LBUSD Board of Education Member Megan Kerr and former Port of Long Beach Harbor Commissioner Rich Dines announced they are both running for the 5th District City Council seat in 2022.
The district now runs stretches across the city, touching both the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers and the geographic shift displaced all declared candidates from the district they intended to run for.
The first filing deadline for the June 2022 Long Beach primary elections passed over the weekend and the early financial disclosure documents revealed by the City Clerk’s office Monday show several incumbents running unchallenged and a wide-open mayor’s race.
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Five of the city’s nine City Council districts are up for reelection in 2022 in addition to the mayor’s office and other citywide offices like city prosecutor and city auditor. Here are what the initial fundraising reports show:
1st District
The 1st district includes parts of Downtown and the Port of Long Beach and is currently represented by Councilwoman Mary Zendejas. Zendejas won a special election in 2019 after the seat was vacated by Lena Gonzalez when she won a special election for a State Senate seat.
Sunrise Senior Living, which already runs 332 assisted living and memory care communities, is looking to build another just south of Wardlow Road and Los Coyotes Diagonal.