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VIDEO. From San Mateo County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 at 9:00am as a hybrid meeting. SMCo Supervisor’s Board agendas.
Staff Report for Consent Agenda Item #15
Adopt a resolution: A) Calling and providing for an election to submit to the qualified electors of the Pescadero Municipal Advisory Council, for their approval, a ballot measure reducing the membership of the Pescadero Municipal Advisory Council to five members elected at-large and providing for the initial election of council members in the reduced membership body; and B) Requesting that the election of the ballot measure be consolidated with the November 5, 2024 General Election.
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PMAC Councilmembers Rob Skinner and Taylor Allen, called in during Public Comment at the video timestamp of 20:15. They stated that they preferred a 7-member council, rather than the previously agreed upon 5 councilmembers. The number 5 had been agreed to at the PMAC meeting on 6/11/2024 where Supervisor Mueller and SMCo legal counsel was present.
This 6/11/2024 PMAC vote was reflected in the text of the SMCO BOS consent agenda item #15 (see above).
SMCo Attorney John Nebblin discusses the process to create a new resolution that would go from the PMAC’s previously agreed upon 5-member council to a 7-member PMAC for the November 2024 elections. Candidates will run at-large.
After the PMAC’s Skinner/Taylor public comments, District 3 Supervisor Ray Mueller pulled the #15 consent item and agendized the item for after the regular agenda which occurred at 30:00.
The agenda item #15 was heard after the regular agenda items at 4:36:44.
PMAC Election History
This history was provided on June 13th, 2022 by San Mateo County staff, Travis Dunn:
“I went ahead and took this all the way back to the PMAC’s formation in 1992. Please note when I talk about “qualified” candidates I mean only whether they have completed the candidate filing process and are therefore qualified to be a candidate in the legal sense. I also wanted to note that in some cases, the PMAC appointed members to vacant seats – since that’s a non-electoral process, our office does not have record of when those appointments happened. I’ve gone over the records the PMAC has available, but they are scant in some periods.”
The PMAC has 13 seats. District 1 has six seats. District 2 has two seats. District 3 has two seats. District 4 has 2 seats. There is one At-Large seat.
In 1992, the PMAC was created with 13 initial members. In District 1, they were Patricia Carr, John W. Dixon, Velia Garcia, Meredith Reynolds, Kurt M. Jensen, and Chris Brancart. District 2 was Tim Hudson and Maeva Maria Neale. District 3 was Gaston “Gas” Periat and Kurt B. Jacobsen. District 4 was Allison Jackson – no other qualified candidates. At-Large seat [“District 5”] was Alice E. Partanen.
In 1994, Curt Dias was elected to District 1, Meredith Reynolds also to District 1, and Maeva M. Neale (sometimes misspelled as Haeva M. Neale) to District 2. Both Robert L. Carpenter and Victor T. Subbotin are referred to on the ballot as Appointed Incumbents, PMAC records do not reflect the date of these appointments.
In 1996 only two candidates went to ballot, Gaston “Gas” Periat (320 votes) against Jeannine Clark-Gananian (163). No district was indicated on the ballot, so I’ve made the assumption that this was for District 3 re-election. John B. Nowland was the only candidate for District 4, and Tim Hudson the only candidate for District 2. Both James F. Schweichert, Sr. and Larry Walsh were the only qualified candidates for separate District 1 seats. Mr. Nowland, Mr. Schweichert, and Mr. Walsh are all indicated in our forms as incumbents, but no previous record of these parties holding positions on the PMAC appeared in our files.
In 1998 there were a number of candidates running for District 1’s three open seats. John W. Dixon, Herb Hamor, and Geoffrey H. Allen won. Qualified candidates who did not have to face election were Maeva Maria Neale (District 2), Lary Lawson (District 3), Meg DeLano (District 4), and Beverly Fields (District 4).
In 2000, Steve D. Simms, Linda “Sam” O’Sullivan, and Irma Rodriquez Mitton won the three open District 1 seats. Qualified candidates who did not have to face election were Tim Hudson (District 2), Carol F. Simon (District 3), John C. Donovan (District 4), and Meredith Reynolds (At Large).
The 2000 election was PMAC’s last. At no time since then has more than one person filed as a candidate for any seat, so no seat has gone on the ballot. Every qualified candidate took their seat automatically.
In 2002, Only Catherine Peery qualified as a candidate.
In 2004, the qualified candidates were Paisley Nash-Dooley (Dist. 4, Non-Incumbent), Eugenia Silva (Dist. 1, Non-Incumbent), Chris Trailer (Dist. 3, Non-Incumbent) and Donald McDermott (At-Large, Non-Incumbent). In August, Pattie Brixen was appointed to fill the remainder of John Dixon’s term.
In 2006, three qualified candidates, Pattie Brixen, Jackson Robertson, and Catherine Peery.
In 2008, Don McDermott was elected to another four-year term, for the At-Large district. No other candidates. Ed Dee resigned and was replaced by Rob Skinner.
In 2010, there were 4 qualified candidates. Kim “Jake” Bowman (Non-Incumbent, District 4), Rob Skinner (Incumbent, District 1), Carolyn Shade (Non-Incumbent, District 1), and Catherine Peery (Incumbent, District 3).
In 2012, the only qualified candidate was Donald McDermott, for the At-Large seat.
In 2014, the qualified candidates were Rob Skinner, Carolyn L. Shade, Kenneth Pesso, David LoCoco, and Michael Polacek.
In 2016, the only qualified candidate was Nicholas Erridge for District 1.
Between 2016 and 2018, Heather Gibbon, Casey Dunn and Monica Ventrice were appointed by PMAC to vacant seats.
In 2018, the only qualified candidate was Rob Skinner for District 1.
Pescadero Municipal Advisory Council, for the First Time, Heads for At-Large Elections on the Ballot for the November 2024 Elections
PODCAST. From KPDO (& KZSG’s) Catherine Peery with Pescadero Municipal Advisory Council (PMAC) councilmember, Patrick Horn. (10 minutes).
PMAC Members (last updated June 2024)
Patrick Horn
Rob Skinner, Corresponding Secretary
Kassandra Talbot, Vice Chair
Bonnie Ulrick
Mark Wallace, Chair
Pescadero Municipal Advisory Council is Excited About their Housing Future as San Mateo County Includes Rural Labor Housing Study and Community Plan Assessment
2024 Election
The 2024 Board of Supervisors, from left: Ray Mueller (D3), Noelia Corzo (D2), Warren Slocum (D4, BOS President), David J. Canepa (D5, BOS Vice President) and Dave Pine (D1, outgoing BOS President).
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