REFERENDUM QUESTION LOOKS GOOD FOR LATE 2013

The petition with original signatures was delivered to the Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections office on Thursday, June 20th. It was accepted and the process of validating the signatures has begun. I was told a week or so to get the count...therefore, any day now.

At today's WVID Board of Supervisors meeting the Supervisors have accepted the notion of beginning the process to change to popular election (one supervisor for now, probably for the June 2014 election). They will have 6 months from the date of official notification from the Supervisor of Elections office of the official count to hold a REFERENDUM ELECTION to decide this issue. This assumes that the official count will be 10% or greater of the total number of registered voters. We needed 71 signatures, and I delivered petitions with 119 signatures on them.

That means the REFERENDUM Election should be held sometime before the end of this year. If the voters approve, then early next year one or more candidates for the position will need to emerge and register for the election. In June 2014 the voters will be able to elect the next supervisor to the board.

All good news so far. I was very pleasantly surprised that the board agreed to move forward with this process with little discussion of the matter.