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Fullerton School District elections (2014)

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2014 Fullerton School District Elections

General Election date:
November 4, 2014
Table of Contents
About the district
Method of election
Elections
Key deadlines
Additional elections
External links
See also
California
Fullerton School District
Orange County, California ballot measures
Local ballot measures, California
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Three seats on the Fullerton School District Board of Trustees were up for general election on November 4, 2014. Three at-large incumbents, Janny Meyer, Chris Thompson and Beverly Berryman, were up for re-election.[1][2] All three ran unopposed and won re-election by default. [3]

About the district

See also: Fullerton School District, California
Fullerton School District is located in Orange County, California.

Fullerton School District is located in Orange County, California. The county seat of Orange County is Santa Ana. Orange County was home to 3,114,363 residents in 2013, according to the United States Census Bureau.[4] In the 2011-2012 school year, Fullerton School District was the 119th-largest school district by enrollment in California and served 13,656 students.[5]

Demographics

Orange County outperformed the rest of California in terms of higher education achievement in 2012. The United States Census Bureau found that 36.6 percent of Orange County residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree compared to 30.5 percent for California as a whole. The median household income for Orange County was $75,566 compared to $61,400 for the entire state. The percentage of people below poverty level for Orange County was 11.7 percent while it was 15.3 percent statewide.[4]

Racial Demographics, 2013[4]
Race Orange County (%) California (%)
White 74.1 73.5
Black or African American 2.1 6.6
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1 1.7
Asian 19.2 14.1
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 0.4 0.5
Two or more races 3.2 3.7
Hispanic or Latino 34.2 38.4

Presidential Voting Pattern, Orange County[6]
Year Democratic Vote Republican Vote
2012 512,440 582,332
2008 549,558 579,064
2004 419,239 641,832
2000 391,819 541,299

Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

Voter and candidate information

The Fullerton School District Board of Trustees consists of five members elected at large to four-year terms. There was no primary election, and the general election was held on November 4, 2014. Three seats were up for election in 2014, and two seats will be up for election in 2016.[1][2]

School board candidates had to file with their county elections department during the candidate filing period. The filing period began July 14, 2014, and ended August 8, 2014. To vote in the 2014 general election, voters had to register by October 20, 2014. Voters could request vote-by-mail ballots from October 6, 2014, through October 28, 2014.[7]

Elections

2014

Candidates

At-large
  • Beverly Berryman Green check mark transparent.png
    • Incumbent
  • Janny Meyer Green check mark transparent.png
    • Incumbent
    • Graduate, San Diego State University
    • Teacher, Woodcrest Elementary School
  • Chris Thompson Green check mark transparent.png
    • Incumbent
    • Graduate, California State University at Fullerton
    • District manager, DENTSPLY Implants

Election results

This election did not appear on the ballot due to lack of opposition. Incumbents Janny Meyer, Chris Thompson and Beverly Berryman won re-election by default.[3]

Endorsements

No candidate received an official endorsement in this election.

Campaign finance

Candidates had to file contribution reports within 24 hours of receiving an aggregate total of $1,000 or more from a single source. The first scheduled pre-election report filing deadline was October 6, 2014. If candidates raised or spent less than $1,000 during the 2013 and 2014 calendar years, they had to file Form 470 at that time. If candidates raised or spent more during that time, they had to file Form 460 by the pre-election report filing deadline.[8]

Candidates required to file Form 460 also had to file a second pre-election report on October 23, 2014, and they had to file termination reports by December 31, 2014. If a termination report was not filed, candidates had to file a semi-annual report by February 2, 2015.[8]

Reports
  • Incumbent Beverly Berryman filed Form 470 with the Orange County Registrar of Voters, indicating she did not intend to raise or spend more than $1,000 for her 2014 campaign. Because of this, she did not have to file any additional campaign finance reports.[9]
  • Incumbent Janny Meyer filed her campaign finance reports in person at the Orange County Registrar of Voters. The Orange County Registrar of Voters does not publish and freely disclose school board candidate campaign finance reports that were filed by paper in their office. Ballotpedia staffers directly requested this information, but the municipal office refused those requests to make that information public.
  • Incumbent Chris Thompson reported $98.52 in miscellaneous cash increases and $52.00 in expenditures to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, leaving $46.52 cash on hand as of June 30, 2014.[10]

Past elections

Key deadlines

The following dates were key deadlines for the Fullerton School District election in 2014:[8][13]

Deadline Event
July 14, 2014 First day for candidates to file nomination documents
August 8, 2014 Last day for candidates to file nomination documents
October 6, 2014 First day to request vote-by-mail ballot
October 6, 2014 First pre-election report due
October 20, 2014 Last day to register to vote
October 23, 2014 Second pre-election report due
October 28, 2014 Last day to request vote-by-mail ballot
November 4, 2014 Election Day
December 31, 2014 Termination report due
February 2, 2015 Semi-annual report due

Additional elections on the ballot

See also: California elections, 2014

This election shared the ballot with general elections for seven U.S. House seats, several state executive offices, three state Senate seats and seven state Assembly seats. It also shared the ballot with a number of other school board elections and municipal elections, as well as two countywide ballot measures.[14][15]

Recent news

This section links to a Google news search for the term "Fullerton + School + District + California"

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Orange County Registrar of Voters, "Candidate's Handbook for the November 4, 2012, Statewide General Election," accessed July 21, 2014
  2. 2.0 2.1 Fullerton School District, "Fullerton School District Board Members," accessed July 21, 2014
  3. 3.0 3.1 Smart Voter, "Board Member; Fullerton School District Voter Information," accessed October 1, 2014
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 United States Census Bureau, "Orange County, California," accessed July 11, 2014
  5. National Center for Education Statistics, "ELSI Table Generator," accessed April 22, 2014
  6. Orange County Registrar of Voters, "Election Results Archive," accessed July 11, 2014
  7. California Secretary of State, "Summary of November 4, 2014, General Election Calendar," accessed July 14, 2014
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Fair Political Practices Commission, "Filing Schedule for Candidates and Controlled Committees for Local Office Being Voted on November 4, 2014," accessed August 19, 2014
  9. Orange County Registrar of Voters, "Viewing filing activity for Berryman, Beverly," accessed October 24, 2014
  10. Orange County Registrar of Voters, "Viewing filing activity for Thompson, Chris," accessed October 24, 2014
  11. Fullerton School District, "Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees," November 14, 2012
  12. OC Political, "Elections Where Candidates Went Unopposed," accessed July 28, 2014
  13. Orange County Registrar of Voters, "November 4, 2014 General Election Calendar," accessed July 11, 2014
  14. Orange County Registrar of Voters, "What's on the November 2014 General Election Ballot," accessed July 11, 2014
  15. Orange County Registrar of Voters, "Measures," accessed September 3, 2014