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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - April 19, 1994 - CCCITY OF AZUSA MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL REORGANIZATION MEETING APRIL 19, 1994 - 7:30 P.M. The City Council of the City of Azusa met in regular session for the purpose of canvassing returns and installation of elected officers, at the above date and time in the Civic Auditorium. Mayor Moses Called the meeting to order and led in the salute to the Flag. ROLL CALL PRESENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: DANGLEIS, MADRID, NARANJO, ALEXANDER, MOSES ABSENT COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE City Administrator Garcia, Chief of Police Nelson, Utilities Director Hsu, Community Development Director Bruckner, Director of Finance Craig, Community Services Director Guarrera, City Librarian Maghsoudi, Redevelopment Director Cervantes, City Clerk Solis, Office Specialist Aguilar. Councilman Alexander offered a Resolution entitled: Call to Order Roll Call Also Present A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA, Res. 94-C61 CALIFORNIA, RECITING THE FACT OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL Canvass of ELECTION HELD IN THE CITY ON APRIL 12, 1994, DECLARING THE 4/12/94 RESULTS AND SUCH OTHER MATTERS AS PROVIDED BY THE Muni election PROVISIONS OF LAW. Moved by Councilman Alexander, seconded by Councilman Naranjo to waive further reading and adopt. Resolution passed and adopted by the following vote of the Council: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: DANGLEIS, MADRID, NARANJO, ALEXANDER, MOSES NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE As a matter of record, the Resolution declaring the results of the General Municipal Election is incorporated in the Minutes. RESOLUTION NO. 94-C61 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA, CALIFORNIA, RECITING THE FACT OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION HELD IN THE CITY ON APRIL 12, 1994, DECLARING THE RESULTS AND SUCH OTHER MATTERS AS PROVIDED BY THE PROVISIONS OF LAW. WHEREAS, a general municipal election was held and conducted in the City of Azusa, California, on Tuesday, April 12, 1994, as required by law, and WHEREAS, notice of the election was duly and regularly given in time, form and manner as provided by law; that voting precincts were properly established; that election officers were appointed and that in all respects the election was held and conducted and the votes were cast, received and canvassed and the returns made and declared in time, form and manner as required by the provisions of the Elections Code of the State of California for the holding of elections in cities, and WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution No. 94-C19 adopted on February 7, 1994, the City Clerk of the City canvassed the returns of the election and has certified the results to this City Council, the results are received, attached and made a part hereof as "Exhibit A." NOW, 'THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA, CALIFORNIA, DOES RESOLVE, DECLARE, DETERMINE AND ORDER AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That the whole number of votes (ballots) cast in the City except absent voter ballots was 2720. That the whole number of absent voter ballots cast in the City was 385, making a total of 3105 votes cast in the City. SECTION 2. That the names of persons voted for at the election for Mayor are as follows: STEPHEN J. ALEXANDER TONY D. NARANJO JOHN R. DANGLEIS That the manes of persons voted for at the election for Member of the City Council are as follows: SECTION 3. That the number of votes given at each precinct and the number of votes given in the City to each of the persons above named for the respective offices for which the persons were candidates as listed in Exhibit "A" attached. 04/19/94 PAGE TWO DON FLOWERS CLARO PEREZ ROMY PANGILINAN HARRY L. STEMRICH DIANE MORITZ-BEEBE ARMANDO L. CAMARENA ART MORALES PEGGY MARTINEZ C.L. NINE DAVID O. HARDISON SECTION 3. That the number of votes given at each precinct and the number of votes given in the City to each of the persons above named for the respective offices for which the persons were candidates as listed in Exhibit "A" attached. 04/19/94 PAGE TWO SECTION 4. The City Council does declare and determine that: STEPHEN J. ALEXANDER was elected as Mayor for the full term of two years; DIANE MORITZ-BEEBE was elected as Member of the City Council for the full term of four years; DAVID o. HARDISON was elected as Member of the City Council for the full term of four years. SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall enter on the records of the City Council of the City, a statement of the result of the election, showing: 1. The whole number of votes (ballots) cast in the City; 2. The names of the persons voted for; 3. For what office each person was voted for; 4 The number of votes given at each precinct to each person; 5. The total number of votes given to each person. SECTION 6. That 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; that 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 them subscribe to it and file it in the Office of the City Clerk. Each and all of the persons so elected shall than be inducted into the respective office to which they have been elected. SECTION 7. That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Resolution and enter it into the book of original resolutions. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 19th day of April, 1994. MAY I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Azusa at a reorganization meeting thereof, held on the 19th day of April, 1994, by the following vote of the Council: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: DANGLEIS, MADRID, NARANJO, ALEXANDER, MOSES NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE 04/19/94 PAGE THREE EXHIBIT "A" CITY CLERK'S CERTIFICATE OF CANVASS I, Adolph A. Solis, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, County of Los Angeles, State of California, duly authorized by Resolution No. 94-C19, adopted by the City Council of said City on the 7th day of February, 1994, do hereby certify that I have canvassed the returns of the regular general municipal election held in said Cityon the 12th day of April, 1994, and find that the number of votes given at each precinct and the number of votes gi iyon inCity to persons voted/for. the respective offices for which said persons were candidates were as follows:// // // Dated: April 19, 1994 City Clerk of Azusa, CA M M M Precinct MAYOR Total 1 8 10 16 5 79 81 84 Absentee Stephen J. Alexander Ton A Naranjo John R. Dan leis Total Vote COUNCIL 1 254 658 1 125 3037 104 66 81 251 124 59 75 258 105 59 69 233 13751 8718 96 320 106 a6315 99 J67 223 J5546 138 115 91 52 130 273 135 103 174 95 34 75 215 445 61 129 198 378 Don Flowers Claro Perez Romy Torres Pan iU an Harry L. Stemrich Diane Moritz -Beebe Armando L. Camarena Art Morales Peggy Rubio Martinez C. L. "Chuck" Nine David O. Hardison Total Vote Total Ballots Can 589 187 267. 650 912 371 748 662 108 1,270 5 764 3 105 28 53 48 52 54 29 59 56 7 76 462 255 57 10 27 62 47 31 81 81 10 88 494 265 1 35 23 23 1 64 53 39 64 67 6 74 448 2361 39 14 33 1 64 63 49 123 112 4 92 11 593 329 1 21 5 11 18 24 22 27 30 2 39 199 109 18 2 7 23 41 7 23 16 6 34 177 101 65 3 18 63 78 20 51 50 4 93 445 232 28 10 17 36 26 22 44 23 6 51 1 263 141 19 4 9 24 37 22 28 14 9 581 2241 118 1 39 13 8 52 124 29 33 49 13 153 513 277 93 12 21 52 95 7 31 6 39 66 40 86 180 72 113 38 97 70 35 28 40 78 26 68 18 245 840 455 10 13 99 168 387 202 719 385 M M M Councilman Dangleis made the following statement: "I think that ...and I'll get rid of the sour grape stuff first, cause it was not intended that way, but I think the Azusa electorate missed the boat one more time as they have for several years. I think they had the opportunity to, for the first time in many years, to start off with a five (5) member Council all on five (5) cylinders, if you will, moving toward a common goal of a better Azusa, however, I'm very confident, I have a great deal of confidence in the City Council that was elected in this particular election, I think that it's going to be very possible to move ahead. Redevelopment is necessary, regardless of what you may hear. You will hear, either this evening, or in the near future, words such as "mandate", by this election, do not be misled by that. 1250 votes does not make a mandate, 1750 were the opposite, so there is no mandate. The plural mandate and the shame of Azusa, and other cities are the 10,000 voters that don't vote at all, and that's the real shame; because 3,000 people, year in and year out, in Azusa and a like percentage in other communities make this decision. For myself, I've been here just short of 36 years, about 30 of those have been in public service with the City of Azusa, in one form or another, and, of those years I'm very proud. It's time now for the younger to have a shot at it, because I'm not going anywhere; if anyone wants any assistance they can call me, they will not see me in the Council auditorium, but if anyone wants any help on anything or if anyone wants my counsel, for whatever it's worth, I stand ready to help anyone in Azusa, and I will not stop my volunteering with worthwhile organizations, such as the Azusa Youth Program and similar activities, I thank all of the Azusa people who have supported me in my various ventures through my career, and I wish you the best of everything, thank you very much". Outgoing Mayor Moses made the following statement: "As for myself, I think the City of Azusa made a wise choice. I feel that the founding fathers wanted a checks and balance system and I believe that the Citizens of Azusa want the same. If you would have elected five people that all think the same way, then perhaps you would have created a dictatorship, and this is one of the things the founding fathers did when they created this great country to have a checks and balance system, so its healthy to have five different views. I would shutter to see if you would have all Alexander's, all Moses's or any other one all five. I think it makes politics healthy, it keeps politics honest, when you have different individuals from different factions one always checks the other, such as republican and democrat. Anytime the laundry's dirty, one faction or the other will pick it up. So now getting off of my philosophy, I just want to thank all the citizens of Azusa for giving me the greatest honor that any individual could have in his whole lifetime. I've been elected nine times here in the City of Azusa and I'm very proud of that and I'm very proud of the people of the City of Azusa that selected me. I have given you my loyal best and if I go on any further I will give more. So once again, I want to thank my staff, I want to thank my City Administrator, I think we have a fine one, Henry Garcia's probably one of the finest one I've seen in years and I think he's doing a great job here in the City of Azusa. And he's another one that realizes that we have five different individuals up here and he has to try and work with all five of us. That's what makes a good City Administrator, so he'll do a good job. I want to thank the rest of the staff for the fine job they've done in the past two years. And also all of the Councilmembers. I want to thank Cristina Madrid for putting together EDAC, which has the City end up going in the right direction. I want to thank each and every one of them for individuality. Tony for working with Police as hard as he has. Alexander for working as close as he can with all the people in the City. I think all of them have done a fine job and we've kept the zoo out of the City of Azusa for the past two years and I would like to see that continue. So, once again, I want to thank each and every one of you out there for the greatest years that I've ever had in my life and for giving me something to say, finally, in a lifetime of one person. Thank you, God Bless you, Que Dios los bendiga, muchas gracias, thank you. 04/19/94 PACE FIVE Statement by John Dangleis Statement by Eugene Moses The Honorable Dan Oki, Presiding Judge of Citrus Municipal Court administered the Oath of Office Oath of Office to the newly elected Mayor Stephen J. Alexander, Councilmember to elected Diane Moritz -Beebe, and Councilmember David O. Hardison. officials/D. Oki Incoming Councilmember Diane Moritz -Beebe made the following statement: "Thank you Mr. Mayor. I would just tike to take this brief opportunity to thank all of those who were so supportive during the campaign. Especially my family, my husband, neighbors, friends, and all of you who really did not know me approximately forty-five days ago. It is a true privilege and an honor to be able to be sitting up here with the rest of my colleagues and I look forward to serving you in the next four years. Please know that I'm here to work as a member of a strong supportive team and I look forward to serving the next four years with my fellow colleagues up here. If anytime you feel there is a need to contact me, please do so. I am your public servant now and please don't hesitate to contact me at all. Thank you very much for your support and I look forward to serving you". Incoming Councilmember David O. Hardison made the following statement: "Thanks Stephen, I'll make it short. My goal on the Azusa City Council is to make the citizens of Azusa, not casualties of a divided Council or victims of political infighting, but moreover, beneficiaries of a strong united Council dedicated to one thing and that is for what is best for Azusa. While I'm not pro tax by any stretch of the imagination, I am however pro reality and I promise you that your tax dollar will be spent wisely, prudently, to promote Azusa to its fullest. I have a whole gagle of people to thank so, rather, for the length of time I will just say thank you. Of course the ever so popular thank you to my wife, that goes without saying, and if Joe Guarrera's here, that's Jody, with a "y". Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to thank you for your vote, your confidence, and I assure you that it will not be gone astray. Thank you". Incoming Mayor Stephen J. Alexander made the following statement: "First, let me thank all those people who were responsible for working my campaign, to assist me, to give me guidance when I needed it, to prod me when I needed it, to correct me, when I needed it, to be there for the tough time and the good times, and I thank you all for being here tonight. Many of you are here in the audience and listening at home, I appreciate your support and your concern in the City and I appreciate all those people who contributed in the campaign. Especially, want to thank the Mayor who I served under for so long, Eugene F. Moses and he served the City so well, and the Councilmembers I have served with, Tony Naranjo, Cristina Madrid and John Dangleis, and Harry Stemrich, all of you were different individuals with different ideas. I gained insight from everyone of you, and I had disagreements with every one of you, but I value the experience, I had, and I continue to value those experiences and cherish memories of those Councils and I hope as I look forward to this Council that I will have the same memories. The citizens of Azusa made an interesting choice in selection, not only my selection but two new Councilmembers. I think, as always, you choose well, chose well, remains to be seen what we could do as a Council. It's been said that I'm opinionated, and I have strict view on things. I believe that's true. I also believe I am willing to work on this Council with people who received the trust of the voters, which is you and I am willing to work as hard as I can to do what best for Azusa. To be agreeable, when can, and when necessary, to be disagreeable, to disagree without being disagreeable. I seek to work with my fellow Councilmembers, every last one. I seek to work with the citizens of the City, every last one. If you remember, what seems so long ago, the forum that we had, I dedicated my campaign for those who couldn't speak for themselves, I would like to dedicate this administration to those same people. Those people who come day to day, work in the City, seek their lives in our community and rest their fortunes with us, and speak little, bear a great deal. 04/19/94 PAGE SIX Statement by Councilwoman Diane Beebe Statement by Councilman David Hardison Statement by Mayor Stephen J. Alexander I seek to help them in every chance 1 can, from the handicapped to the impoverished, the minority groups that feel unjustly accused of different prejudices and from other individuals in the society. I seek to have their voices heard on this Council and be heard particularly with what I seek to do. This Council and this community is together, we may have different languages, different cultures, and different forces at work, but we all seek to work together for the betterment of Azusa and as long as that continues, we'll work forward. If such a word that I do not intend to use "mandate", there is only one mandate and that is to do the best for our City, and the best as we see it. We're not always right, but we'll try our hardest. Finally, I wish to give a final message to many of my supporters and especially my wife:" "Gracias por to suporto. Yo creo es muy importance yo hablar mucho idiomas, por que to idioma, to hablar espanol, yo creo es necesario yo hablar espanol, to hablar otro idiomas es necesario yo aprendo. Cuando yo quiero trabajo con to es muy importante yo hablar con to idioma. Mi corazon is to corazon, to cultura es mi cultura. Es necesario de culturas no separado para culmination de trabajo en total". "Thank you for your support, thank you for your attendance here. I wholly hope and pray I can live up to the support and obligation that you have so kindly and selfishly bestowed upon me. I thank you to the deepest bottom of my heart. Thank you Azusa". Existing Councilmember Naranjo made the following statement: "Thank you Mayor Alexander. It gives me great pleasure to be here again this evening, to thank everybody who came out April 12th to vote. You exercised your right as a citizen to vote. You chose a City Council, you chose a Council that would be unified and work together for the betterment of the community. I look forward to 'providing the experience and leadership that I've gained over the last six years to help my two new colleagues to go on and provide the leadership necessary so we can continue to make Azusa flourish to become a community we could all be proud of. I'd like to start off by thanking Mayor Eugene Moses for his years of service to the community. Though we didn't agree on many issues, he still done a fine job in his term. It's not every time that someone will go along with what we have to say or what we have to vote on but truly a person sitting in this City Council, sitting on this dias making a decision that they honestly feel in their heart will benefit this community. I stand proud of and welcome and thank those people who do those jobs. I'd like to thank John Dangleis for the experience and leadership that John has helped provide me as a City Councilman who is very worthy and helpful in the decisions I made. Many time I've had decisions that needed the expertise John provide, that expertise as a past Administrator able to shed some light to not only myself by my colleagues in being able to make honest decisions that benefit the community. I thank John for his services, I thank him for being able to still be around here to help us and lend leadership to the community. I thank my colleagues, I welcome Mrs. Madrid to continue to provide the same leadership and support as I would to my City Council. I thank Mrs. Beebe for coming out and giving her time and effort to show the voter that she truly wanted to serve and be a part of this community. You voted her into office and I'm sure she'll do a great job. The same goes for Mr. Hardison and I look forward to working with Mr. Alexander, through we differ in opinion and views, I hope that we together could see what the citizens truly want in this community and set our personal agendas aside and all of us can work for the betterment of what the people who elected us here. So I thank all of you and look forward to working with you in the future. Thank you". 04/19/94 PAGE SEVEN Statement by Councilman Tony Naranjo Existing Councilmember Madrid made the following statement: "Thank you, Mr. Mayor and I welcome you to the seat of Mayor and I'd like to welcome our new colleagues up here. It's a pleasure both of you and I'm sure we're going to have a really exciting time. And I'd like to thank the Mayor for all the work he has done through the years for the City of Azusa and his dedication to this community, because despite his differences, I have always recognized the man that's doing what he believed to be best and what he thought would be in the best interest of the community. For that, I want to acknowledge you that and you'll always be Mr. Mayor for us. And as for John, you'll be sorely missed and it is with great sadness that you'll no longer be seated here with me. The most for Mr. John Dangleis is integrity, cause we had issues of employee negotiations, contracts, those kind of issues and it wasn't the issue of the better hand, it wasn't the issue of the better deal, it was an issue of his word and that John Dangleis was a man of his word and whether you didn't like him or his opinion, you knew where he was coming from and you knew John would not change based on the number of the people in the audience, based on the innuendo, based on the pressure, but a man with integrity and that I appreciate, John, because, the audience is lovely here tonight, we have a wonderful turn out and I welcome all of you. I'm glad you're here tonight and I was surprised we have such a large number and I welcome you but, we don't usually have this kind of participation and when we do, we often forget the people that are at home or the people who have not yet come to our community, or the children that have not yet been born and those are really what government is all about. No just the people at the podium, but the people for which we come here together to make a different community. so, I want to welcome, my new colleagues and I know we have a really exciting time ahead of us and we'll be doing a lot of exciting things, no matter what they say at the podium. Thank you very much. Thank you Mr. Mayor". Statement by Councilwoman Cristina Madrid Moved by Mayor Alexander, seconded by Councilwoman Madrid and carried by roll Naranjo Mayor call that Councilman Naranjo be appointed as Mayor Pro -tempore. Councilman Pro -tempore Naranjo abstaining. Moved by Councilman Naranjo, seconded by Councilwoman Beebe and unanimously Adjourn carried by roll call to adjourn. TIME OF ADJOURNMENT: 7:55 P.M. NEXT RESOLUTION NO. 94-C62. NEXT ORDINANCE NO. 94-06. 04/19/94 PAGE EIGHT a