CANDIDATES, ISSUES ON TODAY’S BALLOT

Here is a list of the 75 candidates, in the order they will appear, and a brief description of the three ballot measures that voters in the city of Los Angeles will decide today. Descriptions are the candidates’ own.

City Council

District 2

Peter A. Lynch, legislative advocate

Tom Paterson, homeowner association president

Joel Wachs, councilman

District 4

John Ferraro, councilman

District 6

J. Wilson Bowman, educational consultant

Tavis Eugene Smiley, public service

Charles Albert Mattison, minister, dentist

Ruth Basia Galanter, councilwoman

Salvatore Grammatico, realtor, community activist

Mary Lee Gray, supervisors’ senior deputy

Mervin Evans, business development consultant

District 8

Jonathan Leonard, retired firefighter, businessman

Mark Ridley-Thomas, civil rights leader

Billy Mills, attorney

Carolyn Moore, social worker, consultant

Kerman Maddox, community college instructor

Norma Celestine Mena, business consultant

Maybelline Griffin, county children administrator

Cornelius A. Pettus, businessman

Roderick (Rod) Wright, government affairs officer

District 9*

Joe Hubbard Jr., communicator, activist

C. David Henry, community advocate

Theodore (Ted) Bey, businessman, community activist

Lang J. Stanley, college counselor, professor

Mike Schaefer, public interest attorney

Barbara Ratliff, teacher, attorney, businesswoman

Woodrow (Woody) Fleming, labor union executive

Bob Gay, city councilman’s deputy

Brad Pye Jr., assistant chief deputy

Rita D. Walters, school board member

District 10

Nate Holden, councilman

Esther M. Lofton, educator, administrator

District 12

Allen Robert Hecht, businessman, environmental advocate

Hal Bernson, councilman

Leonard Shapiro, publisher, community activist

Julianna Korenstein, member of the Board of Education

Arthur (Larry) Kagele, police detective supervisor

Walter N. Prince, businessman, environmentalist, activist

District 14

John Lucero, corporate president

Richard Alatorre, councilman

Martin GutieRuiz, community organizer

David R. Diaz, environmental planner

Board of Education

District 1

Barbara Boudreaux, elementary school principal

Arnold C. Butler, educator, businessman

Donald F. Jones, school district employee

Marion Sims, educator, clinical psychologist

Charles E. Dickerson III, attorney

Sterling Delone, teacher

Celestine Washington Palmer, educator

Chetera Ingram Watson, educator, parent activist

District 3

Jeff Horton, teacher

Stan Bunyan, retired teacher, principal

Tony Trias, educator, businessman

District 5

Leticia Quezada, member of the Board of Education

Richard E. Ferraro, educator

District 7

Warren T. Furutani, member of the Board of Education

Timothy E. McKinney, carpenter

Board of Trustees, Community Colleges

Office No. 1

Elizabeth K. Stone, airline worker

Wallace (Wally) Knox, member of the Board of Trustees

Office No. 3

Elizabeth Michael, county committeewoman, businesswoman

John Kenneth Evenhuis, community college student

Julia Li Wu, community college trustee

Office No. 5

Peter Ireland, environmental agency executive

Brad R. Hamill, aerospace engineer

John J. Jamgotchian, attorney

Hal J. Styles, investment counselor, educator

Gloria E. Rothenberg, community activist, businesswoman

Paul Cohen Koretz, city councilman

Pat McGuire, educator, business person

William D. Zuke, disability advocate

Kenneth S. (Ken) Washington, retired college administrator

Howard O. Watts, disabled veteran

Office No. 7

Mark Isler, teacher, business owner

Gerald C. (Brodie) Broderson, community crime fighter

David Lopez-Lee, member of the Board of Trustees

Proposition 1: $235-million bond issue would replace the city’s 911 system with one that officials say will meet the city’s present and future needs, through a property tax increase determined by building size. This measure would cost the average household about $1 a month for the next 20 years.

Charter Amendment 2: Would give the City Council the power to approve contracts made by the city’s semiautonomous departments, such as the Harbor and Airport departments. At present, only contracts of five years or longer need council approval. The amendment would eliminate the practice of some departments that make short-term contracts, but extend them over and over again, avoiding council oversights.

Proposition C: $200-million bond measure would provide funds for repairs, remodeling or new buildings at each of the Los Angeles Community College District’s nine campuses. County tax officials estimate it would cost the average homeowner about $2.35 per year over the 30 years it would take to repay the bonds; approval requires at least 66%, or two-thirds, of the ballots cast.

* Special election