Redondo City council decides Horvath will keep his seat
by Garth Meyer In a two hour and 25-minute meeting Tuesday afternoon, called by Mayor Bill Brand on whether city councilman Christian Horvath maintained legal residence in Redondo after his family moved to Torrance, the verdict appeared to be in hand early on. At the end, the city council voted 5-0 that Horvath had proved he remains a Redondo District 3 resident, and he would not be ordered to vacate his council seat. Horvath has two months remaining on his eight years in office. The rare 3 p.m. session in front of a packed council chambers drew public comment, in and out of turn, and calls for civility, along with probing questions of Horvath and councilmembers’ explanations that the residency question had to be addressed per city charter. Mayor Brand was not in attendance. “I was just overwhelmed by the support of those who came out,” said Horvath Wednesday. “And just super grateful for what, in my opinion, was headed toward a very different outcome had they not been there.” The matter started last week when Rescue Our Waterfront, a political action committee/website founded during the CenterCal era, published voter information indicating Horvath no longer lived in Redondo…
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