Altadena : Horner Reelected to Board
Despite an aggressive challenge, Lincoln Avenue Water Co. board of directors member Robert Horner was reelected Monday night by a 2-1 margin.
Write-in candidate Ray Towne, an Altadena attorney backed by a group of shareholders critical of the water company’s rates and its handling of well contamination, received 395 votes to Horner’s 661. Horner was reelected to a five-year term.
The shareholders failed to approve a proposed transfer of voting rights from lenders to the legal owners on mortgaged properties in the water district, which serves 4,200 households in the Altadena area.
Only 1,168 votes were cast in favor of the change, which needed a majority of the company’s 6,179 share votes for approval, according to Bob Hayward, the company’s manager.
Property owners served by the company hold shares and cast votes based on the amount of property they own in the area.
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