Incumbent Dubuque Community School Board candidate Adam Mennig still brings a youthful perspective to the table, it's just a little more grown up than when he first ran a few years ago.

Mennig, who seeks a second three-year term in the Sept, 9 election, ran on the promise of a young school board voice in 2005. At 22, he remains the youngest school board candidate.

Mennig did not return phone calls from the TH for this story, as of Friday evening. His comments in 2005 drove home his run on the youth movement.

"I feel a younger voice is needed on the board. Voters would be voting for a younger perspective," he said in TH article before the 2005 election.

Mennig ran for school board in 2004, but did not win a seat.

He has been a strong supporter of the use of drug dogs in Dubuque schools and was active in seeking solutions to Hempstead High School's parking lot problems.

Mennig, who was a policy committee member, recommended the committee's findings in 2007 to adopt an anti-nepotism policy for employees in the district.

He

Adam Mennig
Age: 22. Occupation: Educational specialist with Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates, a non-profit agency, assigned to Senior High School. Family: Single

said in a TH article that the policy was "good business practice" and not retroactive.

More recently, Mennig voted against the school board's decision to defer a decision on the future of Jones Hand-In-Hand Preschool. He voted in the board's unanimous decision in June to defer until February a move to restructure Central Alternative High School.

Mennig also voted to postpone the next two phases of the Irving Elementary School expansion and remodeling project. He was in the minority.

Mennig recently accepted a position as an educational specialist with Iowa Jobs for America's Graduates, a non-profit agency, for which he is assigned to teach at Senior High School. According to state law, his position in the school is not a conflict with a position on the school board.