APT President Elise Marks reports that 55 people stopped by the Measure P campaign table in front of Mulberry’s Market on Saturday to pick up their Measure P packets with door hangers to take to every house in Piedmont.
Campaign Co-Chairs Claire Arno and Dave Karol had tables set up with coffee, pastries, balloons, and lawn signs. Almost the entire School Board came — Lindsay Thomasson, Hilary Cooper, Ruchi Medhekar, Veronica Thigpen (not all are pictured here) — along with Superintendent Jen Hawn, School Board candidates Susy Struble and Michael Malione, and City Council candidate Lorrel Plimier, all of whom spent quite a while talking with teachers Tiffany Cothran, Gillian Bailey, Janine Mortan, Katy Levin, Auban Willats, Shelley Seto, Jennifer Gulassa, Camille Porreca, Jamie Mockel, Karen Bloom, Lydia Adams, Pam Quintella, and more, about what’s going on in PUSD schools and what we most need to keep our programs thriving.
APT members passed out purple pins that said “Yes on P: Great Teachers, Great Schools!” Community members Sue Smegal, Larry Tramutola, and many more stopped by, expressing their support for the new parcel tax.