{"id":41862,"date":"2016-12-14T14:58:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T14:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=41862"},"modified":"2017-01-11T22:37:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T22:37:55","slug":"acc-voters-elect-new-trustees-in-runoff-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/12\/14\/acc-voters-elect-new-trustees-in-runoff-election\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC voters elect new trustees in runoff election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Hassan and Julie Ann Nitsch won Tuesday\u2019s runoff election for Place 4 and 9 respectively on the Austin Community College District Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_41863\" style=\"width: 393px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41863\" class=\" wp-image-41863\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/12\/Hassan.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy: Sean Hassan Campaign\" width=\"383\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/12\/Hassan.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/12\/Hassan-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/12\/Hassan-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/12\/Hassan-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-41863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy: Sean Hassan Campaign<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hassan, 37, is the owner of a childcare and early childhood education center. He also has\u00a0served as vice president with a Boys &amp; Girls Clubs chapter that focused its programs on introducing science, technology, engineering, and math and early literacy to low-income, Latino youth.<\/p>\n<p>Nitsch, 31, is a political activist and former ACC student and employee. She faced former ACC Trustee Guadalupe Sosa in the runoff and will serve the remaining two years in the Place 9 term of Allen Kaplan, who resigned from the ACC board last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the complete unofficial results:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Place 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hassan \u2013\u00a016,550 votes (65 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Lewis \u2013 9,076 votes (35 percent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Place 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nitsch \u2013 15,593 (61 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Sosa \u2013 9,963 (39 percent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_41864\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41864\" class=\" wp-image-41864\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/12\/Nitsch.jpg\" alt=\"Courtesy: Julie Ann Nitsch Campaign\" width=\"242\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/12\/Nitsch.jpg 570w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/12\/Nitsch-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2016\/12\/Nitsch-107x150.jpg 107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-41864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy: Julie Ann Nitsch Campaign<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hassan and Nitsch join the board\u2019s other newly elected trustees, Nicole Eversmann for Place 5 and Nora DeHoyos Comstock for Place 6, who each secured their seats in November\u2019s general election and were sworn in to office in December\u2019s board meeting. Hassan and Nitsch will take office in the January board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Trustees serve six-year terms and are elected at-large by registered voters who live within the ACC District, which includes the City of Austin as well as the Austin, Leander, Manor, Del Valle, Round Rock, Elgin, and Hays school districts.<\/p>\n<p>Comprehensive runoff results will be available on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/offices\/external-affairs\/acc-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACC Elections website<\/a>. Individual county results will be available through county election websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Hassan and Julie Ann Nitsch won Tuesday\u2019s runoff election for Place 4 and 9 respectively on the Austin Community College District Board of Trustees. Hassan, 37, is the owner of a childcare and early &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2016\/12\/14\/acc-voters-elect-new-trustees-in-runoff-election\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":36595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,17,19],"tags":[274,1143,1270],"class_list":["post-41862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-students","category-facstaff-news","category-news-and-announcements","category-students-and-alumni","tag-board-of-trustees","tag-election-day","tag-runoff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}