Yorba Linda : School Vote to Proceed Though There’s No Race

The school board race is all over in Yorba Linda School District. Nonetheless, there will be an election Nov. 3.

At the end of filing period earlier this year, three candidates had filed for the two school board seats to be filled Nov. 3. But one of those candidates, Rod Shipman, has withdrawn.

The withdrawal, which Shipman confirmed in an interview Friday, leaves two active candidates in the race--appointed incumbent Karin M. Freeman and Quentin P. Goodman, a dentist. They are nominally the winners.

But the county registrar of voters office said Friday that Shipman’s withdrawal came too late for his name to be removed from the ballot. There will thus still be three names on the ballot competing for the two positions, and an election will be held, said Jeannette Shelton, elections section supervisor in the registrar’s office.

Shipman, 37, chief executive officer for Insight Health Care, based in Anaheim, said he had to withdraw because of needs of his business.

The no-contest election is expected to be the last for the Yorba Linda School District. After a lengthy political struggle, Yorba Linda residents this year succeeded in getting a state law passed and signed that allows the elementary school district to merge into the adjoining Placentia Unified School District.