BROOMAND ONLY INCUMBENT RUNNING BEHIND.

Byline: Cecilia Chan Staff Writer

Most of the incumbents were leading late Tuesday to fill seats in local city council and school board races.

However, in Westlake Village, City Councilman Iraj Broomand appeared to have lost his seat while Councilman Mark Rutherford was heading for another four years, to be joined by newcomers Bob Slavin and Susan McSweeney. Opponent Ron Klamert was trailing.

``I'm not really quite sure whether this is the final verdict yet,'' said Broomand, who was tracking the election results on the government- access cable channel.

Broomand attributed his showing at the polls to a last-minute mailer sent out by the Coalition for Competent Leadership targeting him for defeat.

``The negative campaigning that went on, a total lie, that has had some effect,'' Broomand said. ``I think that's unfortunate; the whole idea of negative campaigning is beginning to take hold in this area.

``We've never had this kind of thing in the past and I intend to fight against it in the future whether I win or lose.''

In neighboring Agoura Hills, voters favored returning all three incumbents to their seats, despite a political hit piece against two of the incumbents, sponsored by the same group that circulated a flier against Broomand.

Councilmen Ed Corridori, Jeff Reinhardt and Denis Weber were leading opponents Melvin Adams, Dan Crisafulli, Ken Horton, George C. Thomas and Bob Wachs.

``We've had a great four years in our city, so many successes,'' Corridori said. ``It's hard to imagine why people would want to make changes.''

Voters split when it came to the city's two bed-tax measures, T and U.

Voters were comfortable in voting for Measure T, which again raises the city's 1990 transient occupancy tax, this time from 6 percent to 10 percent, a hike that was called into question by a court ruling.

However, they came out against Measure U, which would give the council the authority to adjust the bed tax rate within a range of 4 percent without having to go to a vote of the people.

Incumbent Judy Jordan appeared headed for victory in her run for a third term on the Las Virgenes Unified School District board, which oversees 13 schools and more than 13,000 students from Calabasas, Agoura Hills and Westlake Village.

With two incumbents not running again, newcomers Cindy Iser and Gordon Whitehead took the lead ahead of Bicky Rippe and Bob Charney.