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MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING <br />OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE <br /> CITY OF SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA <br /> <br />January 19, 1970 <br /> <br />The meeting was called to order at 2:00 P.M. in the Council Chamber of the <br />City Hall Annex, 500 West Sixth Street, with the following Councilmen present: <br />Wade Herrin, Vernon S. Evans, J. Ogden Markel, Jerry M. Patterson, Ray <br />Villa, and Mayor Lorin Griset. Also present were City Manager Carl J. <br />Thornton, City Attorney William L. Mock, Director of Public Works Ronald <br />Wolford, Director of Planning Charles Zimmerman, and Clerk of the Council <br />Florence I. Malone. <br /> <br />MINUTES <br /> <br />the Regular Meeting of January <br /> <br /> On motion of Councilman Herrin, <br /> seconded by Councilman I~vans and <br /> unanimously carried, the Minutes of <br />1970, were approved as submitted. <br /> <br />LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS Janice Boer, 912 North Lowell, voiced <br /> her objections to the ward system for <br /> election of Councilmen and suggested <br />that the ward boundary lines be changed at least once a year; she also suggested <br />that the wards be formed from the center of the City in pie-shaped wedges, <br />putting the Ward Seven voters into Wards Two, Four and Five, creating a new <br />Ward Seven, and going back to four wards, having three of the Councilmen <br />elected from the City at large. <br /> <br />Councilman Villa called for a point of order, stating that Mrs. Boer had spoken <br />longer than the five minute limit. In response to a question by the Mayor, Mrs. <br />Boer replied that she wished to talk for ten more minutes and that there was <br />no time restriction placed on her presentation ai the beginning of the meeting. <br />Mayor Griset stated that Council would limit her presentation to two more <br />minutes. It was moved by Councilman Evans, seconded by Councilman Markel, <br />that Mrs. Boer be allowed to finish her presentation, which motion failed <br />adoption on the following roll call vote: <br /> <br />AYES: <br />NOES: <br />ABSENT: <br /> <br />Evans, Marke] <br />Berrin, Patterson, Villa, Griset <br />None <br /> <br />The Mayor sa. id that Mrs. Boer would be allowed only two more minutes because <br />of the urgency of the business at this meeting. <br /> <br />Mrs. Boer continued her talk, requesting Council to place on the ballot for <br />the June Primary Election the following: removal of subpoena power from all <br />but the ].egisl~tive body and the Personnel Board and removal of all power to <br />administer oaths from all bodies except the above; formation of a Human Relations <br />Commission or Committee (the two alternatives with the powers delineated to <br /> <br />CITY COUNCIL <br /> <br />-16- <br /> <br />January 19, 1970 <br /> <br /> <br />