Rockridge residents cast their ballots in the Rockridge Community Planning Council’s Annual Meeting/Election for positions on its board of directors on April 21 and April 23. Candidate statements appeared in the Rockridge News and on rockridge.org. The candidates presented their views to the community in the moderated Candidates Forum Zoom Webinar on April 18, which was also streamed and posted on RCPC’s YouTube channel.
Voters turned out to cast their ballots on April 21 outside of and in the outer lobby of the Rockridge Branch Library (with doors left open) and continued on April 23 in the Rockridge Library rear parking lot. The open air/outdoors voting sites were chosen to ensure a safe voting experience.
Six candidates, 4 of them incumbents, were elected to full two-year board terms. In all, 214 ballots were cast for nine candidates in this contested election.
Incumbents (with vote counts): Robin McDonnell (176), Casey Farmer (146), Annette Floystrup (128), and Kirk Peterson (124) retained their seats. Two new members joined the board: Ben Friedman (123), and Alyson Bonde (118).
The vote tallies for the rest of the 2022 candidates were: Diana Mitchell-Chavez (114), Brett Moyer (103), and Eric Neville (72) votes.
Congratulations to the new and returning board members, and thank you to all the candidates in the 2022 RCPC Board election. The Board would also like to thank the board members who volunteered to help run the election: Elections officer Stuart Flashman, board members Ronnie Spitzer, Ken Rich, Andrew Charman and Zach Unger, retiring board chair Leonora Sea, and legal advisor John Gussman.
A copy of the final election certification is attached.