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Special election it is • Council deadlocked 2-2 in fourth meeting over appointment The four members of the Ceres City Council sat in silence for minutes at a time during Thursday night’s special meeting after they kept hitting a deadlock in appointing someone to the empty seat.
A polarized Ceres City Council was unable to resolve its deep division about who should be appointed to an empty District 1 council seat on Thursday evening, triggering a special election for Council District 1 that may cost taxpayers $40,000.
The special meeting was the council’s fourth time discussing an appointment with the same results of Feb. 2, Feb. 8 and Feb. 22. Thursday’s meeting was timed the day before the March 5 automatic trigger for a special election to fill the council seat left vacant when Channce Condit moved to the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 5. State law dictates that a vacancy must be filled within 9
Council hopelessly deadlocked in council seat appointment Special election likely with Ryno & Silveira dead-set for Laurie Smith; Condit & Lopez for anybody but The Ceres City Council was at a stalemate Tuesday evening over an appointment to fill Channce Condit s unexpired term. Deadlocked 2-2, the councilmembers did not budge, making it likely that a special election will be called in March. Left to right are Ceres City Manager Tom Westbrook, Councilwoman Linda Ryno, Mayor Javier Lopez, Councilman Bret Silveira and Vice Mayor Couper Condit.
During an awkward and tense special Tuesday evening Feb. 2 meeting, a divided Ceres City Council could not agree on who among four applicants should fill a vacant council seat.
Ryno seeks clarification on camping policy in residential zones Scenes like this, of homeless persons camping in a Hatch Road commercial parking lot last October, is prompting the city to outlaw camping in public. At least one councilmember is concerned that the crackdown will send homeless onto residential streets.
As the city moves to ban camping in public places like shopping center parking lots, Councilwoman Linda Ryno last week sought clarification on how changes to the Ceres Municipal Code would guarantee homeless persons couldn’t move onto residential streets.
The new law will ban persons to live in cars and RVs in all commercial and industrial zones. Ryno, however, questioned the language of the new ordinance relating to residential zones. She wondered why residential was left out of the unlawful camping section.
Condit leaves council, joins Board of Supervisors Channce Condit, Buck Condit and Vito Chiesa took the oath of office on Monday to become members of the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors. Judge Robert Westbook administered the oath.
Channce Condit officially left the Ceres City Council on Monday when he was sworn in as a new member of the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors.
Condit resigned from his Ceres City Council seat to take the District 2 supervisor’s role while his cousin once-removed Buck Condit now represents District 1, which covers the Oakdale, Riverbank areas.
Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Robert Westbrook conducted the swearing in ceremony while all three supervisors wore masks. Buck Condit congratulated the two others, joking that Hughson’s Vito Chiesa had a “real nail biter” race since he was unopposed to represent District 2.