Sharon Petrie will continue as the Camp Verde Unified School District’s Governing Board president for 2026. The clerk will continue to be Paul Hawk.
The votes were unanimous during the board’s Tuesday, Jan. 13, meeting.
The main role of the president is to run the meetings and help create the agenda, and the clerk’s role is to help with record-keeping.
The terms are one year, and will take place again next January after the new board is sworn in.
Petrie, and board members Maraya Oouthoudt and Carol German are up for reelection this year, while Hawk and board member Steve Gresham have terms running through 2028.
The board voted to keep its meetings scheduled for the second Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. in the library in the Camp Verde Unified School District’s Multi-Use Complex. The October meeting will take place one week earlier on Oct. 6, and is the only planned change for fall break.
ASBA State Conference
The Arizona School Boards Association held its annual conference in December which CVUSD Superintendent Steve Hicks and Hawk attended.
Hicks said there were a lot of topics discussed throughout the two day conference discussing leadership, and the role of boards and superintendents.
“One was one caring adult can change the integrity of a student,” Hicks said. “Our chart, as educators, is to guarantee our students a successful future and not leave it to the hands of faith.”
Hicks said it’s important that the school districts makes sure everyone has at least one caring teacher, administrator or some other district employee in their life.
AIA Brackets
Hawk said he attended ABSA meetings discussing Arizona Interscholastic Association and the disparities between public schools and private and charter schools, especially showing up in sports championships.
“Our volleyball team this year. It’s pretty good,” he said. “When the playoff brackets came out, I believe I counted up there about 50. … About half of them were public schools and about half of them were charters and privates. And so when the bracket came out of the 16 teams that made the playoffs, three were public [schools].”
He said the AIA announced its was looking at making changes to how the sport brackets were made, between metropolitan and rural schools to at least begin to address the disparity.
