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Chula Vista school district selects new trustee

The Chula Vista Elementary School District has appointed longtime educator Glendora M. Tremper as its newest trustee. Tremper, a bilingual language-speech and hearing specialist and former student services coordinator at South Bay Union School District, was sworn in by Superintendent Francisco Escobedo at a special board meeting Monday night at the Education Service and Support Center.

Board members, minus Douglas Luffborough who was absent, unanimously approved Tremper, 57, to replace Russell Coronado who resigned in March, citing “personal reasons.” Tremper will serve out the remainder of his term which ends in December.

The board decided not to fill the vacancy through a special election because of its estimated cost of $770,000 to $800,000. Casting its net throughout the community, the district received 12 applications and winnowed the field down to two candidates, Tremper and John Mendez, a local businessman with four children who are current or former school district students.

Tremper and Mendez made brief presentations and answered questions posed by trustees at Monday’s special meeting.

“We can’t go wrong with either candidate,” said board member Larry Cunningham during discussions. “The easiest way out is to expand the board.”

Board President Pamela Smith said in her 18 years on the board, she has been through the process of choosing a new member four times, but “this is the toughest in terms of neck and neck candidates.”

This is third time since 2007 the board has appointed a new member. Trustee David Bejarano was chosen out of a pool of 39 candidates in 2007 after Cheryl Cox stepped down following her election as mayor of Chula Vista. Luffborough was selected out of 23 applicants in 2009 after Bertha Lopez resigned to serve on the Sweetwater Union High School District board.

Born in Cincinnati, Tremper is currently a lead language-speech and hearing specialist at River Springs Charter School in Temecula. She was coordinator of student services for South Bay Union School District for nine years, and a bilingual language-speech and hearing specialist for that district for seven years.

Tremper has a master’s degree in speech-language pathology from San Diego State University and a bachelor’s degree in speech-language pathology from the University of Texas at El Paso. She lives in Chula Vista with her family and has a 6th grade son in the Chula Vista Elementary School District.

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