LAKEPORT, Calif. – As Lake County’s registrar of voters prepared to retire at month’s end, the Board of Supervisors has appointed her longtime deputy to fill the job on an interim basis.
The Board of Supervisors emerged from closed session on Tuesday to announce that it had appointed Maria Valadez as interim registrar of voters, upon the retirement of Registrar Diane Fridley.
Valadez’s appointment is effective on Dec. 29.
Fridley, whose retirement becomes official on Dec. 28, has worked for the Registrar of Voters Office since December 1977, serving as registrar since 2002, when the office became its own separate department.
During an October discussion, the Board of Supervisors considered how to fill the registrar’s job permanently going forward, with options including changing the job’s requirements and possibly consolidating it with another department, as it had been previously.
At that time, the supervisors directed staff to interview interim candidates while they decide what path to take moving forward.
Interviews and discussions about the job were conducted in closed sessions beginning last month, leading up to Valadez’s selection on Tuesday.
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Supervisors appoint Valadez as interim registrar of voters
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