Nonpartisan · Iron County Board of Education

Adam Hahnfor our schools

District 6 · Cedar City, Utah

Iron County is growing faster than we are building. I have spent eight years on the Cedar City Planning Commission looking at those growth numbers. I want to put that to work for our students, our teachers, and the families paying for it.

Get a Yard Sign Where I Stand

Adam Hahn with his wife and five children on a ranch outside Cedar City, Utah. — Adam, Jen and the kids · Cedar City

Four dates that decide this race

Ballots mailMid-Oct Utah votes by mail. Watch your mailbox.

Election dayNov 3 Ballots must be received by 8 p.m.

On your ballotDistrict 6 Near the bottom. Board of Education.

Why I'm running

I know what it takes to build something and pay for it.

In Adam's own words, from his campaign announcement.

As a Navy veteran, a father of five, and the owner of Hahn Electrical Services, I understand the value of discipline, accountability, and service to others.

I have served eight years on the Cedar City Planning Commission and eight years on the Board of Directors of the Iron County Home Builders Association, including a term as president. These roles taught me the importance of careful planning, collaboration, and responsible decision-making on behalf of the community.

A graduate of Southern Utah University, I am committed to applying the same fiscal responsibility I practice in my business to the school board. I will work to ensure voters retain their right to have a voice in tax increases through ballot measures and uphold public trust through transparency in word and action. The board should focus on student outcomes rather than national trends, doing what is best for Iron County. I will help refine district policy so our students and staff have the tools necessary for success.

I welcome all questions and concerns as we head into this election season.

Adam Hahn · Cedar City, Utah

Photo 01 Adam at a doorstep

Vertical. Adam talking with a voter on a Cedar City porch, sleeves rolled, clipboard. Warm late-day light. This is the shot that sells the whole page.

Priorities

Five things I will work on, starting in January.

Not slogans. These are the decisions actually in front of this board over the next four years.

Growth & capacity

Plan for the students we already have.

A brand-new East Elementary opened close to capacity. Six elementary boundaries moved this fall and four more schools change in 2027. Southwest Education Academy still runs out of five portable buildings with a waiting list. This is not a surprise. It is a planning failure we can see coming five years out if someone is reading the numbers.

What I'll do: push the district to publish a rolling five-year enrollment and facilities forecast, tied to the same residential growth data the county and city planning commissions already use. If we know where the rooftops are going, we should not be redrawing boundaries in a panic.

Iron County grew from 57,289 residents in 2020 to an estimated 67,141 in 2025. Up 17% in five years.

Photo 02East Elementary

Exterior, wide. Buses or the pickup line if possible. Morning light.

Taxes & bonds

You get a vote on your own taxes.

The district raised property taxes in 2025 over public objection, then held rates flat in 2026. Two bonds have failed at the ballot in seven years. That is not voters being unreasonable. That is voters asking to be told the truth about what a project costs and what it actually delivers.

What I'll do: take major capital needs to the ballot with an honest number, a phased plan, and a clear answer to "what happens if this fails." Protect the taxpayer's right to vote on tax increases rather than routing around it.

The 2024 bond failed 56% to 44%. The 2018 bond failed. A district that cannot win a bond has a trust problem, not a math problem.

Photo 03Adam at his work truck

Hahn Electrical van, job site, hard hat. Proof he signs the front of a paycheck.

The four-day week

Make it work, or don't do it.

The board voted 4–3 in August to move to a four-day week beginning in 2027-28. I spoke at the public town halls in December 2025 and I said then what I will say as a board member: the schedule is not the goal. Student outcomes are the goal.

What I'll do: hold the district to a real implementation plan before the first short week. Friday childcare, meal access for the kids who count on school meals, support for the families the board itself acknowledged will struggle, and honest answers for teachers and bus drivers on pay and hours. And a measurement plan, so that when the state waiver comes up for renewal we can say whether this worked instead of guessing.

The waiver expires in three years. The district loses 8.22 instructional hours a year. We should know what we bought with them.

Photo 04A classroom in session

Teacher mid-lesson, students engaged. Get district permission and photo releases first.

Transparency

You shouldn't have to attend a Tuesday meeting to know what's happening.

The district's own September 2026 accreditation review found that communication between district leadership and parents about school improvement goals is not clear or consistent. That is an outside evaluator saying what a lot of parents already say in the pickup line.

What I'll do: a plain-language summary of every board meeting, published within 48 hours. What was decided, what it costs, and what it changes for your kid. I will also answer my own phone.

Photo 05Board meeting or town hall

Adam at the public comment microphone, or seated in the audience taking notes.

Students & staff

Iron County outcomes, not national politics.

Our graduation rate is 93.3%, better than the Utah average of 89.8%, and Cedar High and Canyon View both sit at 97.7%. That is our teachers doing good work under real constraints. Meanwhile we spend less per student than almost any district in the state.

What I'll do: keep the board's attention on the things that move outcomes here. Classroom tools, career and technical pathways, keeping good teachers. And off the fights being imported from somewhere else.

Iron County spends about $9,385 per student against a Utah median of $12,726. That is 38th of 41 districts. Our results are better than our funding.

Photo 06Canyon View or Cedar High

Front entrance with signage, or a Friday-night stadium shot. Iron County pride.

The record

Twenty years of showing up to public meetings.

Every credential here is attached to something this board actually has to do.

United States Navy

Discipline and accountability learned where the stakes were real, not theoretical.

Cedar City Planning Commission

Eight years, including service as chair. Growth projections, infrastructure phasing, and public comment from neighbors who disagree.

Iron County Home Builders Association

Eight years on the board of directors, including a term as president. He knows where the housing is going before the enrollment shows up.

Owner, Hahn Electrical Services

Signs the front of the paychecks. Budgets, bids and payroll in the same county economy the district operates in.

Southern Utah University

Graduate, and a lifelong neighbor of the institution that trains many of our teachers.

Father of five

Skin in the game. The decisions this board makes land at his own kitchen table.

By the numbers

The facts this seat is actually about.

Public data from the Utah State Board of Education, Iron County, and the district's own reporting.

93.3%Iron County graduation rate, 2025. The Utah average is 89.8%.

+17%Iron County population growth between 2020 and 2025.

2School bonds rejected by voters since 2018.

6Elementary boundaries redrawn for the fall of 2026.

38thOf 41 Utah districts in spending per student.

5Portable buildings still housing Southwest Education Academy.

Endorsement

Delegate Preferred Candidate, Iron County Republican Party

At the Iron County convention on April 17, 2026, with 295 of 318 delegates credentialed, District 6 delegates backed Adam by better than three to one: 203 votes to 71. School board races in Utah are nonpartisan, and this straw poll was advisory.

How to vote

Utah votes by mail. It takes about four minutes.

Every active registered voter in Iron County is mailed a ballot automatically. You do not need to request one.

1 Check your registration

Confirm your address at vote.utah.gov. The deadline to register and avoid a provisional ballot is October 23.

2 Watch for your ballot

Ballots go in the mail roughly three weeks before Election Day, around the middle of October.

3 Find District 6

Board of Education races sit near the bottom of the ballot. Look for Iron County School Board, District 6.

4 Sign it and send it

Your signature on the outside of the envelope is what makes it count. Mail it or use a county drop box. It must be received by 8 p.m. on November 3.

Get involved

Put a sign in your yard. Ask me a hard question.

This is a small county and a small race. A dozen neighbors talking to each other decides it. Tell me how you want to help, or just tell me what you think the board is getting wrong.