Pasadena City Council

The Pasadena City Council meets once a week in the City Hall.

The Pasadena City Council is the governing body of the city of Pasadena, California. It meets regularly on Mondays at 8:00 PM, except on holidays or if decided by a special resolution not to meet.

The Council is composed of seven members elected from single-member districts for four-year terms. While the mayor is elected by voters at-large, the Vice Mayor is elected by the council to a term of one year (though it is customary for him or her to serve multiple terms).

Composition

Partisan makeup

Affiliation		Members
	Democrat	5
	Republican	1
	Decline to State	1
Total		7

Officers

• Mayor: Terry Tornek
• Vice Mayor: Margaret McAustin
• City Manager: Michael Beck

Councilmembers

District	Name	Areas Served
1	Tyron Hampton	Banbury Oaks Brookside Park Devils Gate Lower Arroyo Monk Hill Muir Heights Normandie Heights Prospect Park La Pintoresca
2	Margaret McAustin	Brigden Ranch Bungalow Heaven Casa Grande Catalina Villas East Washington Village Jefferson Park Lamanda Park Lexington Heights Marceline
3	John J. Kennedy	Garfield Heights La Pintoresca Lincoln-Villa Normandie Heights Old Pasadena Olive Heights Orange Heights Playhouse District The Oaks Villa Parke
4	Gene Masuda	California Village Casa Grande Chapman Daisy-Villa East Washington Village Eaton Canyon Hastings Ranch Lamanda Park Sierra Madre Villa Victory Park
5	Victor Gordo	Bungalow Heaven Catalina Villas Normandie Heights Olive Heights Playhouse District The Oaks Villa Parke Washington Square
6	Steve Madison	Annandale Arroyo Del Mar Bellefontaine/Governor Markham Civic Center Linda Vista Lower Arroyo Madison Heights Monk Hill Old Pasadena Raymond Hill
7	Andy Wilson	Allendale Lamanda Park Madison Heights Marceline Oak Knoll Playhouse District South Lake

Past City Governments

Indiana Colony (1874-1886)

Between 1874 and 1886, the Indiana Colony, as Pasadena was then known, was privately owned and had no formal government, though most consider Daniel Berry to be the de facto leader.

Board of Trustees (1886-1901)

Originally classified by the State of California as a "Class-6 City," it was allowed the creation of a five-seat board of trustees, who chose the mayor. The seats themselves were at-large

Year	Seat
	Mayor	Seat 1	Seat 2	Seat 3	Seat 4	Seat 5
1886	H.J. Holmes	H.J. Holmes	R.M. Furlong	Edison Turner	M.M. Parker	E.C. Webster
1887
1888	M.M. Parker	Roscoe Thomas
1889	Amos G. Throop	Amos G. Throop	S. Townsend			J.B. Young
1890			John Allin	Alexander McLean		Elisha Millard
1891	T.P. Lukens	T.P. Lukens	A.K. McQuilling	James Clarke	E.M. Simpson	Thomas Banbury
1892
1893	Oscar F. Weed				Oscar F. Weed	John S. Cox
1894	T.P. Lukens
1895	John S. Cox	Calvin Hartwell	Sherman Washburn	H.M. Hamilton
1896	Calvin Hartwell
1897					George D. Patten	H.G. Reynolds
1898	George D. Patten
1899		Horace Dobbins	Thomas Hoag	Edwin Lockett
1900

City Council (1901-1921)

In 1901, a new City Charter was written, reorganizing the city government into a council comprising a publicly elected Mayor, multiple Councilmembers from separate wards, and an additional Councilmember elected by the city at large.

Year	Seat
	Mayor	At-Large	First Ward	Second Ward	Third Ward	Fourth Ward	Fifth Ward	Sixth Ward
1901	Martin H. Weight	W.A. Heiss	C.C. Reynolds	Matthew Slavin	Fred E. Twombly	William Shibley
1902
1903	William Vedder		W.B. Loughery
1904
1905	William Waterhouse
1906
1907	Thomas Earley	H.C. Hoatling	J.D. Mersereau	H.G. Cattell	T.H. Webster	W.T. Root
1908
1909					J.F. Barnes		W.K. Fogg	William Korstian
1910				H.G. Chaffee
1911	William Thum	C.W. Rhodes	W.T. Davies
1912			P.M. Shutt
1913	R.L. Metcalf
1914

Board of Directors (1921-1997)

Under Mayor Hiram Wadsworth, the City brought back the class-6 system, this time with a seven-seat Board of Trustees and an unelected mayor.

City Council (1997-present)

Under Mayor Chris Holden's direction, the City Charter was revised to allow for a City Council and an elected mayor. However, in 1999, Holden was defeated in the first city-wide election for mayor in eight decades by former Mayor Bill Bogaard.

Year	District
	Mayor	District 1	District 2	District 3	District 4	District 5	District 6	District 7
1997	Chris Holden	Joyce Streator	Paul Little	Chris Holden	Bill Paparian	Bill Crowfoot	Ann-Marie Villicana	Sid Tyler
1998
1999	Bill Bogaard				Steve Haderlein		Steve Madison
2000
2001						Victor Gordo
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007		Jacque Robinson	Margaret McAustin
2008
2009								Terry Tornek
2010
2011					Gene Masuda
2012
2013				Joel Bryant*
				John J. Kennedy
2014
2015	Terry Tornek**	Tyron Hampton						TBD**

*Chris Holden was elected to the California State Assembly in 2012. Joel Bryant was appointed to serve as interim councilman until the 2013 election. **Terry Tornek defeated Jacque Robinson in the election to succeed Mayor Bogaard. Tornek was sworn in on Monday, May 4, 2015.

External links

• City Council homepage
• City Council at Google Maps