In Ventura County Community College District Area 4, Joe Piechowski had 16,763 votes, just under 36.2% of the total, in the tallies released by the county by 10:33 p.m. Tuesday, sneaking ahead of incumbent Bernardo Perez, who had 16,535 votes, or 35.7%. Ruth Luevanos was a few thousand votes behind with 13,072, or 28.2%.

There are four elections relating to the Los Angeles Unified School District on the ballot this year. The seven-member school board of education sets policy for the nation’s second-largest school district,

If approved, the measures would authorize the districts to take out millions of dollars in bonds, large loans similar to a home mortgage that would be repaid through new property