Voters in the city of Vernon approved a package of governmental reforms Tuesday that establish term limits in a community where some officials have served since the 1970s.
The vote marked the first official support from Vernon’s residents for an ongoing reform effort in the city’s government, which was launched in response to a disincorporation bill in the state Legislature earlier this year. A total of 52 ballots were cast, according to a city spokesman.
“The city is moving in the right direction and this is a part of that picture,” said John Van de Kamp, a former California attorney general who is working as Vernon’s ethics advisor. “The residents really appear to be behind the process.”
Vernon, an industrial city with about 1,800 businesses but only 112 residents, came under criticism this year from state legislators who argued its government was controlled by a small group of individuals, rather than a legitimate voting population.
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