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, March 18.

Three seats are open for appointment. Those holding the three seats up for reappointment are Scott Pierce, Roger Zacharias and Gary Olsen. The three-year appointments for those seats begin July 1, 2015, and end June 30, 2018.

Seats are one from Kenosha County, Walworth County, and one is a districtwide seat. In addition, the group of those selected must also meet the following criteria:

• One must be a school district administrator. This person must be employed by a school district within the Gateway Technical College District.
• One must be an employer member. In general, this is someone who possesses the power to hire, suspend, layoff, fire, promote or reward other employees, and also to suspend, recall or handle discharges and grievances of other employees.
• One must be an employee member. In general, this is someone who is employed but does not meet the classification of an employer member.

Applications must be notarized, include two letters of reference, and applicants must be present at the April 9 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/appointments
• From the office of the Vice President, Human Resources, located at the Administration Center at Gateway’s Kenosha Campus, 3520-30^th Ave., Kenosha.