Sitton, Scarfo and Martin win Election

Monday, May 23, 2011

Molly Chiu

Humble Independent School District held elections for the Board of Trustees May 14, and voters elected Robert Sitton to Trustee Position 1, David P. Martin to Trustee Position 6 and Robert Scarfo to Trustee Position 7. Incumbent Scarfo carried over 80 percent of the vote, defeating Wade Woodard with 1,705 votes, and incumbent Martin, with 1,661 votes ran unopposed.

Scarfo begins his second term on the school board, and he said that Humble ISD will continue to focus on academics.

On the issue of the budget, Scarfo hopes that Rep. Dan Huberty’s appropriations bill will be passed in the House.

“We have done everything the Legislature has asked,” Scarfo said, adding that Humble ISD is one of only 200 school districts out of 1,070 where voters approved a tax hike in 2008. “We will continue to be good stewards of tax payer money,” Scarfo said.

Sitton carried 45 percent of the overall vote, defeating Daniel Ledoux, Fred Rosenberg, Johnny O’Connor, Susan B. Leopold, and Vernon Reed with 1,044 votes. Although Sitton won nearly half of the overall vote, Ledoux had a solid lead at all Kingwood polling locations.

Ledoux congratulated Sitton and said that he hopes he will do a good job in office. Sitton, an Humble native carried the early voting and the Humble and Atascocita polling locations. Sitton said that his experience as a former teacher, a member of the Humble ISD Education Foundation Board of Directors, and a member of the Lake Houston Area Chamber of Commerce will assist him in helping to improve Humble ISD.

“I want to make Humble ISD the best school district in the state of Texas,” Sitton said.

Sitton said that he will do this by bringing more teachers back. The budget will be approved by June 30, and Sitton said that at the end of the summer, the board will reassess.

“I want to bring back as many teachers as possible,” Sitton said.