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NOVEMBER 9, 2012 VOLUME 20, NO. 43
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Close vote backs hospital salary cap EL CAMINO OFFICIALS TIGHT-LIPPED ON RESPONSE TO MEASURE M By Nick Veronin
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any upper level administrators at El Camino Hospital may be dusting off their resumes this morning, while the health care organization’s legal team begins working to see how to respond after the passage of the controversial Measure M — which caps pay at the local health care organization at twice that of the California governor. After all was said and done, 24,650 votes (51.91 percent) had been tallied in favor of the Measure, while 22,833 (48.09 percent) had been cast in opposition. “We’re thrilled Measure M passed, because we think that
hospital administrators don’t need to be making a million dollars a year, when the governor of the entire state of California makes nowhere near that much and he runs a much bigger operation,” said Stacey Hendler Ross, communications director for the South Bay Labor Council, an arm of the AFL-CIO. The CEO and many uppermanagement officials working for El Camino Hospital could see their paychecks greatly reduced under Measure M — that is, of course, if the measure is legal. Top El Camino officials have remained somewhat vague about what they would do in this situaSee SALARY CAP, page 17
Zoglin, Miller, Chiu elected to hospital district board INCUMBENT WES ALLES LOSES RE-ELECTION BID By Nick Veronin MICHELLE LE
John Inks trailed in early election night returns, but by morning, the incumbent was top vote-getter in a close race.
City Council candidates in dead heat to the finish By Daniel DeBolt
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hile a winner was called in the presidential election Tuesday night just before 10 p.m., City Council candidates were still on the edge of their seats to see who was going to win a very tight race.
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In the end, Vice Mayor John Inks and Mayor Mike Kasperzak kept their seats and won the highest number of votes. The council will add two new members: planning commissioners John McAlister and Chris Clark. Newcomer Margaret Capriles was just 2 percentage points away
from stealing a seat from the four top candidates, who were in a nearly dead heat all evening. The trend remained the same until midnight: Kasperzak in the lead, followed by McAlister and Clark and finally, incumbent See COUNCIL RACE, page 11
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fter an expensive and hard-fought campaign, John Zoglin, Julia Miller and Dennis Chiu emerged on top in the race for the board of directors of the El Camino Hospital District. It’s the first contested election in the special health care district in 10 years. The challengers, Chiu, Miller and Bill James, ran against current board members Wes Alles and Zoglin. At stake: three of five seats on the hospital’s district board. Alles and Zoglin were fighting to keep their positions, while one seat was open after a former board member, Uwe Kladde, resigned back in May. Leading the pack, Zoglin car-
ried 21,961 votes (24.56 percent), Miller closed with 19,919 votes (22.28 percent) and Chiu held on to 17,427 votes (19.49 percent) The votes came in from Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto and Cupertino — all cities that sit entirely or at least in part within the boundaries of the district. “I’m very excited about being able to stay four more years,” Zoglin said the day after the election. The re-elected incumbent said it was too bad to see Alles defeated. “It’s disappointing to lose Wes. He has shown the ability to be an independent thinker,” Zoglin See HOSPITAL BOARD, page 14