San Mateo Receives Six Applications for Vacant Council Seat

The following is a news release from the city of San Mateo:

The City of San Mateo has received six applications to fill the seat vacated by Council Member Robert Ross who resigned January 6.

Candidates must be of voting age and at a minimum have resided in the City of San Mateo for at least 30 days prior to the submission. Those submitting applications are: Rick Bonilla, Douglas Henton, Anna Kuhre, Donald Joseph Mattei, Fred Nesbitt Jr., and Diane Papan

The deadline to submit an application was Tuesday, January 20. In addition to the application itself, candidates were asked to respond to a series of supplemental questions, as well as provide a Statement of Economic Interests – a form required by all elected officials and overseen by the California Fair Political Practices Commission.

The next step is for the candidates to provide a 10-minute presentation at a special City Council meeting on Monday, January 26, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at San Mateo City Hall. This meeting is open to the public and will be televised and video streamed. The application for each candidate can be found as part of the meeting staff report on the city’s website at: http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/index.aspx?NID=170

The successful appointee will be sworn in as a Council Member at the February 2nd City Council regular meeting and will serve through December 7th. Those interested in filling the remaining two-years of Ross’s four-year term, which expires in 2017, will have to be elected by San Mateo voters during this November’s general election.

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