Therefore, on behalf of the various Compton stakeholders who have contacted me, please do not violate the Compton Charter. In fact the language of the Compton Charter at Section 607 cannot be any clearer as it expressly states “Unless a higher vote is required by other provisions of this Charter the affirmative votes of at least three members of the City Council shall be required for the enactment of any ordinance or resolution, or for the making or approving of any order for the payment of money.” In other words, the only exception to the rule that three affirmative votes are required is where the Charter requires a higher vote, which is inapplicable here. As was correctly opined by that Compton City Attorney at the April 5th City Council meeting: He stated that pursuant to the Compton Charter three affirmative votes of the Compton City Council are required to approve anything and accordingly no appointment to the vacancy was permissible under the vote as recorded, i.e., two affirmative, one nay and one abstention. Since there was no quorum present of the Compton City Council that any city business was conducted and/or announcements made by anyone other than to declare the meeting cancelled because of the lack of a quorum is illegal under the Brown Act.īut concerning the illegal appointment for the First District. Deidre Duhart who at an illegal Compton council meeting was announced as the replacement to fill the unexpired term for the First District. I have been contacted by numerous residents of the City of Compton to write you on their behalf concerning the matter of the illegal appointment of Ms. Subject: Concerning Illegal Appointment for First District And Demand For Cure – Forwarded Message -– From: Albert Robles To: Emma Sharif Isaac Galvan The council was previously warned by the LA County District Attorney’s office that an omission in the city’s charter doesn’t automatically default to a “yes”, when they got involved in a dispute regarding compensation of the council. Otherwise, deal with it.COMPTON – 2UrbanGirls is in receipt of the following email where residents are voicing their concerns over what they believe to be an irregular appointment to the city council. But, for those who did not vote but could have, if you don’t like the way things are going in Compton today, be sure to vote in 2017. I am dumbfounded as to why most of the citizens of Compton do not care who is making these decisions that affect their lives. Every week your local councilpersons vote on issues that affect your life and quality of life. In my opinion, voting for your local councilpersons is more important than voting for the President. This would eliminate the cost to rent out polling places and pay the people to work the polling places. I would like to suggest that for the 2017 election the City Clerk think about a total VBM election to save money. While elections are necessary, this election was almost a waste of taxpayer money. Only 11% of the registered voters bothered to vote, which is only about 2.5% of the total population of Compton. This election cost the taxpayers of Compton around $70,000 just to elect two councilpersons.
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