David Gardner - Candidate for Alburnett Community School Board
Biographical:
I am 50 years
old. My family includes my wife Sue;
daughter Sara, a senior at Linn-Mar; daughter Ellen, a sophomore at Alburnett;
and son Ross, a sixth grader at Alburnett.
We have lived in the district for seven years.
I am a veterinarian and have co-owned and operated
Alburnett Veterinary Service in Alburnett for 24 years. I graduated from East
Union Community
School, a small school in
south-central Iowa,
in 1975. I received a B.S. degree in
animal science from Iowa State University
in 1979 and received my D.V.M. degree from Iowa State
in 1983.
Experience:
* Served as president and secretary of the Linn County
Veterinary Association
* Present board member and past president of the Eastern
Iowa Veterinary Association
* Executive board member of the Iowa Veterinary Medical
Association from 1992- 2000
* Member of the Alburnett Community
School Improvement
Advisory Committee since 2002
Positions and Concerns:
* I want to see students challenged to meet their
academic potential. One way is to reward
those teachers with the skills to motivate their students.
* I supported the successful 2006 bond issue and look
forward to seeing the improvements positively impact our students.
* I believe in fiscal responsibility—let’s see the SILO
tax dollars before we decide how best to allocate them.
* We need to remember that we must maintain what we build
or buy through the SILO tax. Maintenance costs have become a problem for some
districts whose board members I have visited. --Joel @ 1:20pm