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Council meeting: December 10, 2002 Santa Monica, CA
To: Mayor and Councilmembers
From: Director of Records & Election Services
Subject: Resolution of the City Council of the City of Santa Monica
Accepting the Official Canvass and Official Statement of
Votes Cast for the Consolidated Municipal Election Held on
November 5, 2002, and Declaring the Results Thereof
INTRODUCTION
On November 5, 2002, a consolidated municipal election was held in the City of
Santa Monica with the purpose of electing four members to the Santa Monica
Community College District Board of Trustees, four members to the Santa
Monica-Malibu Unified School District, three commissioners to the Santa Monica
Rent Control Board, and three members to the Santa Monica City Council.
The City Council also placed six measures on the ballot. The measures placed
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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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?
BACKGROUND
The Registrar Recorder/County Clerk of the County of Los Angeles has
submitted to the City Clerk a certified canvass of the votes cast for all candidates
and for the ballot measures. The results, as reported by the County Clerk, are as
follows:
Candidates elected to the Santa Monica Community College Board of Trustees:
CANDIDATE VOTES
D EHRHART-MORRISON 16,58121.7
NANCY GREENSTEIN 15,47620.25
CAROLE CURREY 13,03917.06
HERB RONEY 12,99617.01
Candidates elected to the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District:
CANDIDATE VOTES
JULIA BROWNLEY 17,23521.66
EMILY BLOOMFIELD 17,15721.56
SHANE MCLOUD 14,24717.91
OSCAR DELA TORRE 13,51516.99
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Candidates elected as Commissioners to the City of Santa Monica Rent Control
Board:
CANDIDATE VOTES
BETTY S MUELLER 14,67629.54
JENNIFER F KENNEDY 13,18126.53
ALAN TOY 12,63825.44
Candidates elected to the Santa Monica City Council:
CANDIDATE VOTES
PAM OCONNOR 13,39618.93
KEVIN MCKEOWN 13,20018.65
BOB HOLBROOK 11,16415.77
Measures GG, HH, II, and JJ were defeated, and Measures FF and KK were
approved by the voters by the following votes:
Measure FF:
FF - EVICTION PROTECTIONS - YES
17,09062.74
NO
10,15037.26
Measure KK:
KK - TORCA TAX REVENUES - YES
12,98950.55
NO
12,70849.45
RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the resolution accepting the certified canvass
of the votes cast at the municipal election be adopted.
Prepared by: Maria M. Stewart, Director of Records & Election Services
Attachment: Resolution
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