Only three people filed for four Austin Public School Board seats as of Wednesday afternoon, and there is less than a week until the filing deadline closes for the November election.

Kathy Green, Don Fox and Angie Goetz have filed to run for election this November. Green and Fox are running for re-election while Goetz, a first-time candidate, hopes to gain one of the four seats up for grabs. School board filing will end May 31.

“I’m excited about our district and just want to be a part (of it),” Goetz said. “I have a vested interest, that’s for sure.”

Goetz, a property manager at Western Manor Apartments, has lived in Austin for 13 years and has three children, one a preschooler and the others Sumner Elementary School students. Goetz said although she’ll have to catch up on school policy issues, she’s focused on making Austin schools the best it can be. She also supports the potential new school and renovations at Woodson Kindergarten Center, which board members have discussed for the past two months.

“I think the idea of having a 5-6 grade building is fantastic,” she said. “I know that it’s an investment for our community to make but I think it’s a worthy investment.”

Green is a longtime board member and ran for state representative of District 27A last November. Fox, a former principal at Southgate Elementary School, has also been on the board for several years.

“With the new school and everything else that’s going on, I want to be a part of it,” Fox said. Aside from the new school, Fox hopes to see a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) program started at a new 5-6 school.

David Ruzek and Diane Wangsness are the other members whose seats are up for reelection. Ruzek, who was appointed to the board last September after board members kicked former member Curt Rude out in March 2010, has maintained that he will not seek reelection since he started.

“I’m retired. My wife and I, we just want the flexibility to come and go as we’d like,” said Ruzek. “I was fully aware when I volunteered that there’s a commitment. I’m just not interested in doing it for another three years, assuming that I’d get re-elected.”

Calls made to Green and Wangsness were not immediately returned. It is unknown if Wangsness intends to file.