HUNTINGTON BEACH : Council’s New Faces Turned to Businesses
The city’s four newly elected council members say they will strive to improve business, raise revenue to pay for services and reach accord on future growth.
“We need more business, more employees and certainly more sales tax revenues,” said Dave Garofalo, 49, who has been involved in the community for more than 20 years.
Reelected Councilman Ralph Bauer said that despite criticism of the current council as anti-business, “my attitude is, the way we’ve done business the last two years is the way it will stay--reasonable, logical, fair-mannered and a very open type of government.” Bauer, 64, is a businessman.
Councilwoman-elect Shirley S. Dettloff, chairwoman of the Planning Commission and a business owner, said she has a strong commitment to the business community and wants to develop a closer relationship with merchants.
Peter Green, 68, a former mayor who was on the council from 1984 to 1992 and whom voters elected to a third term, said, “I think this present council will look at the business community and stimulate growth.”
The new council will be sworn in Dec. 5.
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