Two years ago the district was able to avoid a costly election after longtime Trustees Elizabeth Blanchard and Mal King retired: no one filed to run for the BCL Board of Trustees so an election was not held. Dr. Dora Crouch and Stan Howlett were later appointed to the board.The cost of a library district election runs at least $15,000 that would be taken from BCL’s tight coffers.If only two candidates file to run for a Trustees’ seat an election could be avoided, especially if they fail to return nomination papers and seek an appointment: during the last decade the Santa Paula Elementary School District had a candidate slate of incumbents and was able to cancel the election.
Blanchard Community Library Trustees election
July 19, 2000
Santa Paula News
The Blanchard Community Library District will be assuredly seeing a turnover of Trustees when three seats held by incumbents will be up for election, especially since only one of the incumbents can now legally run for a seat.
Longtime incumbent Patricia Alderson - who lives just outside the city limits - will have to retire; when Alderson first joined the Blanchard Community Library Board of Trustees the residency limits to serve matched those of Santa Paula Union High School, which encompasses a wide area ranging outside city limits.In the early 1990s the SPUHS district and library formally parted ways and the library became an independent district; Alderson was allowed to keep her seat due to state Legislation that first allowed the board to forego an election and then reaffirmed seated Trustees.Rescoe, also a longtime member of the BCL Board of Trustees, subsequently moved to from Santa Paula to Ventura but was also allowed to hold his library position until the year 2000.Eugene Marzec, a former longtime member of the Santa Paula Elementary School District’s Board of Trustees, remains the only incumbent - he has served multiple terms on the BCL board - who will be eligible to run again for the library seat if he wishes.
