VOTE WILL DECIDE SEVERAL COUNCIL RACES, MEASURES.Byline: Daily News Besides the high-profile race for mayor of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , voters will cast ballots Tuesday in city council contests in Los Angeles, Calabasas and San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. as well as other local races and issues. Eight council seats will be up in Los Angeles including the 11th District where Westside Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski Cindy Miscikowski represented the 11th District on the Los Angeles City Council for two full terms from 1997 through 2005. Previously, she was an aide to Councilman Marvin Braude and the Executive Director of the Skitball Cultural Center in its beginning stages. is forced out by term limits. The three-way contest to succeed Miscikowski features longtime cable-TV host Bill Rosendahl Bill Rosendahl is a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing Council District 11, including the communities of Brentwood, Del Rey, Mar Vista, Marina del Rey, Pacific Palisades, Palms, Playa del Rey, Playa Vista, Venice, West Los Angeles and Westchester. , community activist Flora Gil Krisiloff and labor attorney Angela Reddock. Two challengers are running against incumbent Councilman Jack Weiss in the 5th District, which stretches from the Encino-Sherman Oaks area to the Westside. They are attorney David T. Vahedi and businessman Gregory K. Martayan. In the west San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , 3rd District Councilman Dennis Zine's challenger is businessman Jeff Bornstein. East of downtown, 1st District Councilman Ed P. Reyes is opposed by community leader Ernest Sanchez and businessman Stephen Sarinana-Lampson. In the downtown area, 9th District Councilwoman Jan Perry faces Peter Torres, a police officer who ran against her four years ago, and educator Edward Reyes. No opponents are on the ballot against City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo or City Council incumbents Alex Padilla, Eric Garcetti and Janice Hahn. City Controller Laura Chick faces perennial candidate Mervin Leon Evans. In races for the Los Angeles Community College District's Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. , only two of the three incumbents face challengers. Three Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. board members are on the ballot without opposition. In Calabasas, seven candidates seek three seats on the City Council. In San Fernando, six people are running for two council seats, and City Treasurer Margarita Solis is unopposed. Los Angeles voters will decide on two ballot measures, one to help hire port police officers and the second to allow retired police and firefighters to return to active duty. Neither measure has organized opposition. |
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