SDCERS’ Board of Administration consists of 5 elected members, each of whom serve a four-year term before elections are held again. The four-year terms for SDCERS’ active Fire Safety Board Member, Paul Lotze, and two General Board Members, Bret Bartolotta and Thomas Battaglia, are ending March 31, 2024. Therefore, SDCERS has begun the elections to fill these seats.
Nominations are open for these elections and all nominations and petition signatures must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. (PST) on December 11, 2024. All active City General and Fire/Lifeguard Safety Members are eligible to run for the appropriate seat and have been mailed a letter, which contains a unique validation number and instructions explaining how to self-nominate and/or sign a nominee’s petition. Please retain this letter, as you will need your unique validation number in order to submit a nomination or sign an existing nominee's petition. If you are an active City General, Fire, or Lifeguard Member interested in serving on SDCERS’ Board, please be sure to self-nominate by the deadline; all other members in these two categories, please be sure to sign the nomination petition(s) of any candidate(s) you support! Each nominee must have at least 10 electronic signatures from members in the appropriate membership category on their nomination petition in order to move forward in the election.
If you are an active City General, Fire, or Lifeguard Member and have not received your nominations letter by November 15, 2024; if you lost your letter; or if you have any questions about the nomination process, please email SDCERShelp@electionservicescorp.com or call 1-866-720-4357, Monday – Friday, 6:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. PST.
All nominations and signatures must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. PST on December 11, 2024. At that time, if there is only one nominee for the Fire Safety seat with at least 10 petition signatures (the minimum requirement to move forward), a Fire Safety Member election will not be necessary. Similarly, if there are only two nominees for the active General Member seat with at least 10 petition signatures each, then a General Member election will not be necessary. However, if there are competing nominations for either seat, then we will proceed with the election(s) and all members who are eligible to vote will receive another letter with further instructions.