Rancho Palos Verdes Election 2019: City Council, Measure B

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA — The 2019 Rancho Palos Verdes election is Tuesday, November 5. Residents will vote on three City Council seats and Measure B.

Five candidates are vying for three City Council seats, including one incumbent. Incumbent Ken Dyda has served multiple tenures on the city council. Barbara Ferraro is also a City Council veteran, as well as a former educator at schools in the Palos Verdes Peninsula district.

Three candidates are city planning commissioners: Stephen Perestam, Dave Emenhiser and David Bradley.

Voters will also go to the polls to vote on Measure B, which would require large hotels and other hospitality businesses with 50 or more employees in Rancho Palos Verdes to establish a $15 minimum wage with a $1/hour increase in salary every year until 2022. Measure B is sponsored by Unite Here Local 11.

The measure would also require hotels to have panic buttons, keep detailed employment records and get written permission from employees before exceeding a cap on hours worked in a day, Daily Breeze reported. All five City Council candidates are opposed to the measure.

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