Gavel Changes Hands at Council Reorganization Meeting Next Monday

• Two New Members to Be Sworn In

BY BILL KOENEKER

The Malibu City Council’s reorganization meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, April 26, at its regular meeting time when Mayor Sharon Barovsky and Councilmember Andy Stern will step down and be replaced by the two newly elected council members that they endorsed, Laura Rosenthal and Lou La Monte.
The meeting gives outgoing members an opportunity to make comments about their tenure and past successes and other officials and dignitaries have a chance to comment. The adjournment of the tenth city council will take place before a brief recess.
Then the eleventh city council convenes and the newly elected council members take the oath of office.
Afterward, comes the largely ceremonial rotation of the posts of mayor and mayor pro tem.
The sequential order calls for Mayor Pro Tem Jefferson Wagner to assume the mayoral position and Councilmember John Sibert to be tapped as the mayor pro tem.
The oath of office will then be administered to the mayor and mayor pro tem.
At the conclusion of the program, time is allotted for the newly elected council members and the incoming mayor and mayor pro tem to make their remarks.