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Local board seats included in November election

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The filing period for candidates in the the Nov. 8 election opened July 18 and will continue through Aug. 12. In Ramona, two seats for the Ramona Unified School District Board will be open, three on the Ramona Municipal Water District Board and eight on the Ramona Community Planning Group.

An 80-page Candidate Filing Guide is online at www.sdvote.com. More information also is available at 858-505-7250.

Both incumbents on the school board — Dawn Perfect and John Rajcic — said they plan to seek re-election. Perfect is seeking her third four-year term and Rajcic is seeking his second term.

Two water board directors — Darrell Beck, who represents Division 1, and George Foote, who represents Division 5, said they will not seek another four-year term. Division 3 Director Thomas Ace said he will run as a candidate in the November election. Ace is the third director to represent Division 3 since the 2012 election. He was appointed to the seat in April 2015, following the resignation of Arnie Cares, who served two months. Cares had been appointed after elected director Rex Schildhouse resigned in October 2014.

Division 1 covers part of the water district’s downtown and northeast areas, Division 3 includes areas of San Diego Country Estates and south of Warnock Drive, and Division 5 covers the east end of the Estates. For a map of the divisions, see rmwd.org and click “board of directors” at the top.

Planning group seats that will be on the ballot are now held by chair Jim Piva, Jim Cooper, Donna Myers, Paul Stykel, Richard Tomlinson, Eb Hogervorst, Barbara Jensen and Torry Brean. Piva, who has served two four-year terms, said he will not seek re-election. Stykel and Brean said they will run again, but Jensen and Tomlinson are undecided, as are Cooper and Myers. The Sentinel was unable to contact Hogervorst.

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