“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Municipal Election to Elect Two City Council Members will be held November 5, 2024

Two of our current Council Members (Dawn Murdock and Jim Roos), will be completing their 4-year terms and have decided not to run again. We thank them for their service. To fill those two positions, there are three candidates (in alphabetical order):

Derek Lazzaro
Desiree Myers
Craig Quinn

Martin Peterson is the sole candidate running for City Treasurer.

To help voters be more informed, PVrrg assembled information on the issues and candidates for your consideration:

Statements from each Candidate describing why they’d like you to consider voting for them (as well as photo, bio and link to their website) — click here
Written Responses from each candidate to specific questions about recent issues that have been controversial — click here
Campaign funding disclosures — click here
Candidate flyers/mailers/ads — click here
Here is a Video of the PVE City Council Candidate Forum held on September 24th at La Venta Inn. The event was co-hosted by Co-hosted by: League of Women Voters of Palos Verdes Peninsula, AAUW Palos Verdes Peninsula, and Palos Verdes Peninsula Chamber of Commerce:

We are committed to informing the residents of Palos Verdes about local issues of interest. We are a non-partisan group of residents wishing to help improve our Community
(click here for the names of our Steering Committee)

For Information on past local elections:

2024 PVHA Board Election

2022 PVE City Council Election

2020 PVE City Council Election

2020 PVHA Board Election

2018 PVE City Council Election

For results of past surveys:

2020 Survey on Palos Verdes Estates Police for the 2020 City Councilmember Election

2020 Survey on Palos Verdes Estates Issues for the 2020 City Councilmember Election

2018 Poll on PVE Election and Measure E

2018 Malaga Cove Homeowners Poll

2017 Poll on PVE Election and Measure D (“Parcel/Fire Tax”)

2017 PVHA Election Feedback Poll

PVrrg Policy on Neutrality during Elections

The primary purpose of PVrrg is to provide PVE residents and members of our PVE City Government with factual information on local issues.

PVrrg’s policy during any election is to remain neutral or impartial. As an organization, PVrrg will not endorse or advocate for any candidates. However, individual members of PVrrg are free to exercise their First Amendment right to support any candidate as individuals.

During elections for City Council or the PVHA Board, PVrrg assembles information by

Obtaining information directly from the candidates for our website
Conducting public candidate forums during election campaigns and posting videos of those forums on our website

To ensure no one has an advantage, all communications between PVrrg and the candidates will be the same. All submissions collected from the candidates will be kept confidential until the publication date. Their unedited and complete submissions (adhering to word count limitations) will be posted on the website at the same time without exception.