Councilmember Ahmad Zahra announced on Nov. 19 that he would not be seeking reelection come the 2026 election.<\/p>\n
The announcement was made via an Instagram post on Zahra\u2019s account.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m grateful to the many community leaders and residents who have been encouraging me to run for another term, but leadership means staying true to one\u2019s values and purpose,\u201d Zahra wrote in the post.<\/p>\n
This statement was followed by an announcement during the Dec. 2 city council meeting.<\/p>\n
Zahra has served on the Fullerton City Council as a representative for District 5 for two terms, the first in 2018 and the second and current term in 2022.<\/p>\n
Fullerton council members are able to serve three consecutive four-year terms and then must take a four-year gap before serving as a council member for additional terms.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really just wanted to bring that voice and talk about issues in our city that no one had talked about before,\u201d Zahra said. \u201cI think I\u2019ve accomplished that, I don\u2019t know if a third term will add anything new to what I\u2019ve already brought.\u201d<\/p>\n
City council will discuss appointments for mayor and mayor pro-tem at the upcoming meeting on Dec. 16. Additionally, current Mayor Pro Tem Shana Charles has agendized an item proposing an ordinance regarding changes to the selection process. This item is supported by Zahra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Councilmember Ahmad Zahra announced on Nov. 19 that he would not be seeking reelection come the 2026 election.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7443,163,165,164,1610,2628,7442],"class_list":["post-98755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-ahmad-zahra","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-city-council","tag-fullerton","tag-shana-charles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}