Crawly resigns from Cerritos City Council, election to follow?
Posted by: Matt Kauble | 02/11/2008 1:00 PM
After 15 years in public office, Cerritos City Councilman John Crawley last week resigned, citing health reasons that also led him to retire from his full-time teaching position at Rivera Middle School in Pico Rivera.
At the February 4th Special session of the Cerritos City Council a tentative election date was set to coincide with the June 3rd Primary Election.
However tonight February 11th, the Cerritos City Council may reverse themselves and appoint someone from something like 9 candidates to fill out the remainder of the unexpired term John Crawley was elected to originally.
Some of the rumored candidates include Planning Commissioners Carol Chen, Larry Sagert, Cindy Yen Chen, Former Mayor Sherman Kappe, Former Planning Commissioners George Ray and Howard Spitzer, Parks and Rec. Commissioner Alon Barlevey, and ABC School Board Member Mark Pulido.
Both Carol Chen and George Ray currently serve as appointees of John Crawley for at least another 3 months. Carol is his Planning Commissioner, while George Ray is his Fine Arts and Historical Commissioner.
Last night the council voted 3-1 in favor of going to the election on June 3rd. This before the interview process began. Councilmember Bruce Barrows made the motion to end the evening early and stick with going to a special election to be held in conjunction with the June State Primary. From a polling of the councilmembers it was apparent that none of the four could put together the 3 votes needed to appoint who they were willing to seat and when the city attorney explained that two votes could win if any of the other four votes abstained, the decision became politically obvious.