Los Angeles County supervisors agreed Tuesday to move Santa Clarita’s city elections to November of even-numbered years to coincide with the statewide general election. With the board’s approval, the city can now fulfill a major condition of a 2014 settlement stemming from a California Voting Rights Act lawsuit.
The move to even-numbered November elections is aimed at strengthening voter turnout. City officials are still hammering out the details of another major condition of the settlement, which calls for the adoption of a new cumulative voting method.
There have been questions about the county’s current ability to handle such a system.
“That will have to be addressed down the line,” said Santa Clarita City Attorney Joe Montes.
Santa Clarita’s next city council election will now be held in November of 2016.
Read more about Tuesday’s decision by the Board of Supervisors here.