Issue date: October 20, 1999
By BARBARA WOOD
Woodside voters should find it fairly easy to make their selections in this year's Town Council election -- none of the four seats are contested.
The Town Council voted in August to go ahead with the election despite the uncontested seats, just in case any last-minute, would-be council members surfaced and signed up as write-in candidates.
In the 1997 election, write-in candidate John Blake won in District 2.
With the October 19 deadline for registering as a write-in candidate fast approaching, however, no one has expressed interest.
That includes District 5 where the only candidate, incumbent Pete Empey, died in September. The council will have to decided how to fill that seat sometime after the November election.
In order to have votes for them counted, write-in candidates must officially register as write-ins. Those candidates' names would not appear on the ballot, but would be posted or printed on a sheet of paper at the polling place.
In Woodside, council members must live in the district they represent, but are elected town-wide.
The candidates are:
District 1: Dave Tanner, 51, was appointed to the seat in September to fill the unexpired term of Clifford Greyson when he moved from Woodside. Mr. Tanner, a general building and landscape contractor, has lived in Woodside since 1982. He served on the town's Architectural and Site Review Board from 1990 to 1996 and has been on the Planning Commission since 1996. He has also served on several committees in his neighborhood, the Woodside Glens.
District 3: Susan Boynton, 52, has lived in Woodside 23 years, serving on the town's Recreation and Trails committees, as the president of the Woodside Elementary School PTA, on the Woodside School Foundation, and on the Fellowship Board of the Woodside Village Church. She produced several community musicals and school operettas. She is now a member of the Woodside Community Foundation board and was appointed to the Planning Commission in March.
District 7: Pete Sinclair, 42, the current mayor, has his own software services company. He has lived in Woodside 11 years and has been a member of the Old La Honda Road Association. He was elected over two opponents, Ed Nelson and Kathleen Braunstein, in 1995.
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