Ocean City High School
Five candidates have applied to complete an unexpired term on the Ocean City Board of Education.
Each of the candidates will be interviewed during a public meeting at 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 23, in the Community Room at Ocean City High School (entrance on the beach block of Sixth Street).
Each interview is expected to last about 20 minutes, and the board is expected then to vote on the appointment of one candidate to replace Pete Madden, who relinquished his seat when he took office as a city councilman on July 1.
The candidates are as follows:
- Dale F. Braun, Jr.
- Michael A. James
- David E. Powell
- Gregory Whelan, J.D.
- Edmund L. Wisham, Jr.
Candidates were asked to submit letters of interest and resumes by a July 9 deadline. The school administration hopes the new board member can be sworn in as quickly as the regularly scheduled Board of Education meeting that starts at 7 p.m. July 23, immediately following the interviews.
Madden was elected to a three-year term to the board in November 2013, but he was elected to City Council on May 13 (2014) and took office on July 1. The law prevents him from serving in both seats.
The board voted 5-2 in May to make the new appointment after the third Monday in July — a decision that, in essence, determined that the appointee will serve 16 months before facing a potential election.
If the appointment were to have been made earlier than that date, the appointee would have served only the four months until the next school board election in November 2014. State law designates the cutoff.
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