{"id":75883,"date":"2017-11-28T14:26:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T21:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-school-board-swears-in-two-new-directors\/"},"modified":"2017-11-28T21:26:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T21:26:50","slug":"dolores-school-board-swears-in-two-new-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-school-board-swears-in-two-new-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores School Board swears in two new directors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b08f4142-46f1-4740-a98f-2a8677ffcfd2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Former board president Linnea Vass swears in Kay Phelps and Casey McClellan to the Dolores School Board.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Former board president Linnea Vass swears in Kay Phelps and Casey McClellan to the Dolores School Board.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Emily Rice\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Two new members were sworn on the Dolores School Board on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Casey McClellan and Kay Phelps both won their new seats on the board in the Nov. 7 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels great. I am happy to be here for the benefit of these guys (his own children) and everyone else\u2019s kids,\u201d McClellan said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, new board officers were appointed.<\/p>\n<p>Deanna Prock was voted as the new board president by a unanimous voice vote.<\/p>\n<p>New board member Kay Phelps was appointed as vice president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am ecstatic,\u201d Phelps said. \u201cI love Dolores, and I have mentioned before that I started my teaching here. \u2026 I love this community, and people have asked me why I am here, and it is just because I respect the people, the staff, the faculty and the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McClellan was appointed board treasurer.<\/p>\n<p>The board voted to keep Deanna Truelsen as the board secretary.<\/p>\n<p>The audience and board congratulated Linnea Vass for her 10 years of service to the board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks for your service, and we look forward to you being in the crowd to give us a hard time,\u201d Superintendent Scott Cooper joked to laughter and applause.<\/p>\n<p>The special board meeting was adjourned at 6:19 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>directors receive titles of vice president, treasurer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,44,103,13,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-75883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-dolores","tag-dolores-schools-re-4a","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75883"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=75883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}