Aerial view of Markham Middle School and the surrounding Placerville community

Placerville Union School District Board · 2026

Strong Schools.
Proven Leadership.

Educators, staff, families, and students power strong schools. Trustees earn trust through decisive public governance, disciplined stewardship, and relentless accountability.

Chris J. Belmer · Misty diVittorio · Katharine “Katie” Stabler Follow the record

The Governing Standard

Proven leadership protects strong schools.

Strong Schools

Academic growth, student support, staff capacity, financial stewardship, stability, and community trust define strong schools.

Proven Leadership

Public votes, firm policy, vigilant oversight, tested judgment, decisive adaptation, and transparent reporting prove leadership.

Students Gained Ground

PUSD delivers measurable strength for students.

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PUSD Students Outlearn Matched Districts

PUSD students gained 0.99 grade levels per year, outpacing matched California districts by 18%.

Stanford’s 2022–25 comparison estimates annual PUSD learning at 0.99 grade levels, compared with 0.84 in matched California districts and 0.98 statewide. Louisiana Schnell’s Dual Immersion Program develops bilingualism, biliteracy, sociocultural competence, and communication in English and Spanish through fifth grade.

Stanford reports annual learning growth separately from proficiency. Its report tracks a 2019 national benchmark and recent trends. California reports 2024–25 proficiency separately. The district page states the Dual Immersion Program’s aims; it does not report measured outcomes.

Public record2024–25 CAASPP Results: Placerville Union Elementary · 2024–25 California Statewide Assessment Results · Stanford Education Data Archive: Trends in PUSD Academic Performance · PUSD Dual Immersion Program, Louisiana Schnell Elementary School

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Public Oversight Protected Classroom Readiness

Measure B put working technology in students’ hands on day one of distance learning.

Measure B funded classroom equipment, Chromebooks, connectivity, infrastructure, server protection, and classroom cameras. District employees distributed Chromebooks on the first day of pandemic distance learning.

Voters authorized the bond. District employees implemented the work. Public inventories track equipment condition and replacement funding. The board governed the voter-authorized investment through public oversight and required audits.

Public recordNovember 3, 2015 PUSD Measure B Election Results · Measure B: Meeting Technology Needs at PUSD Schools · Measure B Building Fund Independent Audit, FY 2022–23 · PUSD Measure B Oversight Report, 2018–20 · PUSD 2025–26 Local Control and Accountability Plan

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PUSD Serves the Whole Child

PUSD extended learning beyond the school day, delivering scholarships, transportation, tutoring, and summer learning to qualifying students.

PUSD’s 2024–25 Expanded Learning Opportunities Program documented scholarships, transportation, tutoring, academic support, enrichment, summer learning, nutritious snacks, and trained supervision for qualifying TK–6 students. The Family Resource Center connects McKinney-Vento and foster students’ families with community resources and provides essential items that support students’ emotional, social, and academic needs.

District staff, teachers, paraprofessionals, the Boys & Girls Club, EDCOE Extended Day, families, and community partners deliver these services. The published pages document services and access, not participation or outcome totals.

Public recordCare Solace Mental-Health Navigation · PUSD Family Resource Center · Youth Emergency Food Pantry · 2026 School Supply Committee · PUSD Expanded Learning Opportunities Program Brochure, 2024–25

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PUSD Secured Resources Beyond the Classroom

PUSD secured $438,556 in outside awards for three bus replacements, reducing pressure on local resources.

County records list three PUSD bus-replacement awards under agreements dated 2016, 2018, and 2023. $438,556 represents the total award value. Separate records report expenditures, savings, and emissions results.

Public recordEl Dorado County AQMD Grant Recipients

Decisions That Delivered

These trustees lead—and the public record proves it.

Trustees set direction, authorize resources, demand oversight, and answer to the public. District employees turn those decisions into daily results.

Experience Behind Every Vote

Chris, Misty, and Katie have earned your vote.

Board Vice President

Chris J. Belmer

Chris has served PUSD since 2012. In 2014, she seconded and approved preparedness plans for every school, transportation, and the district office.

The county school boards association recognized her boardsmanship. The California School Boards Association selected her for its 2024 Small School District Advisory Workgroup.

Trustee and Regional Delegate

Misty diVittorio

Misty serves PUSD and represents Region 6, Subregion C as a California School Boards Association delegate.

As a 2025 Golden Bell validation participant, she evaluated school programs across academics, staffing, technology, and accountability.

Trustee and Former Classroom Volunteer

Katharine “Katie” Stabler

Katie volunteered in district classrooms and Parent Club activities before joining the board in 2014. At her first recorded meeting, she moved to approve districtwide preparedness plans.

Her governing test is practical: PUSD must be able to implement what it approves, sustain the cost, and show the result.

Keep Excellence Working

PUSD cannot afford to lose the leadership that secured these victories.

Reelect all three trustees to protect the experience, public accountability, and steady judgment behind PUSD’s record.

Keep the knowledge PUSD earned.

Chris, Misty, and Katie governed through changing enrollment, staffing pressure, academic disruption, technology demands, and evolving state requirements. That experience lets them recognize risk, ask sharper questions, and judge which decisions PUSD can sustain.

Keep the relationships that move PUSD forward.

Years of public service built working relationships with educators, staff, families, district leaders, county partners, and statewide school-board networks. Those relationships strengthen honest deliberation, bring wider knowledge into local decisions, and keep PUSD represented beyond Placerville.

Keep disciplined oversight on every decision.

Their record includes districtwide preparedness, voter-authorized technology oversight, transparent disruption planning, staffing action, whole-child partnerships, and outside transportation awards. Reelecting all three keeps tested judgment accountable to the public and working for every PUSD student.

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Keep tested judgment at work

Years of governing through enrollment pressure, staffing needs, academic disruption, and changing state requirements sharpened their judgment.

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Keep trusted relationships working for PUSD

Trustees work with district leaders, educators, staff, families, and community organizations to solve difficult problems.

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Protect disciplined public stewardship

Trustees govern technology, emergency readiness, student support, transportation investments, and staffing decisions through public processes and documented oversight.

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Choose proven continuity

Reelecting the Placerville 3 preserves institutional knowledge, statewide relationships, and disciplined governance.

Public Records Behind Every Victory

Every victory rests on a recoverable public record.

The Placerville 3 for Strong Schools

Protect strong schools. Reelect proven leadership.

Reelect the Placerville 3 — Chris, Misty, and Katie. Keep tested judgment and disciplined governance working for every PUSD student.

Vote Chris. Vote Misty. Vote Katie.

The Placerville 3 for Strong Schools

Chris, Misty, and Katie turned experience into stronger governance.

Whole-child expertise, regional advocacy, practical stewardship, and decades of public service strengthened the decisions that protect PUSD students.

Chris J. Belmer, Misty diVittorio, and Katharine Katie Stabler together

The Placerville 3

Board Vice President

Chris J. Belmer

“I put decades of service to children and families behind every board decision. I bring whole-child expertise, classroom and parent leadership, and more than a decade of proven governance to PUSD. I will keep that experience working for students, educators, and staff. Strong Schools. Proven Leadership.”

Chris has lived in El Dorado County since February 2000. While her children attended PUSD, she served on the Louisiana Schnell School Site Council, joined parent clubs at Schnell and Markham, and volunteered in classrooms. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker, she has provided school- and clinic-based mental-health services to children and families, represented schools on the El Dorado County School Attendance Review Board, and served children and educators through the El Dorado County Office of Education Special Services Department. Her social-services career also includes child protective services, family support, transition-age youth life-skills training, and community-college teaching. She joined the PUSD Board on November 4, 2012.

Chris has served PUSD since 2012. In 2014, she seconded and approved preparedness plans for every school, transportation, and the district office. The county school boards association recognized her boardsmanship. The California School Boards Association selected her for its 2024 Small School District Advisory Workgroup.

Public record: Placerville Union School District Governing Board · El Dorado County School Boards and Community Members Recognized · CSBA Small School District Advisory Workgroup · PUSD Regular Board Meeting, October 15, 2014

Chris brings whole-child expertise and tested judgment to every vote.

Chris has worked with children and families as a parent leader, classroom volunteer, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, attendance-review representative, county education employee, and trustee. That range matters in governance: she can test a proposal against classroom realities, family needs, student well-being, staffing demands, and the district’s duty to sustain the work. Since joining the board in 2012, she has applied that judgment to public decisions including districtwide emergency preparedness. PUSD keeps a leader who understands the whole child and knows how board action reaches the classroom.

PUSD parent, classroom volunteer, and School Site Council member
Licensed Clinical Social Worker serving children and families
PUSD trustee since November 4, 2012

Keep this experience working for PUSD. Vote Chris J. Belmer.

Trustee and Regional Delegate

Misty diVittorio

“I raised six PUSD students and have devoted fifteen years to governing the district that educated them. Classroom service, education work across local schools, countywide collaboration, and statewide leadership sharpen the judgment I bring to every board decision. I will keep that experience working for PUSD. Strong Schools. Proven Leadership.”

Misty raised six children who attended PUSD and volunteered in their classrooms. Her education work includes substitute teaching across El Dorado County, leading after-school enrichment in eleven schools, coordinating a Career Technical Education grant at Folsom Lake College, and coordinating a Partners in Learning program at Gold Oak School. She represents Placerville on the El Dorado County School Boards Association and serves as a delegate to the California School Boards Association, connecting PUSD with countywide and statewide school-board work.

Misty serves PUSD and represents Region 6, Subregion C as a California School Boards Association delegate. As a 2025 Golden Bell validation participant, she evaluated school programs across academics, staffing, technology, and accountability.

Public record: Placerville Union School District Governing Board · California School Boards Association Region 6 Detail · California School Boards Association Golden Bell Awards 2025

Misty gives PUSD an experienced voice in county and state leadership.

Misty raised six PUSD students, volunteered in their classrooms, and worked across local education in substitute teaching, after-school enrichment, career technical education, and school partnership programs. Fifteen years of board service added deep knowledge of PUSD’s people, history, and public responsibilities. Her county association service and California School Boards Association delegate role bring PUSD into wider policy conversations while carrying local priorities beyond the district. PUSD keeps an experienced advocate whose judgment begins in Placerville and reaches decision-makers across the region and state.

Parent of six PUSD students and classroom volunteer
Education work across schools, enrichment, and career preparation
County and California school-board representation

Keep this experience working for PUSD. Vote Misty diVittorio.

Trustee and Former Classroom Volunteer

Katharine “Katie” Stabler

“I carried weekly classroom and Parent Club service onto the board in 2014. Running a long-standing family business strengthens the practical discipline I bring to every public decision: understand the need, weigh the cost, and sustain what serves students. I will keep that discipline working for PUSD. Strong Schools. Proven Leadership.”

Katie began volunteering in PUSD classrooms and at Parent Club events in 2010 while her nephews attended district schools. She joined the board on October 15, 2014, extending that service through public governance. A graduate of California State University, Sacramento with a Bachelor of Arts in History, she moved to Placerville in 2009 and works in her family’s locally owned appliance business, founded in 1947.

Katie volunteered in district classrooms and Parent Club activities before joining the board in 2014. At her first recorded meeting, she moved to approve districtwide preparedness plans. Her governing test is practical: PUSD must be able to implement what it approves, sustain the cost, and show the result.

Public record: Placerville Union School District Governing Board · PUSD Regular Board Meeting, October 15, 2014

Katie demands practical decisions PUSD can sustain.

Katie began serving PUSD through weekly classroom and Parent Club work before joining the board in 2014. She pairs that direct school experience with the discipline of operating a long-standing local family business: understand the need, weigh the cost, authorize a workable course, and sustain it. At her first recorded board meeting, she moved approval of preparedness plans covering every school, transportation, and the district office. PUSD keeps a trustee who turns community knowledge into practical, accountable public decisions.

Weekly PUSD classroom and Parent Club volunteer
PUSD trustee since October 15, 2014
Practical stewardship shaped by a long-standing family business

Keep this experience working for PUSD. Vote Katharine “Katie” Stabler.

Protect strong schools. Reelect proven leadership.

Vote Chris. Vote Misty. Vote Katie.

PUSD Victories

Experienced governance delivered results students can use.

PUSD students outlearned matched districts. Public oversight protected classroom readiness. Whole-child partnerships removed barriers. Outside awards strengthened transportation.

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Academic Growth

PUSD students gained 0.99 grade levels per year, outpacing matched California districts by 18%.

Defend instructional strength. Measure student learning honestly. Expand proven academic opportunity.

Stanford estimates PUSD students gained 0.99 grade levels per year from 2022–25, compared with 0.84 in matched California districts and 0.98 statewide. Louisiana Schnell’s Dual Immersion Program develops bilingualism, biliteracy, and communication in English and Spanish through fifth grade.

Public record2024–25 CAASPP Results: Placerville Union Elementary · 2024–25 California Statewide Assessment Results · Stanford Education Data Archive: Trends in PUSD Academic Performance · PUSD Dual Immersion Program, Louisiana Schnell Elementary School

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Classroom Capacity

Public oversight turned Measure B into classroom capacity that was ready on the first day of distance learning.

Protect voter-approved investments through audits, inventories, and relentless public oversight.

Measure B equipped classrooms with devices, connectivity, infrastructure, and server protection. Voters authorized the investment; trustees required public oversight and audits; district employees converted those resources into working classroom capacity and distributed Chromebooks on the first day of pandemic distance learning.

Public recordNovember 3, 2015 PUSD Measure B Election Results · Measure B: Meeting Technology Needs at PUSD Schools · Measure B Building Fund Independent Audit, FY 2022–23 · PUSD Measure B Oversight Report, 2018–20 · PUSD 2025–26 Local Control and Accountability Plan

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Whole-Child Support

PUSD built whole-child support that reaches students beyond the school day and beyond the classroom.

Strengthen the partnerships that deliver practical support to students and families.

PUSD’s expanded-learning program documents scholarships, transportation, tutoring, enrichment, summer learning, healthy choices, and trained supervision. The Family Resource Center connects McKinney-Vento and foster students’ families with community resources and essential items.

Public recordCare Solace Mental-Health Navigation · PUSD Family Resource Center · Youth Emergency Food Pantry · 2026 School Supply Committee · PUSD Expanded Learning Opportunities Program Brochure, 2024–25

04

Fiscal and Operational Stewardship

PUSD secured $438,556 in outside bus-replacement awards, stretching local resources further.

Guard every public dollar and secure outside resources for district needs.

County records list three PUSD bus-replacement awards totaling $438,556 under agreements dated 2016, 2018, and 2023. The figure represents award value, not claimed savings.

Public recordEl Dorado County AQMD Grant Recipients

Six Goals Adopted March 8, 2023

The board put every Vision and Legacy goal to work.

The board set a demanding standard: high expectations, strong schools, and bright futures. Its public record proves sustained action across every goal.

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High Expectations

Improved performance and readiness for high school and beyond

The board adopted the Vision and Legacy standard in 2023. Stanford’s 2022–25 analysis estimates PUSD students gained 0.99 grade levels per year, compared with 0.84 in matched California districts and 0.98 statewide.

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Prepared, Supported Students

Whole-child support, inclusion, and lifelong learning

PUSD’s 2024–25 expanded-learning program offered qualifying TK–6 students scholarships, transportation, research-based tutoring, enrichment, summer learning, nutritious snacks, and trained supervision.

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Strong Schools

Safe, current facilities and innovative programs

The board approved preparedness plans for every school, transportation, and the district office. Public Measure B oversight records document classroom technology, connectivity, infrastructure, and server protection.

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Dedicated Staff

A desirable place to work and learn

In 2023, the board adopted a $200 preferred full-day substitute rate after five successful district workdays, with automatic eligibility for retired teachers.

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Responsible Stewardship

Fiscal solvency and environmental sustainability

The board governed Measure B through public oversight and required audits. County records list three PUSD bus-replacement awards totaling $438,556 under agreements dated 2016, 2018, and 2023.

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Responsive Leadership

Partnership, recognition, and leadership responsive to district challenges

Chris Belmer earned county boardsmanship recognition and a place on CSBA’s 2024 Small School District Advisory Workgroup. Misty diVittorio serves as a CSBA regional delegate. Katie Stabler brings classroom and family experience to practical board decisions.

Four Consequential Decisions

They protected campuses, classrooms, continuity, and public trust.

Keep the Record Working

The record is strong. The leadership is proven. Vote the Placerville 3.

Vote Chris. Vote Misty. Vote Katie.

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Placerville Union School District Board · 2026

Reelect proven leadership.

Three tested trustees unite behind one mission: protect strong schools and keep proven leadership working for PUSD.

The Placerville 3 for Strong Schools · Chris J. Belmer · Misty diVittorio · Katharine “Katie” Stabler

The Governing Victory

Proven leadership protects PUSD excellence.

01

PUSD students outlearn matched districts

PUSD students gained 0.99 grade levels per year, outpacing matched California districts by 18%.

02

Public oversight protected classroom readiness

Measure B put working technology in students’ hands on day one of distance learning.

03

PUSD serves the whole child

PUSD extended learning beyond the school day, delivering scholarships, transportation, tutoring, and summer learning to qualifying students.

04

PUSD secured resources beyond the classroom

PUSD secured $438,556 in outside awards for three bus replacements, reducing pressure on local resources.

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Build public support on confirmed trust.

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Keep These Victories Working