In June, voters will elect new school board members for each of the two districts. They will take office July 15.

Both the remaining Jordan district and the new, as-yet-unnamed east-side district will have seven board members. The current Jordan Board of Education will dissolve July 15, 2009. Those members can serve on both the new and old boards simultaneously.

Candidates interested in running for the new boards must file by March 17.

Voters in Sandy, Draper, Cottonwood Heights, Midvale and Alta approved splintering the state's largest school district last fall. Transition teams for both the new and old districts have begun determining how to divide Jordan's assets.

The transition team for the remaining district is led by Ralph Haws, a former Jordan district employee and school board member. Other members of the team include Rick Horst, Don Wallace, Dennis Higbee and Sterling Nielsen, whose backgrounds include city government, development and finance. Horst is the South Jordan city manager.

The transition team for the new east-side district includes Jason Burningham, Bob Day, Steve Newton, DeVon Sanderson and LaMont Smith. Burningham was one of the consultants who developed a feasibility study on a potential Jordan split. Both Day and Sanderson were formerly employed at the district, Sanderson as the business administrator.

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