The San Carlos City Council will reconvene this Friday, May 18, for a special meeting to decide whether it wants to hold a special election this November, or wait 18 months until November 2013.
The council was split this past Monday - Mayor Matt Grocott and Mark Olbert favored holding a special election, while Vice-Mayor Bob Grassilli and Ron Collins were in favor of waiting until 2012 - and will revisit this issue Friday, which is the last day the council will be allowed to call for a special election, should it choose one.
Collins, who will be calling into the meeting from Florida, where he;ll be visiting family, sided with Grassilli on the basis of stabilization and consistency in a city whose government has been in seemingly endless flux.
The argument from Grocott and Olbert was one of democracy: they didn’t want to make the voters wait 18 months to vote while being governed by an appointed councilman who was not elected.
