Live in Berkeley? I think you should consider running for the city council. Why?
4 seats are going to be open with no incumbents:
District 4: the area between Sacramento, Blake, Fulton, and University, plus the area between University, Cedar, MLK, and Fulton. Lots of rationalists live in this area. This will be a special election that’s yet to be scheduled, but I imagine it will be held in April or May, with a filing deadline in late Feb / early Mar. (Or maybe it will be held at the same time as District 7, on April 16, filing deadline on EOD Feb 16)
District 5: north of Cedar, between Spruce and Sacramento/Tulare/Nelson. Election in November.
District 6: north of Hearst, between Oxford/Spruce and Wildcat Canyon Road. Election in November.
District 7: campus and the couple blocks immediately south of it. Borders are hard to describe, check here. Special election: filing deadline is EOD Feb 16, election is April 16.
You probably have gripes with how the city is running: maybe you wish policing were different, or there were more permissive zoning, or better education.
You probably have a bunch of friends who feel similarly who maybe would want to vote for you or support your campaign.
Here is a candidate handbook for the District 7 election, I imagine running for the other districts is similar (but with different relevant dates).
Live in Berkeley? I think you should consider running for the city council. Why?
4 seats are going to be open with no incumbents:
District 4: the area between Sacramento, Blake, Fulton, and University, plus the area between University, Cedar, MLK, and Fulton. Lots of rationalists live in this area. This will be a special election that’s yet to be scheduled, but I imagine it will be held in April or May, with a filing deadline in late Feb / early Mar. (Or maybe it will be held at the same time as District 7, on April 16, filing deadline on EOD Feb 16)
District 5: north of Cedar, between Spruce and Sacramento/Tulare/Nelson. Election in November.
District 6: north of Hearst, between Oxford/Spruce and Wildcat Canyon Road. Election in November.
District 7: campus and the couple blocks immediately south of it. Borders are hard to describe, check here. Special election: filing deadline is EOD Feb 16, election is April 16.
Nobody is running in those races yet.
You probably have gripes with how the city is running: maybe you wish policing were different, or there were more permissive zoning, or better education.
You probably have a bunch of friends who feel similarly who maybe would want to vote for you or support your campaign.
Here is a candidate handbook for the District 7 election, I imagine running for the other districts is similar (but with different relevant dates).