A group of Lawrence volunteers Wednesday said they would lead a Vote Yes for Lawrence Kids campaign in support of a $59 million public school bond issue.

Chuck Warner, president of US Bank, and Judy Wright, director of the Chancellor’s Club at Kansas University Endowment Association, will be chairmen of the group.

The Vote Yes steering committee:

• Karen Frick, site council member at South Junior High School. Her son attends South.
• Kevin Kennedy, site council chairman at Central Junior High School and environmental health specialist for Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Mo. His children attend Cordley School and Central.
• John Mitchell, site council member at Quail Run School and chief of waste compliance with Kansas Department of Health and Environment. His two children are at Quail Run, and his wife teaches at Deerfield School.
• John Rathbun, a site council member at South and vice president for sales at Cutler Repaving Inc., Lawrence. His wife is a first-grade teacher at Langston Hughes School.
• Jeannie Robinson, site council chairwoman at West Junior High School. She’s assistant director of facilities at Washburn University.
• Sarah Jane Russell, site council chairwoman at New York School and chairwoman of the school district’s equity council. She has two sons, a Lawrence High School graduate and a Free State High School junior.
• Ginger Wehner, general manager of KU Credit Union, will serve as treasurer of Vote Yes for Lawrence Kids.

l¢ Kirk Wiesner, site council chairman at Southwest Junior High School and director of CBIZ, a Topeka accounting firm.

• Mickey Woolard, an East Heights School teacher and parent of a former Lawrence Alternative High School student. His wife teaches at Woodlawn School.