{"id":250130,"date":"2016-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/north-park-planning-committee-elects-officers-appoints-chairs\/"},"modified":"2016-04-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T07:00:00","slug":"north-park-planning-committee-elects-officers-appoints-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/north-park-planning-committee-elects-officers-appoints-chairs\/","title":{"rendered":"North Park Planning Committee elects officers, appoints chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Ken Williams | Editor<\/p>\n

The North Park Planning Committee on Tuesday night, April 19, reelected its four officers and the chair reappointed all the subcommittee chairs, then the board members continued work on updating the North Park Community Plan.<\/p>\n

This followed meetings on March 21 and 22 in which the committee conducted a public recount of the March 15 annual election after the results were challenged by five voters. The dispute centered around which candidate won the No. 7 slot. Rachel Levin had been announced as the winner at the March 15 meeting, but the next day committee chair Vicki Granowitz emailed San Diego Uptown News and said a review of the ballots found that Daniel Gebreselassie had one more vote than Levin, and was thus elected.<\/p>\n

The new results triggered protests about irregularities from five voters, including Levin. The Elections Subcommittee and the officers met on March 21 to discuss the challenges and recommended at the March 22 meeting of the full board to recount the ballots \u2014 with public observation \u2014 instead of conducting another election.<\/p>\n

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North Park Planning Committee finalizes parts of the North Park Community Plan update. (Photo by Ken Williams)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The official results and vote totals are listed below, as the top seven vote-getters won election.<\/p>\n

ELECTED<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Robert Barry (incumbent), 77<\/li>\n
  2. Sarah McAlear (incumbent), 74<\/li>\n
  3. Roger Morrison (incumbent), 72<\/li>\n
  4. Melissa Stayner, 71<\/li>\n
  5. Brandon Hilpert (incumbent), 69<\/li>\n
  6. Robert Gettinger, 53<\/li>\n
  7. Daniel Gebreselassie (incumbent), 34<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    NOT ELECTED<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Rachel Levin (incumbent), 33<\/li>\n
    2. Lucky Morrison (incumbent), 30<\/li>\n
    3. Don Leichtling, 18<\/li>\n
    4. John Paul Iacoangelo, 16<\/li>\n
    5. Danielle Knauff, 8<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      At the April 19 meeting, chair Granowitz, vice-chair Ren\u00e9 Vidales, secretary McAlear and treasurer Hilpert were unanimously reelected to their posts.<\/p>\n

      Granowitz reappointed all the chairs of the subcommittees, including herself as chair of the El Cajon Boulevard Business Improvement Area (BIA). The other chairs are: Rob Steppke, Balboa Park Committee; Peter Hill, Maintenance Assessment District; Steve Codraro, North Park Main Street; Daniel Gebreselassie, North Park Mid-City Regional Bike Corridors; Dionne Carlson, Adams Avenue BIA.<\/p>\n

      The board members had a full docket, including action items involving the ongoing update to the North Park Community Plan. They voted to:<\/p>\n