School board seeks Zone 3 trustee applications

BONNERS FERRY — The Boundary County School District is seeking applications to fill the  Zone 3 school board trustee position. The post was declared vacant on May 30.

Per Idaho Code, the vacancy is filled by the school board, which will interview interested candidates. The individual appointed to the post will complete the remaining 17 months of the four-year term previously held by Mike Ferguson. shall complete the term

vacated. At the end of the term, the appointee will need to run for election in the 2027 election. 

Ferguson was appointed to the post in July 2023 after former trustee Niki Weaver moved out of the area and had to vacate the seat. He won election to the post in an uncontested election.

Zone 3 covers the city of Bonners Ferry east of U.S. 95, a small area north of the Kootenai River, east to the bank of the Kootenai River and north of the western part of Kootenai Trail.

A complete description of Zone 3 is available at the BCSD district office, 6770 Augusta St., Bonners Ferry; the Boundary County Clerk's office, or on the district web site at bcsd101.com. 

The school board is accepting letters of interest in completing the Zone 3 term. 

Letters must be turned in at the district office no later than Aug. 31. The district office's summer hours are Monday through Thursday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For further information, call 208-267-3146.