10 CANDIDATES TO VIE FOR 3 SEATS ON GLENDALE CITY COUNCIL.Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer As Glendale contends with a $5 million budget deficit, rising crime and a new wave of hillside and downtown development, voters must decide who will lead the Jewel City into the 21st century. Three seats on the five-member City Council are up for election April 1. All three incumbents, Mayor Sheldon Baker and council members Mary Ann Plumley and Rick Reyes, are seeking second terms. David Weaver
The Weavers are small passerine birds related to the finches. These are seed-eating birds with rounded conical bills, most of which breed in sub-Saharan Africa, with fewer species in tropical , president of Glenoaks Canyon Homeowners Association is making his third bid for the council, and former Mayor Ginger ginger, common name for members of the Zingiberaceae, a family of tropical and subtropical perennial herbs, chiefly of Indomalaysia. The aromatic oils of many are used in making condiments, perfumes, and medicines, especially stimulants and preparations to ease Bremberg is looking to return to City Hall. The field of challengers also includes Kahtan Bayati, a former city traffic engineer; Gus Gomez, a former prosecutor prosecutor Government attorney who presents the state's case against the defendant in a criminal prosecution. In some countries (France, Japan), public prosecution is carried out by a single office. In the U.S., states and counties have their own prosecutors. ; Mike Smith, whose company restores old buildings; and David E. Wallis and John Beach, both regular speakers during the council's public comment period. Weaver said the level of interest in the local race is high. ``People are really upset out there,'' Weaver said. ``There's more desperation in their voices.'' Bremberg, president of the Chevy Chase Chevy Chase (chĕv`ē), town (1990 pop. 8,559), Montgomery co., W central Md., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; founded as a village, inc. 1914. Homeowners Association, faults the current council for robbing the capital budget to pay for general fund items, leaving city infrastructure in disrepair. ``When you can't repair streets because you're taking money from the capital budget to pay the general fund, you're in trouble,'' Bremberg said. Bremberg is also among a pack of residents irate i·rate adj. 1. Extremely angry; enraged. See Synonyms at angry. 2. Characterized or occasioned by anger: an irate phone call. about the city's handling of the El Tovar debacle. This week, investigators hired by the council released a report critical of the city's handling of permits for a 13,700-square-foot mansion MANSION. This term is synonymous with house. (q.v.) 1 Chit. Pr. 167; 2 T. R. 502; 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 215, n. 35; 9 B. & C. 681; S. C. 17 E. C. L. R. 472, and the cases there cited; Com. Dig. Justices, P 5; 3 Serg. & Rawle, 199. at 3150 El Tovar Drive, concluding favoritism for the developer allowed him to build the home twice as big as city plans allow. Baker admitted the report was an ``embarrassment'' for the city. But the mayor said he wants to follow through on reforming city management to make sure such fiascos don't happen again. In addition, Baker said he's eager to continue work on the city's Downtown Strategic Plan, a blueprint blueprint, white-on-blue photographic print, commonly of a working drawing used during building or manufacturing. The plan is first drawn to scale on a special paper or tracing cloth through which light can penetrate. for how the heart of the city should be developed over the next 20 years. He's also been a leader in efforts to resolve differences with the city of Burbank over the expansion of Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, and wants to see that effort through in a second term. Reyes, a retired police officer, said he wants to add 40 new police officers to the city's overworked department, saying the ranks have not risen with the city's population boom over the last 10 years. ``We've got to keep the city fundamentally safe. That's the No. 1 priority,'' Reyes said. Plumley, meanwhile, said her proudest achievement as a council member was the creation of the Neighborhood Task Force, a program initially designed to get residents of the poorest sections of South Glendale more involved in city government. Plumley, Baker and Reyes have all been touting touting the making of personal representations by a veterinarian to persons who are not clients in an attempt to solicit their business. the addition of 14 new officers to the Glendale Police Department during their tenure on the council as well as the creation of a community-based policing program. But to challenger Weaver the council has not been proactive enough in dealing with the city's increasing problems with gang violence. He points out that among 200 officers only four are assigned to the city's gang detail. ``There are nine gangs in Glendale with about 3,000 members,'' Weaver said. ``Four police officers is not enough.'' Smith, whose company is called Historic Preservation Historic preservation is the act of maintaining and repairing existing historic materials and the retention of a property's form as it has evolved over time. When considering the United States Department of Interior's interpretation: "Preservation calls for the existing form, , is running as an advocate for residents and small business. He is known locally as a columnist columnist, the writer of an essay appearing regularly in a newspaper or periodical, usually under a constant heading. Although originally humorous, the column in many cases has supplanted the editorial for authoritative opinions on world problems. for the Glendale News-Press, where he has taken a slow-growth position on both commercial and residential development. Gomez, meanwhile, said the biggest problem in his neighborhood is overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. . He said the city should direct redevelopment dollars away from the business core and into better housing for the southern section of the city. ``The way were going to change things in South Glendale is to give people a stake in the community,'' Gomez said. Bayati said he is running to reform City Hall, which he battled in 1994 after he received poor performance evaluations Performance evaluation The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return as a traffic engineer. He claimed he was targeted because he complained about poor management practices in his department. ``(City government) is not only inefficient, there's total corruption,'' Bayati said. He proposes cutting across city departments to hire 300 new employees for the Police Department. Beach, who has run for council several times, is a constant fixture An article in the nature of Personal Property which has been so annexed to the realty that it is regarded as a part of the real property. That which is fixed or attached to something permanently as an appendage and is not removable. at local council meetings, railing against the way water bills are tallied and illegal signs that people post for garage sales. Wallis, who has also run for council before, is also a frequent speaker at City Council meetings, typically calling on city leaders to keep the city budget balanced and run departments more efficiently. CAPTION(S): 10 Photos Photo: (1) BAKER (2) BAYATI (3) BEACH (4) BREMBERG (5) GOMEZ (6) PLUMLEY (7) REYES (8) SMITH (9) WALLIS (10) WEAVER |
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