Newly elected St. Joseph School District Board of Education members said they are excited to take on their roles with the district.

Dr. Bryan Green and Tami Pasley were selected out of a total of 10 candidates by voters in Tuesday’s municipal election.

“I’m not coming with an agenda,” Pasley said. “I don’t have anything right away that I want to get started other than maybe stopping the balanced budget approach and just kind of sit back and see where we’re at and where the board is and going through the budget line item by line item.”

Green said he knew he was probably in the top four or five but did not realize he would be the candidate to garner the most votes at 22.74%.

“What I do every day is engage with people and work with people and work with trying to encourage people in moving in a positive direction,” Green said. “I look forward to being able to do that with our schools as well.”

Pasley, who was selected by 17.23% of voters said she feels like her past experience in education will be a positive influence on the board.

“I have been a classroom teacher for 26 years,” Pasley said. “I bring a lot of knowledge that I feel is going to help build back the school district, get the trust back.”

Green and Pasley said they believe they will report for duty next week.

They will replace outgoing board members Brad Haggard and Eric Bruder, who was filling a position left by the resignation of former board member Dan Colgan.