Blue v. Stockton

DIMOND, Associate Justice.

The question for decision is whether a member of the school board of a city school district is an “elected public official of an incorporated municipality within the state” 1 , and thus subject to the recall provisions of Chapter 121 S.L.A.1959.

In accordance with that statute, appellant obtained signatures on a petition requesting the Common Council of the City of Seward, Alaska, to order a special recall election for the purpose of removing from office four members of the city school board. The petitions were submitted to the Council in June 1959, but it refused to…