LPC Members

LPC MEMBERSHIP

Fifty percent of the members are appointed by the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors; and fifty percent are appointed by the Siskiyou County Superintendent of Schools. To encourage balance and diverse representation, members are selected among five categories listed below.

CONSUMERS

Parent or person who receives, or who has received within the past 36 months, child care services.

Ronya Merel - Yreka 

Frieda Bennett, Quartz Valley Indian Reservation

Vacancy 

CHILD CARE PROVIDERS

Person who provides child care services or represents a person who provides child care services. 

Tiffany Elliott, Montague Elementary State Preschool, Montague

Daintry Zarzynski, Butte Valley Montessori, Dorris 

Vacancy

PUBLIC AGENCY REPRESENTATIVES

A person who represents a city, county, or local educational agency. 

Marlene Rodriguez - Karuk Tribal Head Start

Hilary Oilar - Shasta Head Start (Siskiyou Area Manager)

Vacancy

COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES

A person who represents an agency or business that provides private funding for child care services, or who advocates for child care services through participation in civic or community based organizations but is not a child care provider or CDE funded agency representative.  

Steve Bryan - Siskiyou Community Resource Center Collaborative

Karen Pautz - First 5 Siskiyou/Quality Counts Siskiyou Executive Director

Carla Charaqa, Siskiyou Domestic Violence

DISCRETIONARY

Appointed from any of the above categories or outside of these categories at the discretion of the appointing agencies. 

Regina Weston - Student Equity Specialist, College of the Siskiyous

Margaret Hoaglen - Siskiyou Child Care Council, Weed

Vacancy