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Monrovia Weekly ArcAdiA Weekly MONDAY, MARCH 28 - APRIL 3, 2011 VOLUME X, NO. VIII
Tom Chavez named Temple City’s Mayor Election Brings Incumbants Back to City Council
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San Gabriel Voters Mix it up with Newcomer Harrington and Incumbent Costanzo - Councilmembers Elected Amid Low Voter Turnout
John R. Harrington is sworn in Tuesday night - Photo by Bill Harrington
Tom Chavez (left) is now Mayor of Temple City -Photo by Terry Miller
Following the swearing in of three council members to their elected
posts, the Temple City Council named its new mayor and mayor pro tem:
Former Temple City Mayor Wilson Headed for Trial by April 22
Cathe Wilson in Court last year - Photo by Terry Miller
Former Temple City Mayor Cathe Wilson appeared in court on Thursday on bribery and perjury charges that is may finally be
heading for trial next month. Wilson is now slated to appear again in court on
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Tom Chavez and Vince Yu, respectively. In a unanimous action
Monday night, the coun-
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With only 14.5% voter turnout at the polls on March 8, first-time candidate John R. Harrington and incumbent Juli Costanzo were elected to the two San Gabriel City Council seats. At the conclusion of the preliminary tabulation however, 462 ballots remained unverified. A manual re-count was held on Monday,
March 21. Harrington and Costanzo’s victories were confirmed along with the following results: City Council – John R. Harrington - 1634 Juli Costanzo - 1341 Chin Ho Liao - 1250 Philip Hu – 986 Council Members Harrington and Costanzo
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Landowner sues Monrovia, redevelopment agency over proposes Gold Line Maintenance Yard BY SUSAN MOTANDER Two weeks ago notice was sent that the City would hold a special joint meeting of the City Council and Monrovia Redevelopment Agency (MRA) on March 22. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the sale of the land for the Gold Line Authorities’ Maintenance Yard. The land, currently owned by the Monrovia Redevelopment Agency (MRA) The meeting was again noticed by Mayor Mary Ann Lutz at last week’s regular council meeting. According to Lutz the details of the sale were still being discussed at the time to the regular meeting. Lutz said that the city was satisfied with the agreement, but had not
yet had verification of the agreement by the Gold Line Construction Authority (GLCA). To that end the documents were made available yesterday to all interested parties, so that the matter could be discussed and acted upon at that meeting. The reason for urgency on the issue of the sale of the property is that for the last several weeks, the governor and state legislature has been discussing seizing the assets of local California cities’ redevelopment agencies. The state would then be obligated to pay the debt on the redevelopment agencies bonds and to continue to pay the local school and community college districts’ share of
the proceeds from the tax revenues of already developed properties. The state would, however, keep the cities’ share of those proceeds. At least this is the provision being discussed in Sacramento. She indicated that without the approval of the GLCA, the matter could not be acted upon at the special meeting. The approval has not yet been received. The matter was heard and continued to the next regularly scheduled city council meeting. City Manager Scott Ochoa had explained in the course of the meeting that issues having to do with the MRA and the sale of property required two weeks’ notice, hence the matter
was continued to April She went on to explain that the length of the meeting was due largely to an e-mail sent by Council Member Tom Adams to the city manager, city clerk, and editors of the Star News and a local blog. Most of the comments by the council were in reference to that e-mail. Public Input on the original items was also allowed as well as response to the e-mail from Adams. In regard to the originally scheduled agenda item, the sale of MRA property to the GLCA, the city has asserted that it needs to sell the property to ensure the Gold Line Extension will be completed.
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