Challenger Morena beats incumbent O’Connor for City Council

11/08/2018 7:33 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Pam O’Connor lost her bid for a seventh term on the City Council last night becoming just the third incumbent in the City’s history to be voted out of office. However, a possible appointment could reinstate her for two years. Voters chose businessman Greg Morena

Plans to develop nightmare project passed at ARB

11/08/2018 7:29 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

A vacant apartment building in Mid-City that has stood boarded up and surrounded by construction fencing for 18 years is finally getting a makeover.

The Architectural Review Board approved plans to construct a two-story, four-unit multi-family building at 3004 Broadway at its meeting Nov. 5, with board member Kevin Daly calling the existing building the city’s last “haunted house.”

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http://surfsantamonica.com/ssm_site/the_lookout/news/News-2018/November-2018/11_08_2018_Saga_of_Abandoned_Santa_Monica_Building_Finally_Comes_to_an_End.html

San Francisco Proposition C homeless tax passes

11/08/2018 7:15 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

The controversial San Francisco homeless tax that pitted tech billionaires Marc Benioff and Jack Dorsey against each other passes

San Francisco's Proposition C, which will tax the city's biggest businesses to raise funds to combat homelessness, passed Tuesday.

SMRR City Council to Continue, but Pam O'Conner Finally Loses her seat.

11/07/2018 2:47 PM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

Local Santa Monica Election Results: Measure TL, SMS, SM all approved.

Greg Morena will join incumbents Sue Himmelrich and Kevin McKeown on the Santa Monica City Council. Greg Morena, a restaurant owner, won election to be the newcomer on the Council. Pam O'Conner, who has been on the City Council since the Reagan administration, was somehow turned out by voters. She has voted for every large development project ever proposed in Santa Monica, and voters evidently finally understood that.

Lori Brown lost her bid to be the only landlord on the Santa Monica Rent Control Board.

Prop. 10: California voters reject Proposition 10

11/07/2018 8:47 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

California voters on Tuesday rejected a controversial ballot measure known as Proposition 10 that would have expanded local government authority to enact rent-control laws on residential property, according to an NBC News projection.

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http://www.smdp.com/california-voters-reject-rent-control-expansion-measure/170610

Prop 10 Defeated

11/07/2018 8:30 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

State Measure 10

EXPANDS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS' AUTHORITY TO ENACT RENT CONTROL ON RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY. INITIATIVE STATUTE. Repeals state law that currently restricts the scope of rent-control policies that cities and other local jurisdictions may impose on residential property. Fiscal Impact: Potential net reduction in state and local revenues of tens of millions of dollars per year in the long term. Depending on actions by local communities, revenue losses could be less or considerably more.

Candidate(s)	Votes	Percent
Yes	893,769	47.16%
No	1,001,443	52.84%

4,728 of 4,728 precincts reporting (100.00%) | Majority of votes cast

Santa Monica Election Results

11/07/2018 8:26 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

See Santa Monica Results at: https://www.smvote.org/

O'Connor Out, Morena In; Term Limits Wins in Landslide

11/07/2018 8:25 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

November 7, 2018 -- Santa Monica City Councilmember Pam O'Connor lost her bid for a record seventh four-year term on Tuesday, while a measure to impose Council term limits won in a surprising landslide.

O'Connor, a pro-growth member of the Council since 1994, finished a distant fourth in the race for two open Council seats with 7,385 votes. She becomes the third incumbent to lose a bid for re-election in the past quarter century.

Los Angeles County Election Results

11/07/2018 8:25 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

And the State and the City at: https://www.lavote.net/electionresults/text/3861

NEWS ANALYSIS -- Development Remains Major Issue in Tuesday's Santa Monica Election

11/07/2018 8:23 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

November 7, 2018 -- Development may not have been a hot-button issue on Tuesday's Santa Monica ballot, but it was a determining factor in the race for three City Council seats and the resounding support for term limits.

Councilmember Sue Himmelrich, the staunchest slow-growth advocate on the Council, easily topped the ballot, while Pam O'Connor, a longtime champion of development, finished a distant fourth.