Marin election races take shape at candidates’ filing deadline

Candidates have filed papers to run for scores of local offices up for grabs in the Nov. 5 general election in Marin.

Friday was the initial deadline for filing to run, but there is an extension to Aug. 14 for positions where an incumbent officeholder has not filed.

In addition to a runoff election for the District 2 Board of Supervisors seat between Brian Colbert of San Anselmo and Heather McPhail Sridharan of Kentfield, the election will include contests for municipal council seats, school board seats and board seats at the Marin Municipal Water District, the Marin County Board of Education, the Marin Community College District and the Marin Healthcare District.

Municipal councils

For Fairfax Town Council, Frank Egger, Mike Ghiringhelli, Cindy Swift and Douglas Kelly and incumbents Barbara Coler, Bruce Ackerman and Chance Cutrano all filed to compete for three seats. Egger previously served 10 four-year terms on the council, including seven terms as mayor. Ghiringhelli is also a former council member.

For Tiburon Town Council, Chuck Hornbrook, Andrew Thompson and incumbents Holli Thier and Isaac Nikfar have filed to compete for two seats.

For Novato City Council, incumbent Tim O’Connor filed for the District 3 seat. Incumbent Mark Milberg filed for the District 5 seat. James Petray and Kevin Jacobs filed for the District 1 seat held by Susan Wernick.

For Sausalito City Council, Steven Woodside and incumbents Ian Sobieski and Melissa Blaustein filed to compete for three openings. Incumbent Janelle Kellman did not file.

For San Anselmo Town Council, Kurt Johnson, Guy Meyer and incumbent Eileen Burke filed. There are three seats available. Incumbents Alexis Fineman and Brian Colbert did not file.

For Mill Valley City Council, incumbents Urban Carmel and Caroline Joachim filed to seek re-election. Incumbent James Wickham did not file.

For Larkspur City Council, incumbents Gabe Paulson and Scot Candell filed for the two full-term seats available. Lana Scott and Sarah Margulies filed to compete for a third short-term seat available due to the death of councilmember Kevin Carroll in March.

For Belvedere City Council, Pat Carapiet, Kevin Burke and incumbent Sally Wilkinson have filed. There are three seats available. Incumbents James Lynch and Nancy Kemnitzer have not filed.

For Corte Madera Town Council, incumbent Fred Casissa has filed to seek re-election and incumbent Charles Lee has not.

For San Rafael City Council, incumbent Maika Llorens Gulati filed to seek re-election in District 1. Mark Galperin and incumbent Rachel Kertz filed to compete in District 4. Mahmoud Shirazi filed to challenge Mayor Kate Colin, who filed to seek re-election. City Attorney Robert Epstein and City Clerk Lindsay Lara filed for re-election without opponents.

Education boards

The terms of four of the seven trustees on the Marin County Board of Education are ending. Adam McGill and Barbara Zarate filed to run for the Area 1 seat held by Li Delpan, who did not file. Incumbent Patricia Garbarino was the only candidate to file for the Area 2 seat. Victoria Canby filed for the Area 4 seat held by Fel Agrelius, who did not file. Denise Bohman and Jill Manning filed for the Area 7 seat held by Clairette Wilson, who did not file.

The terms of three members of the Marin Community College District board are ending. Crystal Martinez filed for the Area 2 seat held by incumbent Philip Kranenburg, who did not file. Incumbent Paul Da Silva was the only person to file for the Area 4 seat. No one filed for the Area 5 seat held by Crystal Martinez. Ross Millerick and incumbent Stephanie O’Brien filed for the Area 7 seat.

In San Rafael, the terms of three Board of Education trustees are ending. In Area 1, incumbent Mark Koerner did not file. In Area 3, only incumbent Maureen de Nieva filed. In Area 5, incumbent Marina Palma did not file.

In the Tamalpais Union High School District, Amos Klausner filed, but the two incumbents — Karen Loebbaka and Leslie Harlander — did not.

In the Bolinas-Stinson Union School District, incumbent Nicolette Hahn filed and incumbent Georgia Woods did not.

In the Miller Creek School District, Sivan Oyserman and incumbents Francesco Ruggeri and Alissa Chacko filed for full-term seats. Incumbent Caitlin McShane filed for a short-term seat.

In the Kentfield School District, incumbent David Riedel filed and incumbent Sara Aminzadeh did not.

In the Laguna Joint School District, incumbent James Lanatti filed and incumbent Diane Rowley did not.

In the Lagunitas School District, Breeze Kinsey filed and incumbents Richard Sloan and Denise Bohman did not.

In the Larkspur-Corte Madera School District, Charles Furcolo, Rachel Hudson, Ava Fruin and incumbent Beth Blair filed and incumbent Annie Sherman did not.

In the Mill Valley School District, the incumbents Elli Abdoli and Michele Crncich Hodge filed.

In the Nicasio School District, Matthew Pickett filed and incumbent Daniel Ager did not.

In the Novato Unified School District, Area 1 incumbent Debbie Butler filed. In Area 2, Chandra Alexandre filed and incumbent Ross Millerick did not. In Area 3, incumbent Julie Jacobson filed. In Area 7, incumbent Gregory Mack filed.

In the Reed Union School District, incumbent Liz Webb and Sandeep Sahai filed. Incumbent Jacqueline Jaffee did not.

In the Ross School District, Vinay Patel, Erin Earls and incumbent Kelly Dwinells filed. Incumbent Megan Callahan did not.

In the Ross Valley School District, Phillip Feffer and incumbents Shelley Hamilton, Rachel Litwack and Daniel Cassidy filed for three available seats.

In the Sausalito Marin City School District, Rebecca Lytle and Danielle Diego filed and incumbents Lisa Bennett and Alena Maunder did not.

In the Shoreline Unified School District, incumbent Thomas Tyson filed for the Area 1 seat. Area 2 incumbent Jill Manning did not file. Area 3 incumbent George Flores filed, while incumbent Kylee Lang did not.

Water districts

Two of the five seats on the Marin Municipal Water District board are up for grabs in the November election. The terms of Larry Russell and Monty Schmitt are ending.

Robert Sandoval and Jack Kenney filed for the Division 2 seat; incumbent Schmitt did not file. Dave Keatley filed for the Division 5 seat, as did longtime incumbent Larry Russell.

For the North Marin Water District board, Mary Stompe and incumbent Kenneth Eichstaedt filed for the Division 1 seat. Incumbent Jack Baker filed for the Division 2 seat. Francis Drouillard and incumbent Michael Joly filed for the Division 3 seat. Incumbent Stephen Petterle filed for the Division 4 seat.

For the Stinson Beach County Water District board, incumbent Sandra Cross filed, while incumbents Barbara Boucke and Lance Meade did not.

Services districts

In the Bel Marin Keys Community Services District, James Spaulding, Natalia Shorten, Kevin Dugan, David Bartnicki and incumbents Mercy Angelopulos and Cheryl Furst filed. Three seats are available.

In the Marin City Community Services District, Royce McLemore and incumbents Lynnette Egenlauf and Henry Mims filed. Two seats are available.

In the Marinwood Community Services District, incumbents Lisa Ruggeri, Christopher Case and Kathleen Kilkenny filed.

In the Muir Beach Community Services District, the two incumbents David Taylor and Nikola Tede filed.

In the Tamalpais Community Services District, Courtney Di Carlo and incumbents Steven Levine, Matthew McMahon and Steffen Bartschat filed. Three seats are available.

In the Tomales Village Community Services District, incumbents David Kitts and Donna Clavaud filed.

Fire boards

In the Bolinas Fire Protection District, incumbents Chris Martinelli, William Pierce and Simon Dunne filed.

In the Kentfield Fire Protection District, incumbents Bruce Corbet and Michael Murray filed.

In the Novato Fire Protection District, incumbents L.J. Silverman, Michael Hadfield and Shane Francisco filed.

In the Sleepy Hollow Fire Protection District, incumbents Sharon Adams and Thomas Finn filed.

In the Southern Marin Fire Protection District, Rich Riechel and incumbents Cathryn Hilliard, Clifford Waldeck and Ashley Raveche filed. Three seats are available.

In the Stinson Beach Fire Protection District, Michele Sileo and incumbents James Ritchie and Jeffrey Walsh filed. Incumbent Robert Guidi did not.

In the Tiburon Fire Protection District, incumbents Brett Tucker and Mark Capell have filed for full-term seats. Incumbent Joy Ho filed for a short-term seat.

Sanitary districts

In the Homestead Valley Sanitary District, incumbents Rick Montalvan, Alan Wuthnow and Joan Florsheim filed.

In the Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District, incumbents Craig Murray and Gary Robards filed for full-time seats. Nicholas Lavrov and incumbent Barry Nitzberg filed for one available short-term seat.

In the Novato Sanitary District, incumbents Jean Mariani and Jerry Peters filed.

In the Richardson Bay Sanitary District, incumbents Mark Slater and Jeffrey Slavitz filed.

In the Sausalito-Marin City Sanitary District, incumbents William Ring and Donald Beers filed for full-term seats. Incumbent Shirley Thornton filed for a short-term seat.

In Sanitary District No. 5, incumbents Richard Snyder, John Carapiet and Omar Arias-Montez filed.

In the Alto Sanitary District, incumbents Janis Bosenko and Todd Gates filed, while incumbent Michael Faust did not.

Miscellaneous

In the Bolinas Community Public Utility District, board incumbents Kevin McElroy and Kirsten Walker filed.

In the Inverness Public Utility District, board incumbents Dakota Whitney, Brent Johnson and Kathryn Donohue filed.

In the Mesa Park Recreation District in Bolinas, board incumbents David Lich and Noah Skinner filed.

In the Strawberry Recreation District, board incumbents Christian Michael and Cale Nichols filed for full-term seats; Pamela Bohner, who holds the other full-term seat, did not file. Sarah Waterfield filed for the short-term seat.

In the Marin Resource Conservation District, board incumbents Michael Moretti and David Sherwood filed, while incumbent Terry Sawyer did not.

For the Marin Healthcare District board, incumbents Edward Alfrey and Ann Sparkman filed.