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Home My WebLink About04/17/1956 - Adjourned Regular MeetingNE Application for License The City Attorney presented the Application for License of of Harry F. S. Lawrence Harry F. S. Lawrence to make investigations and to act as security to make investigations consultants at 3345 Newport Boulevard, Newport Beach. Said business and act as security_ is to be a branch office of "Harry F. S. Lawrence & Associates, & consultants. International Detective Agency, Inc.!' The City Attorney stated that the applicants had been interviewed and the references investigated. .It was his opinion that the application should be approved. On motion ' of Councilman Wilder, seconded by Councilman Bennett and carried, said license was approved. "3211cati2n for Re- The City Attorney stated that in connection with the action taken subdivision No. 29. by the Council on March 26, 1956, the Planning Commission desired L. J. Smith, referred to have the matter of the Application for Resubdivision No. 299 of back to Planning L. J. Smith, Balboa Boulevard, Balboa, referred back to the Planning Commission for Commission. On motion of Councilman Wilder, seconded by Councilman clarification. Bennett a4d carried, said application was referred back to the Planning Commission for clarification. Permission granted Councilman Ridderhof requested permission to be absent from Councilman Ridderhof the City and State for a period of five weeks, commencing April 18, to be absent from 1956, as he has been ordered to Washington, D. C. On motion of the Cit-v and State Councilman Wilder, seconded by Councilman Bennett and carried, said for five weeks, permission was granted. Pacific Electric The City Attorney stated that a further meeting with repre- meeting April 11 sentatives of the Pacific Electric, Mr. Steiger and Mr. Squires, 1 for further discussion, has been set up for April 11, 1956. Mr. Engelke from floor Mr. Mark Engelke, 6801 Seashore Drive, spoke from the floor re Pacific Electric concerning the Public Utilities hearing regarding the Pacific property. Electric property. Meeting adjourned On motion of Councilman Stoddard, seconded by Councilman until A rzL_1Z.., Ridderhof and carried, the meeting was adjourned until 4000 P.M., 1 6. April 17, 1956, for the purpose of canvassing the votes cast in . the General Municipal Election, to be held on April 109 1956. Mayor ATTEST. City C erk April 17, 1956 Adjourned regular The City Council of the City of Newport Beach met in adjourned session. regular session in the Council Chambers of the City Hall at the hour of 4.00 P.M. Roll call. The roll was called, the following members being present. Councilman Bennett, Wilder, MacKay, Stoddard, Higbie, Ridderhof, and Hill. ' Canvass of returns The Mayor announced that this was the time and place for the and absentee voters canvass of returns and absentee voters ballots for the General ballots. Municipal Election held April 10, 1956. Consolidated Precinct Election Officers who had served on Consolidated Precinct Boards dismissed. Boards 5, 8, IC, 119 12, and 17, were present in the audience to ` except 8 and 10. correct omissions on reports and ambiguous reports on "Result of Votes Cast." The Mayor dismissed all the boards present, except the boards for Consolidated Precincts 8 and 1C, as the Council agreed to accept the intent of the voters on the ambiguous reports. Canvass of votes. The Council canvassed the votes cast in the General Municipal Election and during the canvass, Consolidated Precinct Boards 8 and 10 were authorized to correct their reports. Absentee voters The absentee voters ballots were then canvassed. The Clerk ballots carjyassed announced that there were 46 absent voters ballots issued, and that 46 were returned and accounted for, one of which was ineligible for counting. Results of canvass The results of the canvass of the absentee votes is as follows. of absentee votes. Gerald C. Bennett ........................ 17 Charles E. Hart ........................ 28 Clarence A. Higbie ....................... 15 Hans Broering ............................ 19 ' Iris E. Higbie ........................... 2 E. Ralph Schisler ........................ 3 Leland L. Wilder .............0........... 27 Helene Csenar ............................ 6 A. K. Phelps ............................. 13 YES NO Proposition No. 1 33 10 Proposition No. 2 7 37 1 i u The Clerk presented the following statement of the vote cast in said elections STATEMENT OF THE CLERK GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION, APRIL 1C, 1956 12 MARGERY SCHROUDER9 City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, in Orange County, California, do hereby certify and declare that a general municipal election was duly and regularly held in the City of Newport Beach on April 10, 19567 and that the result of said election so held was as follows: (a) That the whole number of votes cast in said City was 3,988. (b) That the names of the persons voted for, the office for which they were voted, the number of votes given in each voting precinct to each of said persons9together with the whole number of votes which they received in the entire city, were as follows: NUMBER OF VOTES NAME OFFICE RECEIVED GERALD Co BENNETT COUNCILMAN CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 1 6C CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 2 84 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 3 99 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 4 135 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 5 61 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 6 88 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 7 145 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 8 167 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 9 173 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 10 60 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 11 99 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 12 128 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 13 89 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 14 1C8 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 15 70 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 16 70 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 17 180 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 18 36 TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES 1852 ABSENTEE VOTES �1 GRAND TOTAL 1869 CHARLES E. HART COUNCILMAN CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 1 175 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 2 106 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 3 58 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 4 67 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 5 126 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 6 119 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 7 91 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 8 88 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 9 113 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 10 134 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 11 131 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 12 75 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 13 132 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 14 94 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 15 108 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 16 163 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 17 86 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 18 33 TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES 1899 5 +e Statement of vote cast. Statement of the Clerk. CLARENCE A, HIGBIE HANS BROERING IRIS E. HIGBIE ABSENTEE VOTES 28 GRAND TOTAL 1927 COUNCILMAN CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 1 68 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 2 59 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 3 99 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 4 78 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 5 62 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 6 78 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 7 129 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 8 124 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 9 188 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 10 69 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 11 69 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 12 96 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 13 52 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 14 130 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 15 68 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 16 82 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 17 162 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 18 TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES 16415 ABSENTEE VOTES 1 GRAND TOTAL 16-632 3 COUNCILMAN CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 1 106 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 2 73 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 3 30 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 4 125 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 5 52 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 6 83 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 7 60 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 8 150 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 9 56 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 10 62 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 11 75 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 12 74 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 13 81 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 14 33 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 15 49 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 16 60 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 17 69 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 18 12 TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES 1270 ABSENTEE VOTES �19 GRAND TOTAL 12r9 COUNCILMAN CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 1 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 2 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 3 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 4 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 5 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 6 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 7 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 8 0 17 4 3 9 8 �7 iL l 1 il� CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 9 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 10 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 11 ' CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 12 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 13 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 14 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 15 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 16 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 17 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 18 TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES ABSENTEE VOTES GRAND TOTAL E. RALPH SCHISLER COUNCILMAN CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 1 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 2 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 3 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 4 CONSOLIDATED ' PRECINCT 5 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 6 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 7 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 8 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 9 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 10 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 11 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 12 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 13 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 14 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 15 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 16 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 17 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 18 ' TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES ABSENTEE VOTES GRAND TOTAL LELAND L. WILDER COUNCILMAN CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 1 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 2 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 3 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 4 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 5 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 6 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 7 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 8 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 9 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 10 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 11 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 12 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 13 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 14 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 15 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 16 4 4 6 16 9 7 6 Fsi] 1 121 2 123 17 24 15 12 16 15 24 17 12 17 18 21 23 18 10 6 273 276 118 121 112 159 86 142 167 201 226 91 114 160 122 161 91 117 H M131 Charter Amendment Number One. CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 17 215 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 18 _ 0 TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES 2453 ABSENTEE VOTES 2 GRAND TOTAL 2 0 ' HELENE CSENAR COUNCILMAN CONSOLIDATED (WRITE IN) PRECINCT 1 11 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 2 3 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 3 1 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 4 3 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 5 51 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 6 8 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 7 5 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 8 11 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 9 16 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 10 47 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 11 53 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 12 3 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 13 7 CONSOLIDATED ' PRECINCT 14 5 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 15 34 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 16 78 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 17 16 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 18 - TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES 3�j2• ABSENTEE VOTES 6 GRAND TOTAL 359 A. K. PHELPS COUNCILMAN CONSOLIDATED (WRITE IN) PRECINCT 1 52 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 2 14 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 3 6 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 4 10 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 5 90 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 6 12 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 7 17 ' CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 8 17 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 9 20 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 10 77 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 11 76 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 12 7 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 13 11 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 14 8 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 15 69 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 16 108 ~ CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 17 24 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 18 4 TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES ABSENTEE VOTES 1 GRAND TOTAL 63 "SCATTERING" COUNCILMAN TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES 52 ' PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE: Shall Section 1402 of the Charter of the City of Newport Beach be amended by adding the following paragraph? "There shall be reserved forever to the people the public use of a strip of bay front land above mean high tide not less than 85 feet in depth of the city -owned water front property bounded on the west by the southeasterly line of Nineteenth Street and bounded on the east by a line parallel Fy �` 07 thereto lying 349.90 feet northwesterly of the northwesterly line of Fifteenth Street, said frontage to be bay front frontage." YES NO CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 1 1,60 79 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 2 150 36 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 89 66 ' CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 4 142 57 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 5 168 25 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 6 155 51 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 7 177 63 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 8 203 72 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 9 165 117 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 10 168 36 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 11 198 38 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 12 148 60 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 13 158 48 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 14 137 66 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 15 158 24 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 16 203 2 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 17 185 95 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 18 18 TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES 21519 963 ABSENTEE VOTES 10 GRAND TOTAL 27372 973 PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT NUMBER TWOs Charter Amendment Number Two. Shall Section 402 of the Charter of the City of Newport Beach be amended to read.as follows? "Section 402. Compensation. Each . member of the City Council shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of Two Hundred Dollars per month, except the member selected as Mayor, who shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of Three Hundred Dollars per month. ?Absence of a member of the City Council from all regular and special meetings of the Council during any calendar month shall render such member ineligible to receive such sum for such calendar month. In addition, members of the City Council shall receive reimbursement on order of the City Council for council authorized traveling and other expenses when on official duty." YES NO CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 1 61 179 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 2 42 138 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 3 26 128 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 4 60 147 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 5 24 169 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 6 42 159 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 7 46 190 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 8 77 209 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT' 9 77 210 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 10 27 179 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 11 37 196 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 12 1 163 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 13 47 154 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 14 34 169 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 15 23 156 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 16 29 212 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 17 67 204 CONSOLIDATED PRECINCT 18 19 2 TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES 779 300 ABSENTEE VOTES � �____33Z� GRAND TOTAL 7136 30 Dated and signed this 17th day of April, 1956.pp c Ih .✓-9 a^�I J ci Margery Schrolider, City Clerk On motion of Councilman MacKay, seconded by Councilman Stoddard R -4483. Results and carried, Resolution No. 4483, being a resolution declaring the of General results of the General Municipal Election of April 1C, 1956, was Municipal adopted by the following roll call vote, to wits. Election. AYES, COUNCILMEN. Bennett, Wilder, MacKay, Stoddard, Higbie, Riderhof, Hill NOES, COUNCILMEN3 None ABSENT, COUNCILMEN; None On motion of Councilman MacKay, seconded by Councilman Stoddard and carried, it was. RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Newport Beach Resolved to ex- hereby expresses appreciation for the fine service and Rress appreciatic work performed by Gerald C. Bennett during his term of to Gerald C. office as Councilman. Ve ne -H. ' Councilman Bennett left the meeting at this time, and Councilman Hart the this time. Hart joins. joined meeting at Bennett leaves. ` The City Clerk signed and delivered to Leland L. Wilder, Clarence Certificate of A. Higbie, and Charles E. Hart, a Certificate of Election. The Election and Clerk administered the Oath of Office to Councilman Charles E. Hart, Oath of Office. Leland L. Wilder, and Clarence A. Higbie. Mayor Hill On motion of Councilman Stoddard, seconded by Councilman unanimously re- MacKay and carried, Mayor Dora 0. Hill was unanimously re- elected. elected Mayor of the City of Newport Beach by the following roll call vote, to wits AYES, COUNCILMEN. Bart," Wilder, MacKay, Stoddard, Higbie, Ridderhof ' Mayor Hill passed her vote NOES, COUNCILMEN: None ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: None Statement of Mayor Mayor Hill stated, "I am deeply grateful for the Hill. confidence which the Council has placed in me, and I will continue to do all that I have in the past to work for the good of the City." ADDITIONAL BUSINESS R -4484, City in The Clerk read a letter from The Irvine Company, tendering favor of The the City an offer of acreage in the vicinity of 19th Street and Irvine's Company Irvine Avenue aggregating approximately twenty acres for School proposal. and City purposes, on the basis of one -half of its appraised value. On motion of Councilman Stoddard seconded by Councilman Ridderhof and carried, Resolution No. 444, being a resolution putting the City Council of the City of Newport Beach on record as being in favor of accepting the Irvine Company's proposal in principle, as set forth in The Irvine Company's letter dated April 179 1956, relative to the City's proposed purchase of the said Irvine Company property for City and park purposes, providing the .school District enters into a similar agreement with the Irvine Company, was adopted by the following roll call vote, to wits AYES, COUNCILMEN: Hart,. Wilder, MacKay, Stoddard, Higbie, Ridderhof, Hill ' NOES, COUNCILMEN: None ABSENT, COUNCILMENs None Discussion on R -4484. On motion of Councilman Stoddard, seconded by Councilman Wilder and carried, the City Manager was instructed to send a copy of Resolution No. 4484 to The Irvine Company with a covering letter stating the City's willingness to negotiate for the purchase of the acreage offered by The Irvine Company in lieu of the City's taking eminent domain proceedings. A discussion was had and it was agreed to refer the above matter to the Planning Commission. On motion of Councilman Ridderhof, seconded by Councilman Stoddard and carried, it was: Resolved as to RESOLVED that it is the recommendation of the City recommendation of Council that in giving consideration to the subdivision City Council re plans of Austin Sturtevant and Walter Mellott, now requirement of before the Planning Commission, that the Planning Planning Commission require, as a condition for approval of said Commission. plans, the payment to the City of *1 5.CC per lot which will be applied on the purchase price of the property to be used for park purposes at the site in the vicinity of 19th Street and Irvine Avenue. Authority granted City The City Engineer stated that he would like to have authority Engineer to obtain to obtain an appraisal of the property at 38th Street and Lake appraisal re River Avenue, in order that the bridge to Newport Island might be made Section. more accessible by realigning the road. On motion of Councilman ' Stoddard, seconded by Councilman Wilder and carried, authority was granted the City Engineer to obtain an appraisal of the north- easterly 60 feet of Lots 9 and 10, Block 137, of the River Section, by the following roll call vote, to wits AYES, COUNCILMEN- Hart, Wilder, MacKay, Stoddard, Higbie, Ridderhof, Hill NOES, COUNCILMEN: None ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: None AdJournment. On motion of Councilman MacKay, seconded by Councilman Ridderhof and carried, the meeting was adjourned. Gi Ucri�L.e.� �• .i�� -(�C Mayor ATTESTS City Cle k