[Ebbc-Talk] Fwd: Filing Period Opens for AC Transit Board of Directors

Is anyone in EBBC interested in running for a seat on the AC Transit District Board?

AC Transit could use more Directors like Chris Peeples and Elsa Ortiz who are bike-friendly...

Details below...


Jon

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> From: "Clarence L. Johnson" <[email protected]>
> Date: July 16, 2012 5:19:59 PM PDT
> To: "Clarence L. Johnson" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Filing Period Opens for AC Transit Board of Directors
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> Please see the attached for immediate release.
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> Oakland, California
> July 16, 2012
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> CONTACT: Clarence Johnson
> TEL (510) 891-4745
> CEL (510) 368-5755
> [email protected]
> www.actransit.org
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> Filing Period Opens for AC Transit Board of Directors
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> The filing period opened today, Monday, July 16, 2012, for persons interested in being candidates in the November 6, 2012 general election for AC Transit's policymaking Board of Directors. 
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> Three of the seven board seats are up for election - one represents a specific geographic ward spanning portions of both Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, one represents a specific geographic ward in Alameda County, and a third represents the entire District. They are:
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> WARD 1
> Alameda Portion:  The entire city of Albany and the portion of the city of Berkeley that is generally north of Cedar Street, west of Oxford Street, south of Dwight Way and west of Telegraph Avenue.
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> Contra Costa Portion: The entire cities of El Cerrito, Richmond, San Pablo and the unincorporated areas of El Sobrante, Kensington, and North Richmond within the District.
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> WARD 2
> The entire cities of Emeryville and Piedmont and the portion of Berkeley that is generally south of Cedar Street and east of Oxford Street, north of Dwight Way and east of Telegraph Avenue.  The portion of Oakland that is northwest of High Street (between the water and Foothill Boulevard), northwest of 35thAvenue, west of Brookdale Avenue, west of Coolidge Avenue, south of School Street, and north of Champion Street/Lincoln Avenue.
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> The filing period for election to AC Transit's seven-member board extends from Monday, July 16, through 5:00 p.m. Friday, August 10, 2012.  If an incumbent does not file for re-election by August 10th, the filing deadline for that seat will be extended by five days as prescribed by the Election Code.
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> Candidates must be registered voters and reside in the area they seek to represent. For Alameda County residents, nomination packets may be obtained at the Registrar of Voters, 1225 Fallon Street, G-1 in Downtown Oakland (510) 272-6933. For Contra Costa County residents, contact that county's Elections Department, 555 Escobar Street in Martinez (925) 335-7800. 
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> Clarence Johnson
> AC Transit
> Media Affairs Manager
> 1600 Franklin Street
> Oakland, CA 94612
> (510) 891-4745



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  —Frances E. Willard, in A Wheel Within a Wheel: How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle (1895)

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