Pasadena Sun
Plans to elect school board members from separate geographic districts might force several incumbents to battle each other at the polls and could open at least two seats to newcomers.
Four preliminary district maps, each slicing the Pasadena Unified School District into seven distinct zones, are now up for public debate.
Under one scenario, four of the seven current board members — Ed Honowitz, Elizabeth Pomeroy, Tom Selinske and Kim Kenne — would find themselves boxed into a single district that stretches from Altadena to the Foothill (210) Freeway.
In another, board allies Scott Phelps and Ramon Miramontes would have to battle for the same seat in the 2013 elections in a district bordering La Cañada Flintridge.
Either map would force voters to choose between Selinske and Kenne when their terms end in 2015, assuming both choose to run again. The two most current maps under consideration can be viewed at www.pasadenasun.com.
