3 Malibu Lame Ducks Will Sit On City Issues Thursday

Three lame duck Malibu city council members will vote on some important matters tomorrow.

Rick Mullen was defeated … trounced really … in his re-election bid.

And Skylar Peak and Jefferson Wagner have both served two terms.

The city’s voters approved term  limits nearly two decades ago.

Although Maloibu voters … early during our city’s hisotry … kept voting the same people into office … one candidate realized the only way to oust them wws to limit the number of terms they may serve.

It worked … the voters pproved the popualr idea of term limits.

So … on Thursday … the city council will meet with a majority that is not responsible to the voters.

No one really wanted that … the agenda is a holdover from a eek ago Monday.,

That meeting had to be postponed because Southern California Edison blacked out the city.

On the agenda .. tomorrow night …. 

A virtual public hearing on th efinal draft of the Short-Term Rental Ordinance  … the proposed city riules to tighten up and legalize B and Bs … party houses … vacation rentals.

This is the so-called hosted ordinance … requiring a host to be on the premises …. and the yanking of city permits if noise or parking problems persist.

Also on the agenda … a proposal to bring Malibu into line with surrounding cities … and require face masks under threat of fine.

Rick Mullen … as you recall … voted against the face mask rule twice.

And that may be one reason why voters turned against him in a landslide.