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Campaign to recall high school board president likely falls short

By Rick Monroe

The effort to recall Diane Summers, president of the Board of Trustees of the Fallbrook Union High School District has fallen short, likely lacking the needed number of signatures, according to a spokesperson for Reclaim Fallbrook Schools.

Petitions were returned to the county Registrar of Voters on the Sept. 23 deadline, but the signature requirement of 5,652 registered voters in the district was likely short, Sherry Weishaar, spokesperson for Reclaim Fallbrook Schools said.

“We probably didn’t get enough because some petitions will be disqualified,” said Weishaar. She explained that if one person’s signature is outside the box to on a petition, the entire page is disqualified. The spokesperson said she didn’t have an estimate of how many signatures were turned into the Registrar of Voters, which has until Nov. 3 to report the actual number. The required 5,652 signatures represent 20% of voters in the district. The recall drive began May 26.

Reasons cited by the group for the campaign to replace Summers were a conflict of interest, math scores not meeting state standards, limiting public comments but allowing union representatives to speak freely at board meetings, and not addressing declining school enrollment.

Weishaar said that the effort by Reclaim Fallbrook Schools was not in vain.

“There’s a lot of interest now in the election in November 2022 election for three board seats,” she said. “Last time around, four years ago, these three trustees were elected without opposition by voters in the entire district. I don’t think any will be unopposed next year, and they will be elected by their zone instead of the entire district.”

The trustees up for reelection in 2022 are Lita Tabish, Elana Sterling and Summers.

 

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