Nominations Open for Upcoming Active City Police Safety and Retiree Board Member Elections

SDCERS’ Board of Administration includes 5 elected members, each of whom serve a four-year term before elections are held again. The four-year terms for SDCERS’ active Police Safety Board Member, Louis Maggi, and Retiree Board Member, Chris Brewster, are ending March 31, 2027. Therefore, SDCERS has begun the elections to fill these seats.

Nominations are open for these elections and all nominations and petition signatures must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. (PST) on November 13, 2026. All active City Police Safety Members and SDCERS retirees are eligible to run for the appropriate seat and have been mailed a letter, which contains a unique validation number and instructions explaining how to self-nominate and/or sign a nominee’s petition. If we have an email address on file for you based on your Member Portal registration, then you should also have received an email with the same information.

Please retain this letter and/or email, as you will need your unique validation number in order to submit a nomination or sign an existing nominee’s petition.  If you are an active City Police Member or a retiree interested in serving on SDCERS’ Board, please be sure to self-nominate by the deadline; all other members in these two categories, please be sure to sign the nomination petition(s) of any candidate(s) you support!

Each nominee must have at least 10 electronic signatures from members in the appropriate membership category on their nomination petition in order to move forward in the election.

The link for the nominations website is as follows: https://vote.escvote.com/sdcers

If you are an active Police Safety or retired member and 1) have not received your nominations letter by October 20, 2026, 2) have lost your letter, or 2) have questions about the nomination process, please contact Election Services at:

Email: SDCERShelp@electionservicescorp.com

Phone: 1-866-720-4357

Hours: Monday – Friday, 6:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. PST. 

All nominations and signatures must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. PST on November 13, 2026. At that time, if there is only one eligible nominee for the Police Safety seat, a Police Safety Board Member election will not be necessary. Similarly, if there is only one eligible nominee for the Retiree Board Member seat, then a Retiree Member election will not be necessary. However, if there are competing nominations for either seat, then we will proceed with the election(s) and all members who are eligible to vote will receive another letter with further instructions.