The Pasadena City Council is the governing body of the city of Pasadena, California

Pasadena, California

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Although famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home to many scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology , the Jet...

. It meets regularly on Mondays at 8:00 PM, except on holidays or if decided by a special resolution not to meet.

The Council is composed of seven members elected from single-member districts for four-year terms. While the mayor is elected by voters at-large, the Vice Mayor is elected by the council to a term of one year (though it is customary for him or her to serve multiple terms).

Partisan makeup

Affiliation		Members
	Democrat	5
	Republican	1
	Decline to State Decline To State Decline to State is an affiliation designation on the California voter registration form that allows voters to register to vote without choosing a party affiliation. It is similar to what in other states would be called declaring oneself as an independent...	1
Total		7

Officers

• Mayor: Bill Bogaard
  Bill Bogaard
  William Joseph "Bill" Bogaard is an American Democratic politician, and the current mayor of Pasadena, California, elected in 1999, and re-elected with an overwhelming majority of the vote in 2003...
  
  
• Vice Mayor: Steve Haderlein
• City Manager: Michael Beck

Councilmembers

District	Name	Areas Served
1	Jacque Robinson	Banbury Oaks Brookside Park Devils Gate Lower Arroyo Monk Hill Muir Heights Normandie Heights Prospect Park La Pintoresca
2	Margaret McAustin	Brigden Ranch Bungalow Heaven Casa Grande Catalina Villas East Washington Village Jefferson Park Lamanda Park Lamanda Park, Pasadena, California Lamanda Park is a neighborhood in Pasadena, California. It's bordered roughly by Foothill Boulevard to the north, Del Mar Boulevard to the south, the Eaton Wash to the east, and Allen Avenue to the west, with a panhandle extending south along the western bank of the Eaton Wash.Like Annandale, it...   Lexington Heights Marceline
3	Chris Holden Chris Holden Christopher Holden is an American Democratic politician, a former mayor of Pasadena, California, serving from 1997 to 1999...	Garfield Heights La Pintoresca Lincoln-Villa Normandie Heights Old Pasadena Olive Heights Orange Heights Playhouse District The Oaks Villa Parke
4	Gene Masuda	California Village Casa Grande Chapman Daisy-Villa East Washington Village Eaton Canyon Hastings Ranch Lamanda Park Lamanda Park, Pasadena, California Lamanda Park is a neighborhood in Pasadena, California. It's bordered roughly by Foothill Boulevard to the north, Del Mar Boulevard to the south, the Eaton Wash to the east, and Allen Avenue to the west, with a panhandle extending south along the western bank of the Eaton Wash.Like Annandale, it...   Sierra Madre Villa Victory Park
5	Victor Gordo	Bungalow Heaven Catalina Villas Normandie Heights Olive Heights Playhouse District The Oaks Villa Parke Washington Square
6	Steve Madison	Annandale Arroyo Del Mar Bellefontaine/Governor Markham Civic Center Linda Vista Lower Arroyo Madison Heights Monk Hill Old Pasadena Raymond Hill
7	Terry Tornek	Allendale Lamanda Park Lamanda Park, Pasadena, California Lamanda Park is a neighborhood in Pasadena, California. It's bordered roughly by Foothill Boulevard to the north, Del Mar Boulevard to the south, the Eaton Wash to the east, and Allen Avenue to the west, with a panhandle extending south along the western bank of the Eaton Wash.Like Annandale, it...   Madison Heights Marceline Oak Knoll Playhouse District South Lake

Indiana Colony (1874-1886)

Between 1874 and 1886, the Indiana Colony

Indiana Colony

The Indiana Colony is the first white settlement of the area known today as Pasadena, California. It was incorporated as such on January 31, 1874, by a settlement of Hoosiers seeking fairer weather following the exceptionally cold winter of 1872–73. The settlers met in the home of Dr...

, as Pasadena was then known, was privately owned and had no formal government, though most consider Daniel Berry to be the de facto leader.

Board of Trustees (1886-1901)

Originally classified by the State of California as a "Class-6 City," it was allowed the creation of a five-seat board of trustees, who chose the mayor. The seats themselves were at-large

Year	Seat
	Mayor	Seat 1	Seat 2	Seat 3	Seat 4	Seat 5
1886	H.J. Holmes	H.J. Holmes	R.M. Furlong	Edison Turner	M.M. Parker	E.C. Webster
1887
1888	M.M. Parker	Roscoe Thomas
1889	Amos G. Throop Amos G. Throop Amos Gager Throop was a businessman and politician in Chicago, Illinois during the 1840s and 1850s. Most famously he was known for being a staunch abolitionist prior to the Civil War. In Chicago he lost two campaigns to be that city's mayor in 1852 and 1854. In both elections he was the nominee of...	Amos G. Throop Amos G. Throop Amos Gager Throop was a businessman and politician in Chicago, Illinois during the 1840s and 1850s. Most famously he was known for being a staunch abolitionist prior to the Civil War. In Chicago he lost two campaigns to be that city's mayor in 1852 and 1854. In both elections he was the nominee of...	S. Townsend			J.B. Young
1890			John Allin	Alexander McLean		Elisha Millard
1891	T.P. Lukens	T.P. Lukens	A.K. McQuilling	James Clarke	E.M. Simpson	Thomas Banbury
1892
1893	Oscar F. Weed				Oscar F. Weed	John S. Cox
1894	T.P. Lukens
1895	John S. Cox	Calvin Hartwell Calvin Hartwell Calvin Hartwell was a Republican politician who served as a member of the Pasadena Board of Trustees from 1895-1898, Mayor of Pasadena, California from 1896-1898, Los Angeles County Assessor from 1906-1910, and Los Angeles County Coroner from 1908-1920....	Sherman Washburn	H.M. Hamilton
1896	Calvin Hartwell Calvin Hartwell Calvin Hartwell was a Republican politician who served as a member of the Pasadena Board of Trustees from 1895-1898, Mayor of Pasadena, California from 1896-1898, Los Angeles County Assessor from 1906-1910, and Los Angeles County Coroner from 1908-1920....
1897					George D. Patten	H.G. Reynolds
1898	George D. Patten
1899		Horace Dobbins	Thomas Hoag	Edwin Lockett
1900

City Council (1901-1921)

In 1901, a new City Charter was written, reorganizing the city government into a council comprising a publicly elected Mayor, multiple Councilmembers from separate wards, and an additional Councilmember elected by the city at large.

Year	Seat
	Mayor	At-Large	First Ward	Second Ward	Third Ward	Fourth Ward	Fifth Ward	Sixth Ward
1901	Martin H. Weight	W.A. Heiss	C.C. Reynolds	Matthew Slavin	Fred E. Twombly	William Shibley
1902
1903	William Vedder		W.B. Loughery
1904
1905	William Waterhouse
1906
1907	Thomas Earley	H.C. Hoatling	J.D. Mersereau	H.G. Cattell	T.H. Webster	W.T. Root
1908
1909					J.F. Barnes		W.K. Fogg	William Korstian
1910				H.G. Chaffee
1911	William Thum	C.W. Rhodes	W.T. Davies
1912			P.M. Shutt
1913	R.L. Metcalf
1914

Board of Directors (1921-1997)

Under Mayor Hiram Wadsworth, the City brought back the class-6 system, this time with a seven-seat Board of Trustees and an unelected mayor.

City Council (1997-present)

Under Mayor Chris Holden

Chris Holden

Christopher Holden is an American Democratic politician, a former mayor of Pasadena, California, serving from 1997 to 1999...

's direction, the City Charter was revised to allow for a City Council and an elected mayor. However, in 1999, Holden was defeated in the first city-wide election for mayor in eight decades by former Mayor Bill Bogaard

Bill Bogaard

William Joseph "Bill" Bogaard is an American Democratic politician, and the current mayor of Pasadena, California, elected in 1999, and re-elected with an overwhelming majority of the vote in 2003...

.

Year	District
	Mayor	District 1	District 2	District 3	District 4	District 5	District 6	District 7
1997	Chris Holden Chris Holden Christopher Holden is an American Democratic politician, a former mayor of Pasadena, California, serving from 1997 to 1999...	Joyce Streator	Paul Little	Chris Holden Chris Holden Christopher Holden is an American Democratic politician, a former mayor of Pasadena, California, serving from 1997 to 1999...	Bill Paparian Bill Paparian Bill Paparian is an American politician, a former mayor of Pasadena, California, serving from 1995 to 1997. He was also a member of the Pasadena City Council from 1987 to 1999, and a Green Party candidate for Congress in 2006. He was the first Armenian-American mayor of Pasadena, as well as the...	Bill Crowfoot	Ann-Marie Villicana	Sid Tyler
1998
1999	Bill Bogaard Bill Bogaard William Joseph "Bill" Bogaard is an American Democratic politician, and the current mayor of Pasadena, California, elected in 1999, and re-elected with an overwhelming majority of the vote in 2003...				Steve Haderlein		Steve Madison
2000
2001						Victor Gordo
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007		Jacque Robinson	Margaret McAustin
2008
2009								Terry Tornek
2010
2011					Gene Masuda

External links

• City Council homepage
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