While I myself am also running for Kelseyville Unified School District Board I want to extend my full support and unwavering endorsement to Rick Winer for Kelseyville Unified School Board.

There are several reasons why I endorse Rick. First, however I must share as a colleague who currently serves with him on the Kelseyville Unified School Board, we don’t always agree, heck we don’t always get-along! Yet I know he is the most qualified and fittest person to serve on the board. He is a man I respect and his experience and wisdom in the field of public education is invaluable!

Rick has vast experience that is essential to our schools success through his 30-plus years working first hand in education to his 20-plus years serving on the board. His wisdom in this space, among our other board members who have served four years or less, is extremely important to continuity and ability to navigate through the work necessary to run a school district.

Unlike the candidate also running for the Kelseyville School Board, Rick is present in our school system. Rick is INVOLVED, he is on-site at every school. Rick is at every school function, whether it is serving breakfast to staff on their first day back at school to KLA graduations that only he and I attend, Rick is there. In the last 20-plus years as a board member he has missed less than a handful of meetings, this is incredible!

Rick is unbiased, his dedication to the future of our youth is evident by his actions, and he is an asset to our district.

I hope you join me Tuesday, Nov. 8 (or sooner) in placing your vote for Rick and myself for Kelseyville Unified School District.

Allison Panella lives in Kelseyville, California.