{"id":166,"date":"2014-08-12T22:42:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T05:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2014-08-12T22:46:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T05:46:28","slug":"mike-griffiths-gains-appointment-to-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Mike Griffiths Gains Appointment to City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Griffiths\"<\/a>On only the second round of voting, Mike Griffiths received the requisite 4 votes from the sitting Council members to receive the coveted appointment. \u00a0Griffith’s received 3 votes in the first round with Councilmembers Barnett, Ashcraft, and Rizzo voting in his behalf. \u00a0Mayor Furey cast his vote for Ray Uchima, while Councilmember Goodrich opted for Alex See, and Councilmember Weideman selected Milton Herring.<\/p>\n

Prior to voting, the Council heard from most of the candidates themselves as well as many members of the community. \u00a0At least 12 people rose to speak on behalf of Ray Uchima citing his 19 years of service to the community, ability to attract business to Torrance, as well as his ability to resolve challenging view obstruction disputes as a member of the Planning Commission. \u00a0Uchima stated that he planned on running in the past election, but withdrew to better care for his ailing father.<\/p>\n

Several folks also spoke on behalf of Jimmy Gow noting his love for Torrance, the city of his Birth, and his dedicated involvement with community matters. \u00a0A letter from Betsy Butler recommending him was also read by one supporter. \u00a0For his part, Jimmy Gow expressed how the death of his father had motivated him to seek the appointment as you can’t wait to live your dreams.<\/p>\n

One resident received a hearty applause throughout the room when he confessed that he did not vote for Leilani Kimmel-Dagastino in the past election, but felt that the Council should honor the will of the people by selecting her for the position as she was the highest finishing non-elected candidate in the past election.<\/p>\n

Others suggested Sue Herbers as they felt that were an election to be held today for the vacancy that almost certainly she would win based on her many years of service to the City as City Clerk.<\/p>\n

In the end, however, the consensus on the Council was for a man that did not speak publicly on his behalf at the meeting nor had any supporters do so. \u00a0That’s not to say he doesn’t have strong support from the community as many in attendance seemed pleased with the decision and eager to welcome the only non-party affiliated member of the Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On only the second round of voting, Mike Griffiths received the requisite 4 votes from the sitting Council members to receive the coveted appointment. \u00a0Griffith’s received 3 votes in the first round with Councilmembers Barnett, Ashcraft, and Rizzo voting in his behalf. \u00a0Mayor Furey cast his vote for Ray Uchima, while Councilmember Goodrich opted for Alex See, and Councilmember Weideman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WeYo-2G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrancecitycouncil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}