Montgomery takes the gavel
Mayor Richard Montgomery (center) became the fourth person to serve three times as mayor last Tuesday. He held a celebration at Homie and was joined (left to right) by former councilperson David Lesser, current councilperson Suzanne Hadley, MBEF executive director Hilary Mahan, and friends from the PTA, Wysh Weinstein and Nicole Sheply. Photo Richard Montgomery joined rare company on March 3, becoming the fourth person in Manhattan Beach history to serve as mayor three times. He took the gavel from Nancy Hersman, who served as mayor over the last year as part of the City Council’s rotating mayorship. Montgomery quickly moved to make changes, one ceremonial and one not: he announced that military veterans would be honored at the beginning of each council meeting and that he would be seeking to add two sworn police officers to the city’s police force in the upcoming budget process. “My vision is clear and concise,” Montgomery said. “This council gets things done. You elect us to make decisions. We are going to do that. Public safety is our number one priority, and will continue to be our number one priority.” Montgomery also emphasized that the city is no longer considering…
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