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2014 Anaheim Union High School District Elections
General Election date:
November 4, 2014
Table of Contents
About the district Method of election Elections What was at stake? Key deadlines Additional elections External links
See also
California Anaheim Union High School District Orange County, California ballot measures Local ballot measures, California

Three seats on the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees were up for general election on November 4, 2014. Incumbents from Trustee Areas 1, 2 and 5 were up for re-election.^[1][2] Trustee Area 1 incumbent Al Jabbar defeated challengers Maureen Christensen and Linda Lobatos, and incumbent Annemarie Randle-Trejo defeated challengers Eleazar Elizondo, Thomas "Hoagy" Holguin and Roberto "Robert" Baeza for the Trustee Area 2 seat. Incumbent Anna L. Piercy ran unopposed and won re-election to the Trustee Area 5 seat. ^[3]

This was the first year board members were elected by trustee area. Prior to 2014, the Anaheim Union High School District elected its members in at-large elections.

About the district[edit]

See also: Anaheim Union High School District, California

Anaheim Union High School District is located in Orange County, California.

Anaheim Union High School District is located in Orange County, California. The county seat of Orange County is Santa Ana. Orange County was home to 3,114,363 residents in 2013, according to the United States Census Bureau.^[4] In the 2011-2012 school year, Anaheim Union High School District was the 25th-largest school district by enrollment in California and served 32,704 students.^[5]

Demographics[edit]

Orange County outperformed the rest of California in terms of education achievement in 2012. The United States Census Bureau found that 36.6 percent of Orange County residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree compared to 30.5 percent for California as a whole. The median household income for Orange County was $75,566 compared to $61,400 for the entire state. The percentage of people below poverty level for Orange County was 11.7 percent compared to 15.3 percent statewide.^[4]

Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

Method of school board selection[edit]

The Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees consists of five members elected to four-year terms by specific geographic areas. There is no primary election, and the general election was held November 4, 2014. The seats from Trustee Areas 1, 2 and 5 were up for election in 2014, and the seats from Trustee Areas 3 and 4 will be up for election in 2016.^[1][3][7]

To get on the ballot, school board candidates must file a Candidate Information Statement and a Declaration of Candidacy with the Orange County Registrar of Voters during the nomination period, which began July 14, 2014, and ended August 8, 2014. If candidates wanted to have a ballot designation, they had to also file a Ballot Designation Worksheet.^[7][8]

Voters had to register to vote by October 20, 2014, in order to vote in the general election. To vote by mail, voters had to file applications with the Orange County Registrar of Voters by October 28, 2014.^[8]

Elections[edit]

2014[edit]

Candidates[edit]

Trustee Area 1[edit]

• Al Jabbar
  • Incumbent
  • Graduate, Cypress College, California State University at Fullerton and California State University at Long Beach
  • Correctional Health Services program supervisor, Health Care Agency of Orange County
• Maureen Christensen
• Linda Lobatos
  • Community liaison

Trustee Area 2[edit]

• Annemarie Randle-Trejo
  • Incumbent
  • Educator, Anaheim City School District
• Eleazar Elizondo
  • Business owner
  • Coach
• Thomas "Hoagy" Holguin
  • General contractor
  • Business owner
• Roberto "Robert" Baeza
  • Educator

Trustee Area 5[edit]

• Anna L. Piercy
  • Incumbent
  • Graduate, California State University at Long Beach
  • Retired educator, Anaheim Union High School District

Election Results[edit]

Trustee Area 1[edit]

Anaheim Union High School District,
Trustee Area 1 General Election, 4-year term, 2014

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Al Jabbar Incumbent	49.4%	3,365
	Nonpartisan	Maureen Christensen	28.2%	1,921
	Nonpartisan	Linda Lobatos	22.3%	1,521
Total Votes				6,807
Source: Orange County Registrar of Voters, "General Election Results," accessed December 19, 2014

Trustee Area 2[edit]

Anaheim Union High School District,
Trustee Area 2 General Election, 4-year term, 2014

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Nonpartisan	Annemarie Randle-Trejo Incumbent	38.1%	2,967
	Nonpartisan	Thomas "Hoagy" Holguin	31.8%	2,478
	Nonpartisan	Roberto "Robert" Baeza	19.7%	1,535
	Nonpartisan	Eleazar Elizondo	10.4%	810
Total Votes				7,790
Source: Orange County Registrar of Voters, "General Election Results," accessed December 19, 2014

Trustee Area 5[edit]

This election was canceled due to lack of opposition. Incumbent Anna L. Piercy won re-election by default.^[9]

Endorsements[edit]

The Anaheim Secondary Teachers Association endorsed incumbents Al Jabbar, Annemarie Randle-Trejo and Anna L. Piercy.^[10] The Democratic Party of Orange County endorsed Jabbar, and the California Republican Assembly endorsed challengers Thomas "Hoagy" Holguin and Maureen Christensen.^[11][12] Jabbar and Randle-Trejo were also endorsed by the Orange County Labor Federation.^[13]

State Senator Lou Correa (D) endorsed Jabbar, Randle-Trejo and Christensen. State Assembly member Sharon Quirk-Silva (D) also endorsed Jabbar and Randle-Trejo.^[14][15]

Jabbar also received endorsements from the Orange County Employees Association and from Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D).^[14] Randle-Trejo also received the endorsement of State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson.^[15] Christensen was additionally endorsed by the Conservative Republicans of California and by State Senator Bob Huff (R).^[16][17]

Campaign finance[edit]

Candidates had to file contribution reports within 24 hours of receiving an aggregate total of $1,000 or more from a single source. The first scheduled pre-election report filing deadline was October 6, 2014. If candidates raised or spent less than $1,000 during the 2013 and 2014 calendar years, they had to file Form 470 at that time. If candidates raised or spent more during that time, they had to file Form 460 by the pre-election report filing deadline.^[18]

Candidates required to file Form 460 also had to file a second pre-election report on October 23, 2014, and they had to file termination reports by December 31, 2014. If a termination report was not filed, candidates had to file a semi-annual report by February 2, 2015.^[18]

Reports[edit]

The Orange County Registrar of Voters does not publish and freely disclose school board candidate campaign finance reports that were filed by paper in their office. Ballotpedia staffers directly requested this information, but the municipal office refused those requests to make that information public.

Past elections[edit]

Information about earlier elections can be found by clicking [show] at the right.

2012 Anaheim Union High School District, At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2012 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Katherine H. Smith Incumbent 31.9% 44,204      Nonpartisan Brian O'Neal Incumbent 28.2% 39,159      Nonpartisan Thomas "Hoagy" Holguin 23.1% 32,106      Nonpartisan Gerald C. Adams 16.8% 23,292 Total Votes 138,761 Source: Orange County Registrar of Voters, "Election Results Archive: 2012 General Election," accessed July 11, 2014 Anaheim Union High School District, At-Large General Election, 2-year term, 2012 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Annemarie Randle-Trejo Incumbent 50.8% 40,516      Nonpartisan Vernon F. Beckett 30.6% 24,423      Nonpartisan Thomas Peters 18.5% 14,778 Total Votes 79,717 Source: Orange County Registrar of Voters, "Election Results Archive: 2012 General Election," accessed July 11, 2014 2010 Anaheim Union High School District, At-Large General Election, 4-year term, 2010 Party Candidate Vote % Votes      Nonpartisan Jordan Brandman Incumbent 26.7% 38,517      Nonpartisan Anna L. Piercy Incumbent 24.3% 35,144      Nonpartisan Jan Domene 17.5% 25,289      Nonpartisan Vernon F. Beckett 16.5% 23,845      Nonpartisan Jose Luis "Joe" Moreno 15% 21,646 Total Votes 144,441 Source: Orange County Registrar of Voters, "Election Results Archive: 2010 General Election," accessed September 15, 2014

What was at stake?

Issues in the district[edit]

$249 million bond measure[edit]

See also: Anaheim Union High School District Bond Proposition, Measure H (November 2014)

After delaying a week to avoid a possible violation to the California Open Meeting Act, the Anaheim Union School District Board of Trustees voted 4-1 on July 17, 2014, to put a $249 million bond measure before voters in the November general election. The bond measure aimed to update 19 schools within the district for safety purposes and classroom upgrades that were identified in a report the board received in June 2014. If approved, the schools would receive new technology and desks within two years and have the possibility of receiving newly constructed classrooms after that. The 25-year bond measure would require property owners to pay $29 annually per $100,000 of assessed value, but it would not cover the entire cost of the updates identified in the report. For that, more bond measures will have to be approved. The lone dissenting vote to put the bond measure before voters came from board member Katherine Smith, who believed the measure's money should only target improving existing schools rather than acquiring new land or buildings for expansion, which the measure allows the board to do if necessary.^[19][20] The full bond measure can be found here.

On July 10, 2014, the day the board intended to vote on the bond measure, the board voted to delay the decision due to a possible violation to the California Open Meeting Act. The act requires meeting agendas be available to the public 72 hours before the meeting is scheduled and that any documents made available to the board are also made available to the public. The documents outlining the details of the bond measure were not ready at the time of printing, and though they were later added, they came at the end of a 241-page document. An additional document outlining the tax details related to the bond measure was only available at the meeting. Though this was the same time the board members were given the document, which complies with the open meeting act, Jeff Riel, legal counsel for the district, advised the board to act in caution and delay the vote. The decision to do so gave the district time to make all the materials available to the board and the public in a more organized manner.^[19]

A 55 percent supermajority was needed to pass the measure in the general election on November 4, 2014. It passed with over 57 percent voter approval.^[21]

Key deadlines[edit]

The following dates were key deadlines for the Anaheim Union High School District election in 2014:^[8][18]

Additional elections on the ballot[edit]

See also: California elections, 2014

This election shared the ballot with general elections for seven U.S. House seats, several state executive offices, three state Senate seats and seven state Assembly seats. It also shared the ballot with a number of other school board elections, municipal elections and a $249 million bond measure aimed at updating 19 schools within the district.^[22][23] Two countywide ballot measures and one measure for the Anaheim Union High School District were also on the November 4, 2014 general election ballot.^[24]

Recent news[edit]

This section links to a Google news search for the term "Anaheim + Union + High + School + District + California"

See also[edit]

• California
• Anaheim Union High School District, California
• California school board elections, 2014
• List of school board elections in 2014
• School board elections, 2014
• Orange County, California ballot measures
• California ballot measures

External links[edit]

• Anaheim Union High School District
• Orange County Registrar of Voters

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