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These are some of the most arcane of the special boards.
Sewer District Boards
Rossmoor/Los Alamitos Area Sewer Dist
Three seats are up. The incumbents are Van Jew, James Bell, and William C Poe.
Van Jew has qualified for the ballot.
Jim Bell has pulled mild papers.
Paul Liles pinged and maybe a tad more.
Looks like this will probably go into overtime.
Costa Mesa Sanitary District
Div. 2
Incumbent James Ferryman will face Brett Eckles.
Div. 4
Incumbent Art Perry will face Michelle Figuerdo-Wilson.
Midway City Sanitary District
Two open seats. Five candidates qualified — and you’ll want to read this one all of the way to the end.
- Incumbent Chi Charlie Nguyen has qualified. The other position is vacant and doesn’t count.
- Tai Do has qualified
- Ashton Roger Kauwe has qualified
- Jameson Power has qualified
- Tyler Diep has qualified. He’s baaa-aaack!
Sunset Beach Sanitary District
Graham Hoad, Jon Regnier, and John Woods are listed as the elected incumbents.
- Jon Regnier has qualified
- John Woods has qualified
- Graham Hoad has qualified
- David Evans has qualified with the ballot designation “Appointed Director, Sunset Beach Sanitary District”
- The ROV lists a short-term seat as going into an extension, but this is a full-term seat and I don’t see anything about such a seat on the report.
- It looks like all four people are running for the three spots claiming to be incumbents.
- I don’t have time for this.
Environmental Districts
Surfside Colony Storm Water Protection Dist
Two open seats. This is in an extension because one incumbent, Stephen Rowe, didn’t file.
- Linda Garofalo has qualified.
- No one else has.
Santiago Geo Hazard Abatement District, Full Term
Two open seats. Incumbent Craig Schill has qualified, but incumbent Kay Dabbs-Moyer did not file, so this is in an AEIOU extension.
James Guziak has also qualified.
No one else has even pinged. This must be the worst board to serve on in the county.
Silverado-Modjeska, Recreation and Park District
Neither of the incumbents filed, so this goes into an AEIOU extension. Celeste Veerkamp has qualified and no one else has.
Library Districts
Buena Park Library District
Three seats; no extension. Irene Castaneda, Dennis Salts, and Patricia Ganer are the incumbents. All have qualified, as has L. Carole Jensen.
Placentia Library District
Three seats open. Richard DeVecchio, Elizabeth Minter, and Gayle Carline are the incumbents
- Gayle Carline has qualified
- Hilaire Shioura has qualified
This will go into an AEIOU extension.
What exactly is the purpose of these specific boards ? Geological Hazard Abatement ? A board just for one library ?
Seems like it would be just easier to make them a commission under the city council jurisdiction.
That suggestion has been made. But:
The Santiago Canyon area probably needs its Geological Abatement Board to make tough decisions that the locals shouldn’t have to leave to the Supervisors, who wouldn’t focus well on it.
My guess is that Buena Park and Placentia may have wanted to inure their libraries from politics or public opinion. Libraries are often a locus of political cultural wars — what to buy or display, what to boycott or censor, what meetings to allow and when, how much to save and spend — and city councils are often eager to roll over to the popular will. I’m not sure that it’s a bad idea. (Could be wrong about this, though!) I wonder if they come with their own taxing authority.
That’s interesting. I can see the water boards because there is a lot of money spent on infrastructure projects which can be quite costly, but never would have expected a separate board for a library.
When I was looking at one water board member’s background I noticed he was a “consultant” for a company for a lot of public policies yet is currently serving on the board. This may be one of those “conflict of interests” that have to be disclosed on the 700, but probably still legal.
Another candidate for city council worked for a medical company trying to procure a mask purchase from the city, and is also running as well.
Good research. I think that we should deputize you.
Library Boards have to do with taxation.
Special districts are funded directly by the taxpayer. Municipal libraries compete for funds with every other general fund obligation.
I’ll spare you the details, but having total separation from the Council and their nonsense is a very good thing.
Alex — Ryan was a member (Chair?) of the Fullerton Library Board (or whatever it was called), and he can probably point you to at least one story here on it.
I’ll take a look. Admittedly I don’t know what they specifically do, but i am genuinely interested so I’ll look more into it this weekend.
It is hard to find local news coverage that is frequently updated and has detail so I enjoy reading all the posts here.
Thank you! It’s hard to produce one.
Feel free to email or call with questions.
Speaking of Library Boards: hey, Ryan Cantor, did you read this in the VOC?
https://voiceofoc.org/2020/08/fullertons-hunt-library-gets-a-new-life-will-its-biggest-champions-be-a-part-of-it/
Yes, he posted it on Facebook and thanked Sharon.
I did.
A lot of people put a lot of work in to make it happen. Still a ways to go, but Fullerton should be on the downslope to finishing with something very positive.
I’m sure most people will never, thankfully, understand how ugly this issue became. Of the reasons I hate local politics, this is at the very top.