therapist; Navarro is the owner of a mobile waterless car wash and detail company serving “dot com companies in the Silicon Valley”; Okoh is a social worker; Partain is a retired locomotive engineer and CEO/Director of Wings Ministry International; and Young is an independent kitchen consultant.

Jordan said he would not run for the seat, in next year’s elections, but he thinks it would be good to have a business person on the board during the selection process for the new superintendent.

They will be interviewed by the Board during a special, public meeting on Wednesday, November 4 at 6:00 p.m. in the Board Room at the School District offices located at 510 G Street, in downtown.

11-4-15 12:15 PM Update: The school district, following media requests and the standard practice by the County Elections Office for candidates for public office, released the phone numbers of the candidates for both the media and public to be able to contact them. Below is that information in the order it was received by the district.

In addition, Gill stated Wednesday morning, that Jayson Bordges had withdrawn from consideration because he is out of state and unable to make the meeting for the interview, this evening.

Applicants and Phone Numbers (all are 925 Area Code unless noted):

Carleton Book – work: 877-865-4445, home: 752-1973

Gary Hack – home: 757-1375

Mark Jordan – work: 757-8080, home: 876-8080

Millard Larkin – work: 472-6968 x 105, home: 755-9724

Amalia Marroquin – work: 427-8664 x 242, home: 708-4693

Joyann Motts – work: 513-0444, home: 813-0036

Fernando Navarro – work & home: (650) 630-5209

Alicia Okoha – work: not provided, home: 864-2325

Ronald Partain – work & home: 628-1777

Julie Young – work & home: 778-5915

Applications:

Alicia Okoh Amalia Marroquin Carleton Booker Fernando Navarro Gary Hack Jayson Bordges Joyann Motts Julie Young Millard Larkin II Ronald Partain

the attachments to this post:

Ronald Partain
Ronald Partain

Millard Larkin II
Millard Larkin II

Julie Young
Julie Young

Joyann Motts
Joyann Motts

Jayson Bordges
Jayson Bordges

Gary Hack
Gary Hack

Fernando Navarro
Fernando Navarro

Carleton Booker
Carleton Booker

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