No election for high school district this November

Voters won’t be weighing in this November on who joins the Mountain View-Los Altos High School District board of trustees. Only two candidates filed for the two seats up for re-election by the Aug. 17 deadline, leaving it an uncontested election.

Incumbent Phil Faillace, along with district parent Sanjay Dave, will begin their terms on the board later this year. Current board member Susan Sweeley, whose term expires this year, did not file for re-election. Both Faillace and Sweeley have served long terms on the board, with Sweeley completing her fourth term and Faillace completing his fifth term.

Dave has been involved in both the Mountain View-Los Altos High School District and the Mountain View Whisman School District in recent years. In 2014, he ran unsuccessfully for the high school district, and in August 2015 he sought an appointment to the Mountain View Whisman board of trustees.

The district rarely has elections, with only two contested bids for the school board since the 1990s. The November 2014 election was something of an anomaly, when seven candidates entered the race for three seats.