The new Oxnard City Council member to be appointed on Thursday will get to work right away.
After being sworn in that night, the new member will join the elected body in making a series of important decisions for Oxnard, including the upcoming budget, increased sales tax revenue and details of a new homeless shelter.
The new member will likely be in campaign mode. The temporary appointment lasts through November, when a special election will allow District 2 voters to have a say on who should be their representative for another year.
A preview of the candidates for the special election could be found in the list of applicants to the District 2 seat; there are 13 of them. They are: Larry Barbarine, Justin Beranich, Pedro Chavez, Orlando Dozier, Tai Hartley, Lizanne Nanez, Enrique Petris, Veronica Robles-Solis, Vincent Stewart, Chris Taccone, Gabe Teran, Ricardo Torres and Al Velasquez.
Even in the most frustrating, hopeless, boring, grief-filled days of the pandemic, California families found slivers of joy.
In Los Banos, the Ruiz and Gutierrez family played indoor badminton and learned American Sign Language together. In the Lucerne Valley, 8-year-old Colton Reichow careened over the desert hills on his dirt bike and learned how to butcher a cow at his grandfather’s farm. In Los Angeles, Shari Abercrombie found a way to make math fun for her son with special needs.
And just about everyone in EdSource’s families project rediscovered the simple comfort of talking to each other. In the third installment of our year-long series “California Families Struggle to Learn,” on how families are coping with distance learning, we asked families for their bright spots: What’s helping them survive this most challenging of school years?