Some rural school districts struggling to find board trustees Devin Bodkin, IdahoEdNews.org Updated at Share This The city of Dubois | EastIdahoNews.com file photo BOISE — Lisa Shenton has spent years watching school board elections play out in the Clark County School District 161. If you can call them that. Often, no one runs, so trustees are left searching for people to apply. “Basically, it turns into begging,” said Shenton, a former trustee now working as the board’s clerk. A lack of candidates and applicants has been a longtime issue for the rural East Idaho district of some 120 students, said Shenton.