Lupe Sanchez, our filing officer, is the go-to person for all things filing related.
Persons interested in running as candidates for open seats, jurisdictions interested in holding elections, and officials and committees continuing in active status would contact Lupe to submit required paperwork and gather information about pending deadlines.
Lupe can be reached at 650-312-5293 or lsanchez@smcare.org.
Lately, our office has been the recipient of visits from various committees who are all trying to meet the deadline to submit their semi-annual 460s (Campaign Finance Statement Disclosures). Lupe’s been busy ensuring that their paperwork is fully complete, signed by the correct persons, date stamped, and filed by our office.
She’s also been getting calls from various jurisdictions inquiring about possible upcoming election dates and costs. Elections Code 1500 states that the first Tuesday following the first Monday in May of all years is a designated date for all-mail ballot elections. The deadline to submit a resolution to conduct an election in May is Feb. 6 at 5 p.m.
Unless the state calls for a special election for the budget, May 5 is the earliest possible date for an election this year.
Right now, the only confirmed election is scheduled for Nov. 3. For more information about the election in November, read our previous post.
Want more information about the Elections Code, which outlines our procedures listed above? Visit the online Elections Code reference site at http://tinyurl.com/7zf2ka.
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.
The candidate filing period closes closed Aug. 8 for persons wishing to run for any of the 48 available seats up for election during the Nov. 4 Presidential General Election.
As of close of business on Aug. 7, 40 candidates have filed to run for the various school and special district seats. The Roster of Candidates can be found on ShapetheFuture.org where it can be viewed and printed in PDF format.
You may notice that some of the candidates listed on the Roster do not have a check mark next to his/her name. The check mark indicates that the candidate has qualified to be placed on the ballot. So how can other names be listed on the Roster, you ask?
The Roster is meant to be a working list. Potential candidates at various stages of the filing process are listed on the Roster with the filing status listed after the person’s respective contact information.
At the footer of the document is a legend, copied below in bold for your resource:
Legend: DCI=Declaration of Candidacy Issued; DCF=Declaration of Candidacy Filed; NOMI=Nomination Papers Issued; NOMF=Nomination Papers Filed. 
= Candidate Qualified for Ballot
Thirty additional Candidate Guides were printed on Tuesday to replenish the rapidly diminishing supply being distributed to potential candidates for the 48 available seats up for election during the Nov. 4 Presidential General.
Twenty-six people have completed the almost hour-long process of paperwork as of July 30, and are now listed on the Roster of Candidates published on www.shapethefuture.org. This roster includes candidate names and any contact information provided by the candidate, and is organized by office type then district. For example, “School District Offices” is the first category listed on the Roster, with subheadings containing the name of districts where seats are available, the number of seats open in that district, and the term length.
So how does someone that wants to run for office become a candidate? Candidate Filing Officer Lupe Sanchez has the responsibility of walking candidates through the required documents.
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The “brrng brrng!” and “ding ding!” of phone calls and emails fill our office, which has been silenced into a quiet buzz in anticipation of the upcoming November Presidential Election.
Right now, some important items on our agenda include 1) scheduling, 2) candidate filing, 3) voter registration, and 4) Sample Ballot & Voter Information Pamphlet preparation.
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