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Fresno High Region Voters Face Trustee Ballot Deadline Tuesday
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By Nancy Price, Multimedia Journalist
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April 11, 2022

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Voters in Fresno Unified’s Area 5 have until 8 p.m. Tuesday to turn in their ballots for the special election to choose a successor to the late Carol Mills.

The candidates are retired teacher Russ Allen, retired firefighter Andrew Fabela, teacher and community organizer Andy Levine, and retired parole administrator Daniel Renteria.

The winner of the special election will serve the remainder of Mills’ term through November 2024. Mills, a longtime trustee who was reelected in November 2020, lost her battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease last July.

The campaign has been marked by some public name-calling and political antics. Two of the candidates, Levine and Renteria, have collected tens of thousands of dollars in political contributions, while Fabela and Allen are running low-cost campaigns.

Campaign Contributions So Far

Levine, whose supporters include Fresno Unified Trustee Veva Islas, continues to be the frontrunner in campaign contributions. As of the most recent campaign report on Friday, Levine’s campaign had amassed $67,389, including $3,402 in nonmonetary contributions. Levine’s biggest contribution was $10,000 from the Fresno Teachers Association PAC for Education.

Through March 31, Renteria’s campaign was reporting $28,472 in contributions, including $8,000 in loans. Granville Homes has contributed $5,000 to his campaign and $3,923 in a nonmonetary contribution for a billboard. GV Wire publisher Darius Assemi is president and CEO of Granville.

Fabela declared on his initial campaign filing that he didn’t plan to raise or spend more than $2,000. However, last month Fabela created a campaign treasury to accept a $2,500 contribution from “Fix Fresno Unified School District” in Imperial Beach, California.

The $2,500 was spent on “campaign signage,” presumably the large campaign signs in the back of a 1955 blue pickup truck that Trustee Terry Slatic said on a radio show last week he has been driving around the Fresno High neighborhood and parking in “strategic” spots.

Fabela’s claim in a GV Wire profile story to having been a member of the elite Smokejumper corps was later questioned by other smokejumpers.

Allen declared that he wouldn’t raise or spend more than $2,000.

Where to Vote

Ballot drop boxes in the Fresno High area are available at Bedrosians Tile and Stone, 3567 W. Shaw Ave.; Gillis Library, 629 W. Dakota Ave.; Choice Food Market, 2106 W. Olive Ave.; in the Tower District at Olive and Wishon avenues; and at the Fresno County Clerk’s Office, 2221 Kern St. The deadline to use drop boxes is 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 12.

County Clerk James Kus said Area 5 voters should use drop boxes or the voting centers in Area 5, because drop boxes in other neighborhoods outside the Fresno High Region have been locked.

For those who like in-person voting and want to collect an “I Voted” sticker, ballots may be dropped off now through Tuesday during business hours at the County Clerk’s Office.

In addition, ballots can be cast at voting centers at Fresno High School, 1839 N. Echo Ave., the Central Valley Regional Center, 4615 N. Marty Ave., and Williams Elementary School, 525 W. Saginaw Way. The voting centers are open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday.

On Election Day, the voting centers will be open from 7 a.m. through 8 p.m.

Kus said votes still may be dropped off at post offices, but to guarantee they receive a postmark voters might want to carry their ballot inside to the counter instead of putting their ballots in a blue box. Ballots must have an April 12 postmark to be counted.

As of Monday morning, 3,232 ballots had been cast, according to the County Clerk’s running total. There are more than 26,000 registered voters in Area 5.

GV Wire hosted a candidate forum on March 3 that was attended by three of the four candidates.

The forum is available as an audio download to your mobile device via The GV Wire Podcast channel on all major podcast apps.

Voting Centers, Drop Boxes

Source: Fresno County Clerk’s Office

 

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Nancy Price,
Multimedia Journalist
Nancy Price is a multimedia journalist for GV Wire. A longtime reporter and editor who has worked for newspapers in California, Florida, Alaska, Illinois and Kansas, Nancy joined GV Wire in July 2019. She previously worked as an assistant metro editor for 13 years at The Fresno Bee. Nancy earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Her hobbies include singing with the Fresno Master Chorale and volunteering with Fresno Filmworks. You can reach Nancy at 559-492-4087 or Send an Email

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