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Santa Clarita City Council Members, 1987-Present
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The first five City Council members were elected at the same time voters approved the formation of the city of Santa Clarita in the General Election of Nov. 3, 1987. The top two vote-getters took 4-year, 4-month terms, while the other three took 2-year, 4-month terms. Following the 1987 election, municipal elections have been held on the second Tuesday in April of even-numbered years. Santa Clarita has a "city manager" form of government, meaning the City Council makes decisions but the mayor does not have the administrative duties he or she would have under a "mayoral" form of government. Thus each December, roughly coinciding with the anniversary of the city's Dec. 15, 1987 incorporation, the council selects one of its members to serve as mayor for the coming year. The mayor's role is comparable to a board chairmanship. In the list below, an asterisk (*) indicates that the council member was elected or reelected that year; no asterisk means it was the remaining two years of the four-year term. As noted, the mayoralty runs from December to December; for example, where Howard P. McKeon is shown as "Mayor, 1988," the term actually began in December 1987, with Jan Heidt succeeding him in December 1988, and so on. After the first election in 1987, City Council elections were held separately on the second Tuesday in April of even years until 2016, when the council election was consolidated with the General Election. April elections were administered by the city; beginning in 2016 they were administered by the county. On March 19, 2020, having been put on notice by a California Voting Rights Act attorney, the City Council adopted a resolution of intent to switch from an at-large system to a district-based system for future elections and representation. Henceforth, instead of selecting all five of their council representatives, each voter may select just one, and each resident will have just one designated representative on the council. 1st COUNCIL, 1987-1990 2nd COUNCIL, 1990-1992 3rd COUNCIL, 1992-1994 4th COUNCIL, 1994-1996 5th COUNCIL, 1996-1998 6th COUNCIL, 1998-2000 7th COUNCIL, 2000-2002 8th COUNCIL, 2002-2004 9th COUNCIL, 2004-2006 10th COUNCIL, 2006-2008 11th COUNCIL, 2008-2010 12th COUNCIL, 2010-2012 13th COUNCIL, 2012-2014 14th COUNCIL, April 2014-November 2016 15th COUNCIL, 2016-2018 16th COUNCIL, 2018-2020 |
* Council Members
1st Council-Elect 1987
1st Council's New Year's Resolutions
1st Council 1987-1990
Buck McKeon
1987-1992
Jan Heidt 1987-2000
Jo Anne Darcy
1987-2002
Jo Anne Darcy | Legacy
Carl Boyer
1987-1998
Boyer's Cityhood Book 2005
Carl Boyer | Legacy
Dennis Koontz
1987-1990
Jill Klajic
1990-1994, 1996-2000
George Pederson
1992-1996
Clyde Smyth
1994-1998
5th Council 1996-1998
Frank Ferry
1998-2014
Laurene Weste 1998—
6th Council 1998-2000
Cameron Smyth
2000-2006, 2016—
Bob Kellar 2000—
Marsha McLean 2002—
TimBen Boydston
2006-08, 2012-16
Laurie Ender
2008-2012
Dante Acosta
2014-2016
Bill Miranda
2017—
Switch to District Elections 3/19/2020
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