By Mary O’KEEFE

Crescenta Valley Water District customers have recently received a postcard concerning “Important Election Information.”

“The date of the board member election of the Crescenta Valley Water District has been changed from the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of odd years to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of even years, effective November 2018,” the notice states.

What this means is that three seats on the CVWD board of directors that would normally come up for election this year will be pushed back one year. The seats of board members Kerry Erickson, James Bodnar and Ken Putnam would be up for election this November; however, with this change, those seats will be up for election in November 2018.

“We have to pay the election costs,” explained Christy Scott, CVWD spokeswoman, of the change.

The water district has to foot the bill for a special election; if it can be held on even years during general elections the district can save about $30,000.

Scott added that, in addition to saving money, moving the election time to coincide with a general election, held on even years, will see more residents voting. In the past, special elections have had low voter turn-out.

  Mary Okeefe