5-Day Registration Extension Ends : Election Roster Broadens in Some City Races

Timothy Lilligren, a certified public accountant, will run unopposed for Manhattan Beach city clerk in the April 12 election.

Incumbent John Lacey did not file for reelection by the deadline last Thursday, and no one else turned in papers for the office during the five-day extension granted by state law when incumbents do not file.

But new candidates did file in three other South Bay cities where incumbents did not seek new terms--and across San Pedro Bay in Avalon, voters will be electing a mayor for the first time.

In El Segundo, three more candidates joined the race for three council seats, two of which are being vacated by incumbents Jack Siadek and Keith Schuldt. They are Jim Clutter, an airline passenger service agent; Scot Dannen, a materials control manager and city planning commissioner, and Nestor Synadinos, a self-employed businessman and co-chairman of the Group United for Residential Rights, which has qualified a slow-growth initiative for the ballot.

Four candidates filed before the deadline last week: Councilman Carl Jacobson, the only incumbent seeking reelection; Thomas A. Jolly, an inventor; businessman Gary Schultz, and electrical contractor J. B. Wise.

Two more candidates have joined the race for two seats on the Palos Verdes Estates City Council, bringing the total to five. Raymond D. Mattingly, a retired hospital administrator, and Robert A. Kirkman, an engineering manager, filed for office this week. Candidacy papers were filed last week by attorney Michael T. Williams, community volunteer Rita Bayer and James R. Nyman, a management services director.

In the race for treasurer in Gardena, candidates Kenneth L. Sutton, a retired federal government official, and Jonathan Kaji, a real estate manager and former bank officer, joined Lorenzo Ybarra, a certified public accountant who filed papers last week. Thirteen-year incumbent George Kobayashi chose not to run.

Avalon residents will choose between two incumbent council members when they go to the polls for the first direct election of a mayor on Santa Catalina Island. In the past, the mayor has been chosen by a majority of the five-member council.

Seeking election to the two-year term as mayor are Councilmen Hugh T. (Bud) Smith and Harlow (Hal) Host. Smith, who served on the council from 1974 to 1982, was reelected in 1984. Host has served since 1986.

Two Years Left on Term

If elected mayor, Host will relinquish his seat on the council, and a special election will be held for the remainder of his four-year council term. Smith’s council term is up this year, so if he loses the mayor’s race he will be off the council.

Two council seats are also being contested in the election. Running for those four-year terms are W. F. (Oley) Olsen III, the manager of the Santa Catalina Island Co. and a former council member; John Phillips, manager of the National Bank of Catalina in Avalon; Paul Puma, a financial consultant, and incumbent Councilman George Scott, owner of a local newspaper distributorship, who has served on the council since 1972.

Councilman Gilbert Soldana is not seeking reelection.

Running for city treasurer are Sherry Edwards, who works for the Santa Catalina Island Co., and Harry Stiritz, a former city treasurer and an accountant with Alan Kent Smith in Avalon. City Treasurer Rachelle Sampson is not running.

City Clerk Shirley Davy, who has served continuously since 1964, is running unopposed.