The Foothill-De Anza Community College District will not have an election in the fall after no one challenged the two incumbents whose terms are expiring this winter.
Bruce Swensen and Pearl Cheng, whose terms both end in November 2009, will continue as trustees for another four years. Swenson was elected to the board in 2005. Cheng was appointed in 2008 to replace Paul Fong after he was elected as state assemblyman for the 22nd District, which includes Mountain View.
The upcoming election does not include a vacated seat that the board of trustees plans to fill on Aug. 31, replacing Hal Plotkin. That term won’t expire until December 2011.
In the Los Altos School District, too, there are only three people running for three seats. But the deadline to file was extended, according to a registrar spokesperson, giving challengers until 5 p.m. Wednesday (after the Voice went to press) to file papers in that race.
David Pefley, David Luskin and Mark Goines’ terms all expire in November, but only Goines is running again. Douglas Smith and John Radford also filed to run, according to the registrar’s office. One other resident took out papers, but as of press time had not yet filed them.
The race will be uncontested unless someone files before the Wednesday deadline, district staff said.
There are no open seats in either the Mountain View-Los Altos High School District or the Mountain View Whisman School District. Both districts will have elections in 2010.
