“I’m used to my yard signs getting taken, that seems to happen every election,” Moretz said. “There’s a difference between someone pulling up a [small] yard sign and someone taking the time to spray paint and slash a large banner.”
Facciani is a retired speech-language pathologist, having worked on the East and West coasts, who has four children, one in college and three still in the county school system. She started paying closer attention to the school board during the coronavirus shutdown, she said, and disagreed with many of her opponent’s votes.
“He failed to show leadership and demonstrated time and time again that he’s unreliable, and easily influenced by bad actors,” Facciani said. “So I decided to run for his position, because I knew I could do better.”
Facciani declined to further comment on who the bad actors are, and was brief regarding previous leadership failures.
“It’s not too hard to go back and look up,” Facciani said. “He failed to get our kids back in school sooner.”
Moretz is a wealth advisor and has two children who attend Hidden Valley High School, and his wife is a career educator. He was appointed to the school board in 2015 to fill a vacancy, then was elected in 2016 and most recently ran unopposed for re-election in 2017.
“Some of the political discourse, it’s trickled down to the local elections, and I think it’s wonderful that people are passionate about a local election but, I mean, come on,” Moretz said. “There’s no room for that. I think we could still run a respectful campaign.”
