Now is the time to start preparing if you’re considering to run for office in the near future. In November 2009, a number of jurisdictions are scheduled to hold an election per our previous blog post.
If you are interested in serving on a board, get your campaign ready by checking out related deadlines and requirements. Our website, www.shapethefuture.org, contains a plethora of resources for potential candidates including campaign filing requirements, city clerk contact information, instructions for filing arguments and rebuttals, and how to get voter data.
You may also want to get to know your elected officials and jurisdictions and read up on their charters, codes, election cycle info, and meeting dates and times. Our Decision Makers guide is a publication we produce that frames
four sections: (1) a list of elective districts, organized by role and level of government;
(2) for each district and official, detailed contact information and terms of office; (3) a
“finder” list of officials’ names, with associated district; and (4) a chart of regularly
scheduled elections. An online version of this guide can be found at http://www.shapethefuture.org/elections/elec_officials/default.asp.
Contact Lupe Sanchez, our Candidate Filing Officer, at lsanchez@smcare.org if you have any questions or concerns about candidate and measure filing.
