City Council Meeting:  December 10, 2002                                  Santa Monica, CA

 

 

 

RESOLUTION NO. ______(CCS)

(CITY COUNCIL SERIES)

RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY

OF SANTA MONICA ACCEPTING THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY

 REGISTRAR RECORDER/COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICIAL CANVASS

 AND OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF VOTES CAST FOR THE

 CONSOLIDATED MUNICIPAL ELECTION HELD ON

 NOVEMBER 5, 2002, AND DECLARING THE RESULTS THEREOF

 

 

WHEREAS, a Consolidated General Municipal Election was held in the City of Santa Monica on November 5, 2002, as required by law; and

 

WHEREAS, the provisions of the Elections Code of the State of California for the holding of elections in Charter cities were complied with in that notice of the election was given in the time, form and manner as provided by law; voting precincts were properly established; election officers were appointed; votes were cast, received and canvassed; and the returns were made and declared in the time, form and manner as required; and

 

WHEREAS, the Los Angeles Registrar Recorder/County Clerk canvassed the returns of the election and certified the results to the City Council, and those results are attached and made a part hereof as “Exhibit A”,

 

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:

 

SECTION 1.  The vote totals for the Consolidated Municipal Election held on November 5, 2002, in the City of Santa Monica, as certified by the Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder/County Clerk, shall be and hereby are approved and adopted as the formal vote count of the City of Santa Monica for said offices and said measures of said election.

 

SECTION 2.  The names of the candidates on the ballot were:

 

College District                                                                   SM-MUSD

Board of Trustees                                                             Board of Education

 

Dorothy Ehrhart-Morrison                                                     Shane McLoud

Nancy Greenstein                                                                 Julia Brownley

Bill Winslow                                                                           Emily Bloomfield

Carole Currey                                                                        Brenda Gottfried

Nancy Cattell-Luckenbach                                                   Oscar de la Torre

Herb Roney                                                                            Ann Cochran

                                                                                                Nancy Kelly (write-in)

Santa Monica Rent Control Board

 

Betty Smith Mueller

Jennifer F. Kennedy

Thomas David Carter

Alan Toy

 

Santa Monica City Council

 

Bob Holbrook                                                Chuck Allord

Kevin McKeown                                            Pam O’Connor

Matteo Dinolfo                                               Pro Se

Abby Arnold                                                   Jerry Rubin

Josefina Santiago Aranda

 

 

            SECTION 3.  The number of total ballots cast for this election was:

Santa Monica Community College District Board of Trustees

 

REGISTERED           PRECINCT                ABSENTEE               TOTAL

VOTERS                    BALLOTS                  BALLOTS                  BALLOTS

 

67,790                        29,508                          7,536                        37,044

Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education:

 

REGISTERED           PRECINCT                ABSENTEE               TOTAL

VOTERS                    BALLOTS                  BALLOTS                  BALLOTS

 

67,877                        29,508                          7,589                        37,097

 

 

City of Santa Monica:

 

REGISTERED           PRECINCT                ABSENTEE               TOTAL

VOTERS                    BALLOTS                  BALLOTS                  BALLOTS

 

56,501                       24,884                          5,969                           30,853

 

 

            SECTION 4.  The following persons were elected to office as follows:

 

Santa Monica Community College Board of Trustees:

                        CANDIDATE                                     VOTES

D EHRHART-MORRISON

 

16,581

21.7%

NANCY GREENSTEIN

 

15,476

20.25%

CAROLE CURREY

 

13,039

17.06%

HERB RONEY

 

12,996

17.01%

 

Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District Board of Education:

 

                        CANDIDATE                                     VOTES

JULIA BROWNLEY

 

17,235

21.66%

EMILY BLOOMFIELD

 

17,157

21.56%

SHANE MCLOUD

 

14,247

17.91%

OSCAR DELA TORRE

 

13,515

16.99%

 

 

           

 

 

 

City of Santa Monica Rent Control Board:

 

                        CANDIDATE                                     VOTES

BETTY S MUELLER

 

14,676

29.54%

JENNIFER F KENNEDY

 

13,181

26.53%

ALAN TOY

 

12,638

25.44%

 

Santa Monica City Council:

 

                        CANDIDATE                                     VOTES

PAM OCONNOR

 

13,396

18.93%

KEVIN MCKEOWN

 

13,200

18.65%

BOB HOLBROOK

 

11,164

15.77%

           

 

            SECTION 5.  The measures that appeared on the ballot read as follows:

 

            MEASURE FF:  Shall the City Charter’s provisions governing eviction from controlled rental units be amended to extend protections to the spouses, children or domestic partners of tenants who die or become incapacitated, to clarify that the term “housing service” includes the number of tenants authorized to occupy a unit, to clarify how rent increases authorized by state law are computed, to clarify the remedies for unlawful attempts to recover possession, to create specified protections against evictions for occupying tenants who replace authorized co-tenants or subtenants, and to require that the Municipal Code contain protections against tenant harassment?  The Measure was approved by the following vote:

 

                        YES:   17,090            (62.74%)                               

                        NO:     10,150            (37.26%)

 

            MEASURE GG:  Shall the City Charter be amended to increase Rent Control Board members’ compensation from $75.00 to $150.00 per meeting, with a limit of $6,000.00 per year, and to provide that they shall receive health care benefits?  The Measure failed by the following vote:

 

                        YES:   10,785            (39.47%)

                        NO:     16,538            (60.63%)

 

                        MEASURE HH:  Shall the City Charter and Municipal Code be amended to change the system of electing City Council members by creating City Council districts, imposing term limits for Council members, and establishing a municipal primary election with runoffs in the fall, to add to the seven-member Council a mayor, who would be elected City-wide and would serve as the Council’s non-voting chairperson, and to change the process for Council actions by giving the mayor the power to veto Council actions, including emergency actions, which veto could be nullified if a specified number of Council members vote to override it?  The Measure failed by the following vote:

 

                        YES:   9,732              (35.86%)

                        NO:     17,410            (64.14%)

 

            MEASURE II:  Shall the City Charter be amended to establish procedures for converting apartment buildings, trailer parks and other rental housing to condominiums or other common ownership housing, which would be exempt from certain planning and zoning laws, and procedures for allowing tenants to either become owners or continue as tenants with specified rights and protections?  The Measure failed by the following vote:

 

                        YES:   9,845              (35.84%)

                        NO:     17,627            (64.16%)

 

            MEASURE JJ:         Shall Ordinance No. 2015 (CCS) establishing local minimum wage requirements, initially set at $10.50 per hour with health care benefits, or at $12.25 per hour without health care benefits, applicable to the City, its service contractors, and private businesses, which are located in the coastal and downtown areas and have gross annual receipts over $5 million, and establishing an exemption for businesses which show severe economic hardship, be adopted?  The Measure failed by the following vote:

 

                        YES:   13,860            (48.31%)

                        NO:     14,830            (51.69%)

 

MEASURE KK:  Shall the City Charter be amended to eliminate the restriction on the percentage of TORCA tax revenues that can be used to develop or subsidize low income housing so that any portion of the TORCA revenues, except those used for administrative costs, can be used for low income housing?  The Measure was approved by the following vote:

 

                        YES:   12,989            (50.55%)

                        NO:     12,708            (49.45%)

                                                                                   

            SECTION 6.  The City Clerk shall enter on the records of the Santa Monica City Council, a statement of the result of the election showing:  (1) the total number of votes cast for the offices and measures in the election; (2) the names of the persons voted for; (3) the text of the measures voted upon; (4) the office that each person was running for; (5) the number of votes given at each precinct to each person, and for and against the ballot measures; and, (6) the total number of votes given to each person, and for and against the ballot measures.

           


            SECTION 7.  The City Clerk shall immediately make and deliver to each of the persons so elected a Certificate of Election signed by the City Clerk and authenticated.  The City Clerk shall also administer to each person elected the Oath of Office prescribed in the Constitution of the State of California and shall have each person subscribe to it and file it in the office of the City Clerk.  All of the persons so elected shall then be inducted into the office to which they have been elected.

            SECTION 8.  The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution, and thenceforth and thereafter the same shall be in full force and effect.

 

APPOVED AS TO FORM:

 

_________________________

MARSHA JONES MOUTRIE

City Attorney