Meyer has large lead over Mazzarella in college board election
Published 7:45 pm Tuesday, May 21, 2019
- Anne Teaford-Cantor
Challenger Sara Meyer has more than twice as many votes as incumbent Andrea Mazzarella in the race for Zone 2, Position 2 on the Clatsop Community College Board covering Astoria and outlying neighborhoods.
Meyer, 74, has touted her experience serving on the college board from 1996 to 2000 and the Astoria School Board from 1976 to 1980. She came to Astoria in the 1970s with her husband, Chuck, worked at Tongue Point Job Corps Center and opened the Compleat Photographer with her husband in 1977, running it for 40 years.
Mazzarella, 38, a real estate agent and former service-sector worker for more than 20 years, was appointed to the college board in January 2018 to replace Patrick Wingard, and also serves on the Astoria Budget Committee.
She was in the college’s Upward Bound high school enrichment program, used its Small Business Development Center when starting a small business and studies in its historic preservation program. The youngest member of the college board, Mazzarella hoped to dive deeper into the governance of the school.
The college recently finished the $16 million redevelopment of Patriot Hall and is in the process of closing on 22 acres at South Tongue Point it leases for the Marine and Environmental Research and Training Station, its career-technical campus. The college is trying to raise more than $20 million to build a new academic hall there for its unique maritime science program.
Karen Burke, a retired nursing instructor and chairwoman of the college board, won an uncontested race for Zone 1, Position 1 covering much of the eastern portion of Clatsop County. Anne Teaford-Cantor, who retired from the corporate world to Astoria in 2003 and joined the college board in 2015, also ran unopposed.
Two positions on the college board representing Warrenton and South County, being vacated by retired anesthetist Tessa Scheller and Seaside Public Library Director Esther Moberg, had no filed candidates and will likely be decided by appointment.
See full election results for Clatsop County at: https://results.oregonvotes.gov