Voters in the El Camino Healthcare District have approved Measure S, which will cap elected directors at four four-year terms, or 16 years in total, San José Spotlight reported, in a story that first appeared in the Mountain View Voice. KQED’s Associated Press tally, updated at 9:59 p.m. PT on Nov. 9, showed 55,340 yes votes, or 91.6%, to 5,023 no, or 8.3%. The results remain unofficial.
Why it matters: The Spotlight/Voice report said the cap applies only to terms that start after Dec. 1, 2026, so it will not immediately change who sits on the board. The district, founded in 1956, covers most of Mountain View, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills, a large part of Sunnyvale, and parts of Cupertino, Santa Clara and Palo Alto. Its five elected directors oversee the tax-funded district and also serve on the nonprofit hospital board.
No formal opposition argument was filed in the voter guide and no campaign spending was reported for or against the measure, the outlets said. The board voted 3-2 in May to place it on the ballot, with John Zoglin and George Ting dissenting; Ting later supported a formal argument for the measure, the report said. Zoglin, first elected in 2008, had called it “a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist.”
Board member Julia Miller said she expected the measure to pass but not by such a wide margin. “When you look at all the other election returns, people want fresh faces,” she said. The results are unofficial until the county completes its canvass.