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The Fullerton City Council has reversed its initial decision on which two districts will be up for election next year and voted instead to allow Councilman Greg Sebourn to run in 2018.
Fullerton officials plan to temporarily stop enforcing a 47-year-old ban on overnight parking along city streets while a more permanent solution to the lack of space is developed.
The City Council will take a second look at its decision to put two new districts up for election next year.
The Fullerton City Council this week voted to abolish the city’s ordinance that restricted where convicted child sex offenders can live as part of a settlement of a lawsuit brought by a man who claims to have been rendered homeless by such laws.
The map, which was approved by the Fullerton City Council last month, violates state and federal voting rights law, according to a motion filed in Superior Court.
Council members last month approved a $186-million budget that requires the city to tap into reserves for $5 million to pay for the hiring of five more police officers and a raise for firefighters.
The Fullerton City Council Tuesday heard input from residents on maps that could end up being the basis for district boundaries as the city prepares for a possible change to a council-districts electoral system.
After facing public outcry, council members backtracked from a proposal to ban clapping at regular council meetings. And they updated meeting rules in hopes of making the public more involved.
The Fullerton City Council this week narrowly approved a 9 percent raise over two years for the city’s firefighters, with accusations of hypocrisy and pandering accompanying the vote.
The design will use five small roundabouts at the intersections of Pomona, Balcom, Berkeley, Lincoln and Annin avenues.