Four days after the council vote, landscape contractor Richard Anderson, a 31-year city resident, went to Neighborhoods 2000, organizers of the petition drive to place district elections on the November ballot, and picked up two petition forms. He gathered 40 signatures, filling both forms, in two days. We're blocked out of the process, nobody represents us. We're out of the loop when it comes to politics in Santa Cruz. Neighborhoods 2000 organizers face an April 21 deadline to gather 5,025 signatures.
Organizers say they are about two-thirds of the way to their goal.