Because a 2-2 vote on regulations for video games appeared inevitable, Mayor pro tem Dennis Lojeski at the last Arcadia City Council meeting requested that the matter be held over until the next meeting when Mayor Don Pellegrino will be present.
City Council has approved the expenditure of approximately $100,000 to provide lighting and additional bleachers for the Civic Center Athletic Field, to allow for night soccer games.
A civil lawsuit involving Arcadia Mayor Donald Pellegrino has been delayed until July 16 to give the defendant's new attorney time to familiarize himself with the case.
City employees press council for stepped up salary talks. Representatives of the three employee groups told council that negotiations have bogged down.
City Council will hold its annual reorganization meeting. It is expected that Charles Gilb will be elected mayor for the second time and Jack Saelid will be mayor pro tem, an office he has held before.
The city council approved water conservation measures for city owned facilities such as regularly inspecting the city's sprinkler systems to reduce runoff and replacing the dial-type water timers with digital timers. Other measures were set aside for the time being, such as replacing grass-covered medians with cement, and washing down tennis courts less frequently.
Mary Young was installed as the new mayor of Arcadia, while Charles Gilb was named mayor pro-tem. Donald Pellegrino and David Hannah stepped down from the council to be replaced by Roger Chandler and Robert Harbicht.
Arcadia City Council has denied a request for a solicitation permit from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church after hearing lengthy testimony from both proponents and opponents.
The City Council was embarrassed to learn that the reservoirs at Orange Grove and Baldwin, where it was thought that tennis courts could be added for nominal costs due to an earlier reinforcing of the reservoir surfaces, will not support such a project. No tennis courts will be added.
Construction of a 60-foot radio tower planned by the U.S. Forest Service for its facility just below the freeway on Santa Anita Avenue will go ahead according to schedule, despite objections from the Arcadia City Council.
A long-simmering feud between the senior and junior members of the Council came to a boil when Jack Saelid moved for a vote of censure against Jeff Dring, accusing him of attacking Mayor Don Pellegrino in the press and attempting to besmirch his character. The motion was not passed.
Two major items on Arcadia City Council's last agenda have been continued until meeting of December 6. One relates to proposed development by Sam Falzone of the city-owned vacant property at First Avenue and Huntington Drive. The other with-exempt financing for the Santa Anita Inn.