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Eight hopefuls compete for three open city council seats
by Robb Fulcher
Hermosa voters will stare down a November ballot with eight candidates vying for three open seats on the city council. All eight met an Aug. 15 deadline to file nomination papers at City Hall and have their names placed on the Nov. 6 ballot.
The candidates include two-term incumbent JR Reviczky, city school board member Mary Lou Weiss, planning commissioners Pete Tucker and Ronald Pizer, and Public Works Commissioner Michael Keegan, who made a strong run for a council seat two years ago.
Also on the ballot will be Recreation Commissioner Robert Bell, Brian J. Murphy and Art Yoon. Bell has informed city officials that he is withdrawing from the race, but his name will appear on the ballot because his notification came too late to remove it.
Four others picked up the nomination papers but did not complete and return them, and so will not appear on the ballot: local activist Donley Falkenstien, Mark Duwe, Thomas H. Vidal and Chad M. Nell.
Also not on the ballot will be Patrick J. Johnson. He handed in nomination papers but the Los Angeles County Registrar’s Office found the documents lacked the proper number of signatures by registered voters, according to the Hermosa Beach city clerk’s office.
Two-term council members Julie Oakes and John Bowler, the current mayor, are not running for reelection Nov. 6, leaving Reviczky the only incumbent seeking one of the three open council seats.
School spots set
Four people handed in nomination papers to run for three open seats on the Hermosa Beach City School Board, according to the county registrar’s office.
Lance Widman, a community college educator, Linda Beck, also an educator, accountant Gregory Breen and engineering manager James Hausle secured spots on the ballot.
Paul Herriott took out nomination papers but did not return them.
The Nov. 6 ballot will also contain three initiatives; one that would place further restrictions upon some beach events, a second that would place term limits on city council members, and a third that would repeal the city’s utility users tax. ER