**Pacific Palisades Community Council Now Taking Applications****For Area and At-large Alternate Representative Positions**

(Pacific Palisades, CA)—The Pacific Palisades Community Council is pleased to announce the opportunity for residents and other eligible persons to apply to become an Area or At-large alternate representative in 2018-2020.
There are eight primary Area representatives and one At-large representative on the PPCC Board of Directors.
The primary representatives are elected by the community, while the alternate representatives must apply and are elected by the Board.
Up to two alternate representatives (1st and 2nd alternates) will be chosen for each seat.
The alternates as well as the primary representatives serve a two-year term, beginning in October 2018.
Alternate representatives are encouraged to attend meetings and to participate in the discussion of issues, but do not vote unless the primary is absent.
Applicants for alternate Area representative must live within the specified boundaries of the area for which they are applying; the areas are detailed on the PPCC website**, pacpalicc.org**([Area Maps tab](https://pacpalicc.org/index.php/area-maps/)).
Applicants for alternate At-large representative must either live, own property or run a business within Pacific Palisades.
All interested parties must submit a Statement of any length indicating which position they are applying for (Area or At-large, 1st or 2nd alternate, or both; and you may apply for both Area and At-large alternate positions).
The Statement of each Area alternate applicant shall include the number of years residing in Pacific Palisades, the number of years as a resident of the Area and the number of years at the current address and that address.
The Statement of each At-large alternate applicant shall include the number of years residing in Pacific Palisades or running a business or owning property in Pacific Palisades and the applicant’s current residence, business or property address.
All applicants’ Statements shall include the position on issues the applicant believes are of importance to the community or the applicant’s Area.
The Statement may also include a few biographical facts including any skills that the applicant would bring to PPCC.
Applications for all alternate positions (Area or At-large) must be received by 9pm on Sunday, **
September 30, 2018.** **Email** : [info@pacpalicc.org](mailto:info@pacpalicc.org) (preferred method)
**Mail:** PPCC Candidate Statement P.O. Box 1131 Pacific Palisades, CA 90272, or **Personal Delivery** : Applications may be handed to the Chair (presiding officer) at a September PPCC Board meeting Please direct questions to [info@pacpalicc.org](mailto:info@pacpalicc.org).**** **Item 9.3 – 1) Election Committee Report & 2) Results Data Sheet** **1) PPCC Election Committee Report – 2018**
September 13, 2018 The Committee is pleased to announce that the following are the newly elected Area and At-large Representatives to the PPCC board, beginning
October 1, 2018: Area 1: Joanna Spak Area 6: David Kaplan Area 2: Steve Cron Area 7: Steve Boyers Area 3: Haldis Toppel Area 8: Reza Akef Area 4: Rick Mills At-large: Alan Goldsmith Area 5: Sue Kohl We had the second largest voter turnout in PPCC history, with 1034 total valid ballots.
This is only 203 votes less than in the 2016 election, but still hundreds more than in the 2014 election, and many hundreds of votes more than scores of other Westside council that held elections in 2016 (except for Venice, Sunland Tujunga and Central San Pedro, all more populated than Pacific Palisades).
We attribute the fewer votes cast this year to there being two contested offices (instead of four in 2016), and to the absence of the Palisades News (that would have provided election info and reporting to every home). **We commend all the candidates and thank the Palisades community for participating in this election.** With this report we are also distributing a Results data sheet, which includes the vote counts. A few words about the Committee’s vote-counting process are in order: 3 of the 5 Committee members were present (Committee Chair David Card could not attend due to illness; Andy Frew could not attend due to a prior volunteer commitment at the opening of a Theatre Palisades show).
In attendance were Bill Bruns, Richard Cohen, and Richard Blumenberg (a majority of Committee voting members).
Non-voting attendees were PPCC Chair George Wolfberg, Committee advisor Chris Spitz, and technical advisor Heather Cohen.
Each questionable ballot was inspected by every member of the Committee and discussed by the group.
Every decision concerning each ballot was unanimous and decisions were based strictly on the Bylaws.
After initial ballot qualification determinations were made, the entire group reviewed all decisions at least once (or more) again.
The Bylaws were scrupulously followed and all decisions were entirely impartial and unanimous.
It is important to recognize that the disqualification of votes narrowed the margin of victory in all but one race, but **_did not change the outcome_** _._ This result was fortuitous, but the Committee was fully prepared to follow the Bylaws to whatever outcome the rules dictate.
The grounds for disqualification were duplication of votes (that is, a voter voting more than once), omission of required information such as full name or a valid address, and voting in the wrong Area.
Based on the experience of this election and having received several constructive suggestions for improvement, the Committee recommends for future board consideration the following possible bylaws changes or other actions: