(November 4)  While more than one hundred candidates for agency, district, municipal, county, state and federal government positions proved victorious Tuesday night after hard fought electoral battles against over 200 vanquished opponents, earlier that day 67 individuals were granted, upon the recommendation of the county registrar of voters and the unanimous concurrence of the board of supervisors, either two or four year terms to elected office without having to face an opponent.
The board made these appointments in lieu of election because no challengers had come forward to contest the elections.
San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters Michael Scarpello recommended that the board of supervisors “fill elective offices for various special districts in the November 4, 2014 Statewide General Election that are under the jurisdiction of the board of supervisors. This action is aligned with the board of supervisors’ county goals and objectives with respect to conducting efficient elections in a business-like manner that are compliant with the Elections Code, Administrative Code, and Education Code. The registrar of voters is making this request to appoint candidates because California Elections Code §10515 provides that the registrar of voters shall request that the supervising authority (board of supervisors) make these appointments at a meeting held prior to the Monday before the first Friday in December when the number of persons filing a declaration of candidacy for various offices was either equal to or fewer than the number of positions to be filled for those respective offices.”
Those given a ticket to elected office in this way were: Bob R. Tinsley for a two-year term on the Apple Valley Fire Protection District Board; Tamara Alaniz and John “Jay” Jeffs, each for four-year terms on the Apple Valley Fire Protection District; Philip M. Harris and Timothy Heiden each for four-year terms on the Barstow Community College District Board; Raymond Perea and Ben Rosenberg for four-year terms on the Barstow Unified School District Board; Gail McCarthy and Sara Russ for four-year terms on the Bear Valley Community Healthcare District Board; Robert C. “Bob” Ludecke for a four-year term on the Big Bear Municipal Water District Board Division 1; Terry Conaway for a four-year term on the Big River Community Services District Board; Judy McMenamon-Sands for a four-year term on the Big River Community Services District Board; Terry King for a four-year term on the Chino Basin Water Conservation District Board Division 1; Margaret Hamilton for a four-year term on the Chino Basin Water Conservation District Board  Division 3; Hanif Gulmahamad for a two-year term on the Chino Basin Water Conservation District Board Division; Geoffrey Vanden Heuvel for a four-year term on the Chino Basin Water Conservation District Board Division 7; Randall Ceniceros for a four-year term on the  Colton Joint Unified School District Board Area 1; Joanne E. Thoring-Ojeda for a four-year term on the Colton Joint Unified School District Board Area 1; Eva Kinsman and Elizabeth “Liz” Meyer for four-year terms on the Copper Mountain Community College District; Donald Cowan for a four-year term as the San Bernardino County representative on the County of Kern Area 7 Board; Mark Sumpter for a four-year term on the County of San Bernardino Special District Area A Board; Loren Burch and Tawney Burch for four-year terms on the East Kern Healthcare District Board; Herm Engelhardt, Frank M. Melendez and Barbara Schneider for four year-terms on the Helendale School District Board; Joseph P. Sullivan for a two-year term on the Hi-Desert Memorial Healthcare District Board; Steve Elie and Jasmin Hall for four-year terms on the Inland Empire Utilities Agency Board; Mark Storch for a four-year term on the Kern Community College District Board Area 2; Carmen Fox, James Harvey and Dawn D. Turnbull for four-year terms on the Lucerne Valley Unified School District Board; Jim Ventura, Mike Page and Beverly J. Lowry for four-year terms on the Mojave Water Agency Board; Philip L. Erwin and G. Michael Milhiser for four-year terms on the Monte Vista Water District Board; Ronald Thomas, Jr. for a two-year term on the Mt. Baldy Joint School District Board; Juanita Kovras for a two-year term on Muroc Joint Unified School District Area 2; Sherman Burkhead, Jr. for a four-year term on the Muroc Joint Unified School Board Area 3; Carl A. Ackermann and Joshua Garcia for four-year terms on the Oro Grande School District Board; Jerry M. Lewis for a four-year term on the Palo Verde Community College District Board;  Randy Lee Halgunseth, Pamela F. Keiser and John W. Kittell  for four-year terms on the Rand Communities Water District Board; Scott Markovich for a four-year term on the Rim of the World Unified School District Board Area 1; Theodore E. Melms for a two-year term on the Rubidoux Community Services District Board; Ruth Anderson Wilson and Forest F. Trowbridge for four-year terms on the Rubidoux Community Services District Board; Don Singer for a four-year term on the San Bernardino Community College District Board Area 4; Donna Ferracone for a four-year term on the San Bernardino Community College District Board Area 6; Keith J. Burkart, Cheryl A. Robinson and David M. Stern for four-year terms on the San Bernardino Mountains Community Hospital District Board; Ruth A. Chafin for a four-year term on the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District Board Division 3;
Brian Boatwright, Lynn McKee and Heather R. Reid for four year terms on the Silver Valley Unified School District Board; Christina Behringer, Steven “Mr. C” Coulombe and Karie La Fever for four-year terms on the Snowline Joint Unified School District Board; Ann Bashaw for a two-year term on the Snowline Joint Unified School District Board; Lisa A. Crosby for a two-year term on the Victor Valley Union High School District Board; and Bruce J. Granlund for a four-year term on the Yucaipa Valley Water District Board Division 2.