Grover Beach City Council member resigns, citing health issues
Grover Beach City Council member Barbara Nicolls is resigning at the end of this month, she announced at a city council meeting Monday.
Nicolls, 81, said she is resigning, effective June 30, due to health issues.
“The past months of online meetings have convinced me my health issues interfere with doing my job as well as it needs to be done,” she told the other City Council members during the meeting. “I will miss you all: staff and council, but I’ll be cheerleading for you and contributing to your election campaigns.”
Nicolls was elected to the Grover Beach City Council in 2014. She most recently won re-election in 2018, and was two years into her four-year term.
Nicolls wasn’t the only one with a major announcement Monday night.
Councilwoman Desi Lance announced she would not seek re-election in November.
“I have been so honored to be on this council,” she said at the meeting. “It has been a huge, huge honor. I’m incredibly grateful for all of the people that have faith in me to represent my community, my colleagues that voted to appoint me onto council, it’s been an incredible journey.”
Lance was appointed to the council in 2019 to fill the seat left open when Jeff Lee, formerly a city council member, was elected mayor.
Monday night’s announcements could mean a monumental shift for the Grover Beach City Council’s makeup.
All but one seat, that of Councilwoman Mariam Shah, will be up for election in November.
Lee and Councilwoman Karen Bright, who was appointed in 2019 after former councilwoman Debbie Peterson resigned, are both up for re-election, plus the two empty seats left by Nicolls and Lance.
The application period for candidates for November’s election opens in July.
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