Thursday, May 22, 2014 - Mason County Journal - Page A-25
A section of the Mason County Journal
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Thursday, May 22, 2014 - Serving the communities of Belfair, Allyn, Grapevlew, Tahuya,
Board chooses new superintendent
Hood Canal native is Longview school administrator
By GORDON WEEKS
gordon@masoncounty.com
Dana Rosenbach, the ex-
ecutive director of leadership
and learning at Longview
Public Schools, was selected
Tuesday to be superintendent
of the North Mason School
District.
Rosenbach replaces David
Peterson, who has served as
the district's superintendent
for seven years. Peterson, 59,
was signed to a three-year
contract to be the superin-
tendent of the Nampa (Idaho)
School District. He assumes
his new duties July 1.
Rosenbach grew up on the
Hood Canal and has more
than 20 years of experience in
education.
Rosenbach was selected in
an unani-
mous vote
by the mem-
bers of the
North Ma-
son School
Board at
a special
meeting.
Rosenbach She was one
of the three
finalists who
were each given a day to meet
the community.
School board member John
Campbell said he is impressed
by Rosenbach's "range and
depth."
"She has the perspective of
an administrator, and a theo-
rist -- she's a doctoral candi-
date -- and as a parent ... and
she's a teacher," he said.
Rosenbach earned her
bachelor's degree from Wash-
ington State University and
her master's in education
administration degree from
California State University,
Northridge. She is a doctoral
candidate in education leader-
ship at WSU.
Rosenbach worked as a
middle school principal in the
Walla Walla School District,
where she completed her su-
perintendent internship. She
also worked as a teacher at
many grade levels, a mid-
dle school principal in Port
Townsend and a consultant
for publisher SRA/McGraw
Hill.
see NEW BOSS, page A-26
Taking a break
A dragonfly perches on a blade of grass on a marsh near Camp Spillman in the Tahuya State Forest last week.
Herald photo by Gordon Weeks
Faith in Action seeks contractors for $2.2M project
By NATALIE JOHNSON
natalie@masoncoun corn
After five years of planning, sav-
ing ,and fundraising, construction on
Faith in Action's HUB senior center
is scheduled to begin as early as this
summer.
Executive Director Patti Kleist said
the organization hopes to find a local
contractor to handle the $2.2 million
project.
"We need the jobs in Mason County,"
she said.
Faith in Action is seeking inter-
est and is gauging qualifications from
general contractors based in Mason or
Kitsap counties for construction of the
center, situated on state Route 300 in
Belfair.
Qualified contractors must be able
to secure a performance bond for ma-
terials and labor on the full value of
the project, including sales tax and
contingency, and have adequate insur-
ance.
Kleist said it is important to her to
use a local contractor if possible, or
encourage their future contractor to
work with local subcontractors.
The organization is getting neces-
sary permits and negotiating a con-
tract with a company to complete the
preliminary site work for the senior
center.
"That's all in place to begin within
the next few weeks," Kleist said.
Faith in Action has collected al-
most $3 million, made up of a loan,
$1.7 million in state funding and
community donations to build a cen-
ter for North Mason seniors to gath-
er. The initial project will finish the
building's ground floor. A subsequent
project, which does not yet have
funding, will finish a second floor,
which will contain office space for the
organization.
"We're getting very, very close,"
Kleist said.
see CONTRACTOR, page A-26
