MORGAN HILL
– The effort to recall four of the Morgan Hill School Board
trustees has hit a slight snag, with notification from the
Registrar’s Office that one of the signatures was invalid.
One of the recall signers used a new address on the
petition.
MORGAN HILL – The effort to recall four of the Morgan Hill School Board trustees has hit a slight snag, with notification from the Registrar’s Office that one of the signatures was invalid.
One of the recall signers used a new address on the petition. The signer was a registered voter at another address.
“It’s negligible, we’re not concerned,” said Victoria Battison, Community Alliance for Responsible Education (CARE) spokeswoman.
Former Board President Tom Kinoshita, newly elected Board President George Panos and Trustees Del Foster and Jan Masuda were presented with recall notices just before the election of Panos as president and Trustee Shelle Thomas as vice president during the Dec. 15 board meeting. They will have to be re-served for the recall to move forward.
According to Shannon Buchey, election division coordinator for the Santa Clara County Registrar’s Office, CARE will have 120 days to gather signatures in support of its petition. CARE must gather at least 5,600 signatures.
It is too late to complete the process in order to put the recall on the March 2 ballot, Buchey said, so the recall would likely have to take place during a special election.
The delay with the recall petition because of the invalid signature will be approximately 10 to 14 days, Battison said.
