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  • Want to run for local office? Beginning Monday, you can

    Sentinel staff report–
    Local elected positions on the city council, water district, school board, and more, are up for election this November, leaving residents with an opportunity to run for office. The filing period begins July 16.

    In some local races, winning candidates only need a few thousand votes to win an election — or, in the case of the Citrus Heights Water District race in 2016, no votes were needed to re-elect one board director since no one else filed to run.

    For Citrus Heights residents, the following local races will be on the ballot and are open for residents to file to run:

    Citrus Heights City Council: Three of the council’s five seats are up for election, all of which are four-year at-large positions that are open to residents from any part of the city. Seats on this year’s ballot are currently occupied by Mayor Steve Miller, Vice Mayor Jeannie Bruins, and Councilman Al Fox, who was appointed last year to fill the vacancy left by the late Councilman Mel Turner.

    Related: How much do Citrus Heights council members actually get paid?

    Citrus Heights Water District: Two of the three positions on the water district’s board of directors are up for election. Each director represents a different portion of the district — and some areas of the city are covered by the neighboring Sacramento Suburban Water District. The seats are four-year terms and are currently occupied by President Ray Riehle and Director Allen Dains.

    San Juan Unified School District: Two seats on the five-member school board are up for election. The seats are four-year terms and are at-large positions. The two seats are currently occupied by Michael McKibbin and Greg Paulo.

    San Juan Water District: Local residents also elect board members on the five-member district which supplies water to CHWD and other water districts in the area. Three at-large seats will be up for election, currently occupied by Ted Costa, Marty Hanneman, and Dan Rich. Each member serves a term of four years.

    Los Rios Community College District: Three of the district’s seven-member board of trustees are up for election, including the trustee position covering the area of Citrus Heights. The seat is currently occupied by Robert Jones, and is a four-year term.

    Metro Fire District: Division 3 of the district’s nine-member board’s will be up for election. The seat covers Citrus Heights and is a four-year term. It is currently occupied by Randy Orzalli.

    The deadline to file is August 10, 2018. To learn more about filing to run for office, visit the Sacramento County Elections website at: www.elections.saccounty.net/CampaignServices/

  • Citrus Heights News Briefs: local politics, attempted murder, campaign announcements

    Bret Daniels
    Bret Daniels, pictured during a candidate forum last year, won election to the Citrus Heights city council on Nov. 8, 2016, and now plans to run for county sheriff in 2018.

    Latest local news briefs include an upcoming July 4 DUI enforcement effort, a Citrus Heights planning commissioner confirming plans to run for school board, Councilman Bret Daniels announcing his latest bid for county sheriff, and the arrest of a man for allegedly attempting to murder his neighbor.

    Citrus Heights councilman announces campaign for sheriff
    It may be more than a year out from the 2018 election, but candidates are already busy preparing for a long campaign season. Councilman Bret Daniels officially announced Tuesday that he is running for Sacramento County Sheriff for the fifth time. In a short four-minute video posted on Daniels’ Facebook campaign page, the councilman thanked the small crowd of attendees for showing up at his campaign kick-off event in downtown Sacramento and highlighted news reports from last year where jurors found “a culture of retaliation and preferential treatment inside the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department.” Daniels said “it’s just time for it to end, and that’s what we’re about.” He also received an applause for saying he would reverse an increase in crime through “a greater police presence in your neighborhood, a better use of resources, and keeping dangerous criminals in jail where they belong to be.”

    Daniels previously served as a Sacramento County sheriff’s deputy in the 1990’s but was fired in 2000, after the department said he lied during an internal affairs investigation relating to whether he accessed a law enforcement database for personal use. Daniels previously told The Sentinel he disputes the charges and believes the firing was “politically motivated” by then-Sheriff Lou Blanas. Two years prior to the firing, Daniels had run against Blanas for county sheriff. (Learn more about Daniels)

    From 2016: Bret Daniels’ election to city council called ‘a shocker’ by Citrus Heights leaders

    Citrus Heights planning commissioner confirms plan to run for school board
    Tim Schaefer, who was appointed earlier this year to the Citrus Heights planning commission by Councilman Daniels, has confirmed plans to run for a seat on the five-member San Juan Unified School District governing board. Schaefer placed fifth in the local race for city council last year and had expressed concern during the campaign about poor ratings received by schools within Citrus Heights, citing data from www.school-ratings.com.

    Schaefer’s intention to run for school board was made public in an update on his Facebook campaign page name, which was recently changed to “Tim Schaefer for San Juan Unified School Board.” He also confirmed his 2018 campaign plans with The Sentinel. The 56-year-old will seek to unseat one of two at-large board members who are up for election next year: Michael McKibbin and Greg Paulo. (Learn more about Schaefer)

    Citrus Heights man, 33, arrested for attempted murder of neighbor
    Citrus Heights police said a local man was arrested after allegedly shooting his neighbor in what authorities called an “ongoing neighbor dispute.” 33-year-old Hieu Thai Truong was arrested Wednesday after police said officers responded to a report of a shooting around 8:30 a.m. on the 7700 block of Poplar Lane, located off Antelope Road. After police moved the gunshot victim to safety, the suspect’s location was surrounded and he surrendered to officers.

    Online inmate records from the Sacramento County Jail indicate Truong is charged with attempted murder and felony assault with a deadly weapon. He is ineligible for bail. Police said the man Truong is believed to have shot is expected to survive, but suffered a gunshot wound to his hand and leg.

    CHPD: roving DUI patrols to hit streets on July 4
    Citrus Heights police announced that officers from the department’s DUI Enforcement Team will be deployed on July 4 in an effort to “stop and arrest alcohol and drug-impaired drivers.” The department said in a news release last week that saturation patrols, roving patrol officers designated to target DUI drivers, will be deployed in areas of the city that have had higher frequencies of DUI collisions or arrests. Police cited national statistics from 2015 indicating that 49 percent of drivers age 18 to 34 who were killed on July 4 were driving with a blood alcohol level over the legal limit of .08 percent.

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  • Close race: Miller now trails McKibbin by 839 votes in SJUSD election

    Updated Nov. 12, 4:12 p.m.–
    Latest numbers released around 4 p.m. today showed McKibbin’s lead gaining by several hundred more votes, with a total of 839 votes ahead — beating Miller by a slim margin of less than 1 percent of the votes cast in the race.

    Updated Nov. 10, 3:52 p.m.–
    Latest numbers just released show Miller trailing McKibbin by 633 votes in San Juan school board race. County election officials estimate there are still over 23,000 vote-by-mail ballots and around 9,000 provisional ballots still to be counted. Next update expected Wednesday by 4 p.m.

    Updated Nov. 6, 5:51 p.m.–
    In a tight race for a seat on the San Juan Unified School District board, business owner Michael Miller now trails retired educator Michael McKibbin by 185 votes, after the Sacramento County Registrar of Voters updated its vote-count with thousands of additional vote-by-mail and provisional ballots, Thursday afternoon.

    I voted sticker. Photo credit: Luke Otterstad
    Stock photo, Citrus Heights Sentinel.

    Although initially trailing in third place in the race for two seats on the SJUSD governing board, Miller ended up the night with a 249-vote lead over McKibbin, saying on his Facebook page he was “cautiously optimistic” the lead would hold.

    With the Registrar’s office reporting a number ballots county-wide still to be tallied, the school board race is yet to be decided — although both Miller and McKibbin beat San Juan Teachers Association-backed Paula Villescaz and businessman Michael Alcalay in the race for second place. The local teachers association had backed Villescaz and first-place winner Greg Paulo in the race, but Villescaz came in fourth with just 17 percent of the vote, while Paulo pulled off an easy re-election with 24 percent.

    Miller had picked up the endorsement of Citrus Heights Vice Mayor Sue Frost, the local chamber of commerce and the Sacramento Republican Party, while McKibbin earned the endorsement of the Sacramento Bee and several Democrat groups.

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