PARAMOUNT : Council May Add Extra Year to Terms
Members of the Paramount City Council may tack on a year to their four-year terms.
The opportunity exists because the Legislature moved the date of California’s presidential primary from June to March, which will crowd the April date of some municipal elections. State lawmakers added a provision allowing local governments to change their municipal election dates so that residents would not have to go to the polls twice within a few weeks.
Paramount council members are considering an ordinance that would delay their elections by a full year so that the local elections would not be in the same year as the primary.
If the ordinance passes, council members Esther Corona Caldwell and Gerald A. Mulrooney will serve until 1997 instead of 1996. And whoever wins the three seats in this April’s election will serve until 1999 instead of 1998. Mayor Manuel E. Guillen, Vice Mayor Elvira Oropeza and Councilman Henry Harkema currently hold those seats and are seeking reelection.
The council is expected to vote on the new election dates at its meeting Tuesday.
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