Council Committee Takes No Immediate Action On Ballot Measure To Increase Allowable Campaign Contributions BUT Uranga Raises Issue Of "Full Time Council" (Ballot Mesure To Quadruple Council Salaries And Pensions) And Mungo And Zendejas Don't Object

+ Council Committee Takes No Immediate Action On Ballot Measure To Increase Allowable Campaign Contributions BUT Uranga Raises Issue Of "Full Time Council" (Ballot Mesure To Quadruple Council Salaries And Pensions) And Mungo And Zendejas Don't Object

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Council Committee Takes No Immediate Action On Ballot Measure To Increase Allowable Campaign Contributions BUT Uranga Raises Issue Of "Full Time Council" (Ballot Measure To Quadruple Council Salaries And Pensions) And Mungo And Zendejas Don't Object

AUDIO: Hear Uranga advocate, Mungo equivocate

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(Oct. 22, 2020, 9:07 a.m., updated 9:45 p.m.) -- At its Oct. 11 meeting, the City Council's Mayor-chosen "Elections Oversight Committee" (Zendejas, Uranga, Mungo) acknowledged but took no immediate action (voted to "receive and file") a City Attorney office memo requiring a citywide vote of the people to increase LB's election campaign contribution limits (currently set by a 1994 ordinance enacted by a vote of the people.)

After committee chair Zendejas let Committee member Mungo engage in a non-agendized discussion of Council district election campaign texts allegedly defaming or misstating her positions, Committee member Roberto Uranga raised and advocated a second issue requiring a citywide vote of the people: changing the LB City Charter to create what he called a "full time Council" [that doesn't require full time work but would quadruple current Council salaries and pensions currently limited to one quarter of the Mayor's salary.]

Committee members Mungo and Zendejas stopped short of explicit support for Uranga's stance, but neither audibly dissented, and Mungo equivocated, at first saying she likes a part time Council but then pivoting to citing reasons why a full time Council should be a matter for the punlic to decide.

To hear Uranga advocate the agendized campaign contribution increase ballot measure and segue to the not-yet agendized "full time Council" ballot measure, and Mungo offer an equivocating stance on the latter, click here..

[Scroll down for further.]

The net result tacitly signals unspoken support for using a future citywide election to propose a ballot measure creating a "full time Council' (quadrupled Council salaries/pensions) in addition to a measure allowing increased camapign contributions to elect them.

The next regularly scheduled citywide election isn't until 2022 (when incumbents in CDs 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 would next face voters), but if Mayor Garcia (as widely speculated) were to exit for a position in a Biden-Harris administration, THAT would trigger a specially scheduled citywide election to fill a Mayoral vacancy. It would create an opportunity for citywide ballot measures on all sorts of subjects, including an increase in election campaign contribution limits and possibly a "full time Council" (quadrupled Council salaries and pensions.)

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