Special election to fill council seat

Hermosa Beach will hold a special election by mail-in ballot to fill the seat vacated by Nanette Barragan.At its meeting last Thursday, the city council voted 4-0 to instruct City Clerk Elaine Doerfling to call a special election to fill the seat until the term expires in November 2017. Ballots in the all-mail election, which the California Elections Code permits for filling vacancies in smaller cities, will be due by March 10 of next year.Doerfling presented the council with three optio