Measure would end Clerk races
City Clerk Elaine Doerfling, center, will retire when her term concludes at the end of this year. The council plans to introduce a ballot measure to make the position appointed, rather than elected. File photo Following the announcement that long-time City Clerk Elaine Doerfling will retire when her term concludes this year, the Hermosa Beach City Council agreed Tuesday night to put a measure on November’s ballot that would make the position appointed, rather than elected, for future terms. Staff recommended introducing a ballot measure to switch the position to appoint due to “increasing complexities within the field of city clerkship,” said Nico De Anda-Scaia, assistant to the City Manager. Both Doerfling and a unanimous council backed putting the measure on the ballot. Doerfling, who got her first job with the city in 1972, ran unopposed in 2015, and has been re-elected each term since 1989. Her husband Hank served on the City Council in the 1970s, and she has been a resident for 53 years — “with no plans to ever leave,” she said. “This was not an easy thing. When I first started thinking about it, I thought, ‘Oh god what am I going to do?’ But I’m getting used to it now,”…
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