Landry, Lopez win Campbell council seats

Campbell Mayor Susan M. Landry will serve another term as the representative for District 1. Landry won the seat Nov. 3 with 41% of the vote, beating out opponents Anne Souza, who received nearly 35% of the vote, and Terry Hines, who ended the count with 24%.

Landry has served on the City Council since 2016. A professional landscape architect, she has placed development and public spaces at the center of her work and campaign.

Voters elected Sergio Lopez to serve as the Campbell City Council representative for District 2. Sergio received 52% of the vote, while his opponent, Carol Hoffman, received just under 48%.

Lopez said his two first priorities in his new role will be to address the fate of small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic and to develop a long-term plan for the city’s housing crisis.

“These issues are personal for me; I grew up in the community and watched as my family lost our small business to the Great Recession and our home to foreclosure,” Lopez wrote in an email. “That authenticity and passion resonated with voters who today recognize that these are the biggest issues facing our community in the midst of this pandemic.”

Developing new teaching methods has also been a big issue during the pandemic. Still, voters renewed a parcel tax in the Campbell Union

High School District that was intended to provide nearly $5 million per year to allow the district to develop a distance learning and Covid-19-compliant classroom strategy. With 64% of the vote, Measure L was within a few percentage points of the supermajority required for its passage.

COURTESY OF SARAH FOY Shortly after learning in March that schools ould be shut do n due to the Covid-19pandemic, Campbell Union High School District staff disinfected Chromebooks prior to their delivery to students ho are sheltering in place. Campbell voters on Nov. 3 rene ed a parcel tax to provide funding to allo the district to develop a distance learning and Covid19-compliant classroom strategy.