The Board Appointment Committee for the Gateway Technical College District Board of Trustees has begun accepting applications from district residents seeking appointment to the board.

Deadline to apply for the appointment is noon, February 21.

Three seats are open for appointment. Those holding the three seats up for reappointment are Ram Bhatia, Pamela Zenner-Richards and Neville Simpson. The three-year appointments for those seats begin July 1, 2014, and end June 30, 2017.         

Seats are one from Kenosha County and two from Racine County. In addition, the group of those selected must also meet the following criteria:

• One must be an elected official. In general, an elected official is a state or local official as defined by 5.02 of Wisconsin Statutes. Examples include city council, common council, county board, school board, sheriff, Legislature, town board, town clerk and village board.
• Two are considered additional member seats. In general, all residents of a technical college district are eligible to serve as an additional member for the college.

Applications must be notarized, include two letters of reference, and applicants must be present at the March 26 meeting of the appointment committee at the Burlington Center, 496 McCanna Parkway. Chairpersons of the Kenosha County, Walworth County and Racine County boards of supervisors make up the interview committee.

Those interested in applying can obtain the application/affidavit packet:

• online at www.gtc.edu
• From the office of the Vice President, Human Resources, located at the Administration Center at Gateway’s Kenosha Campus, 3520-30th Ave., Kenosha.