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County split qualifies for ballot
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Dec 29, 2003 02:41pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Goleta Valley Voice |
| News Date | Monday, December 29, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | North County activists who want to split off from Santa Barbara County have obtained more than enough petition signatures to put the issue on the ballot.
Joe Holland, the Santa Barbara County Registrar of Voters, announced Wednesday that his office has finished its review of the petition for the Formation of Mission County: 20,779 signatures were required to put the issue on the ballot, and 21,426 were verified out of the 32,212 submitted.
The next step is to submit the tally to the Board of Supervisors, probably at its Jan. 8 meeting. The Clerk of the Board will then forward the results to the Governor, who will appoint a Commission to study and report on the ballot proposal.
If the proposal is declared valid, it will be presented to Santa Barbara County voters at a general election, possibly in November 2004, but more likely in March 2006.
Mission County will be formed if it is approved by more than 50 percent of voters in the proposed county and a total of 50 percent in Santa Barbara County.
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