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Candidate filing period opens Monday for fall elections

Original post made on Jul 13, 2018

The candidate filing period for the Nov. 6 general election in San Mateo County opens next Monday, July 16, and closes at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, July 13, 2018, 9:30 AM

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Posted by Mark Dinan
a resident of another community
on Jul 13, 2018 at 1:01 pm

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East Palo Alto has City Council elections for two seats, and the Ravenswood School District has three seats open. Ravenswood School District includes Menlo Park, you might want to add that to your article!


Posted by Jack Hickey
a resident of Woodside: Emerald Hills
on Jul 15, 2018 at 4:31 pm

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Cline and Ohtaki are both in District 4. Only one councilmember will be in that district after the election. District 1(Belle Haven) will elect a new councilmember in November.


Posted by Jack Hickey
a resident of Woodside: Emerald Hills
on Jul 16, 2018 at 10:39 am

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Menlo Park election:
District's 1, 2 and 4 will each elect 1 councilmember.
See map: Web Link
Sequoia Healthcare District election:
Zone's A, C, and E will each elect 1 director.
Note: Zone A already has another director, Katie Kane, whose term expires in 2020. Minority Zone D has no director. The District decided to delay an election in Zone D until 2020. See: Web Link
See map: Web Link
Note: This map has not been finalized. It erroneously includes precinct 2611. See: Web Link Also, zone boundaries created by demographer Paul Mitchell using census tracts, has resulted in splitting of precincts on zone boundaries. This is currently being reconciled by the County Elections Department.

The resolution adopting the change from at-large to by zone elections, passed by the Sequoia Healthcare District Board of Directors on September 20, 2017, had a non-disturbance clause, which clearly sought to avoid such splitting of precincts. See: Web Link The cost of implementing the precinct splits will be billed to the District. IMHO, those costs should be borne by Hanson and Bridgett, outside counsel which hired the demographer.


Posted by Council Watcher
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jul 20, 2018 at 11:17 pm

The big question is whether Gail Slocum will pull papers to run in the District 2 City Council Election?


Posted by be kind
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jul 21, 2018 at 4:27 pm

@Council_Watcher, please get over it.


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