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Indeed, the stirrings of a city-led sustainability network can be traced in part to City of Irvine, CA, where, in summer 1989, then-Mayor Larry Agran ushered a first-of-its-kind local ordinance restricting the use of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Mayor Agran predicted other cities would follow and they did. By July, a two-day conference in Irvine convened 24 U.S. and Canadian cities to explore how local governments could combat the depletion of the ozone layer. They called themselves the North American Congress of Local Governments for a Stratospheric Protection Accord. City of Irvine’s national and global peers transitioned their scope beyond CFCs to consider all environmental pollution the following year during the UN conference mentioned above.

A digital archive was created at the University of California, Irvine of CID's work, [17] as well as the founding of ICLEI. [18]

Human rights ordinance

As Mayor in 1988, Larry Agran led the Irvine City Council to establish the first human rights ordinance of its kind[ vague ] in Orange County, prohibiting discrimination on basis of "race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, physical handicap," as well as sexual orientation. [19] The city ordinance was patterned on state and federal law, but went further to protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation. The Irvine City Council voted 4-0 to pass the ordinance. [19]

In 1989, a ballot measure (Measure N), led by Christina Shea [20] and her husband, struck "sexual orientation" as a protected class from the human rights ordinance. In June 2020, the initiative was repealed by a unanimous vote of the Irvine City Council. [21]

Municipal action on chlorofluorocarbons

Agran, Rowland and Molina, championed what was described as one of "the most far reaching measures" in banning commercial process and consumer product use of CFCs. [22] The ordinance is recognized as jumpstarting municipal, state, national, and international efforts to craft legislation that banned CFCs. [23]

1992 presidential campaign

In 1992, Agran unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for president. [24] He proposed removing all United States troops from Western Europe and Japan and redirecting 150 billion dollars as a "peace dividend" (1992 value) to local cities and towns for local services such as "public health clinics, libraries, police forces, and transportation", a national health program, and environmental protections. [25]

Despite holding only a local office and being unknown outside California, in a poll on January 22, 1992, he tied with two well-known national politicians: Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa and former California governor Jerry Brown. [26]

According to Carole Florman, organizer of the Global Warming Leadership Forum in Tallahassee in February (in which Agran participated), "the audience was more enthusiastic about Larry Agran than about Bill Clinton". [27] At a debate at Lehman College on 31 March 1992, Agran was arrested after calling out from the audience to be included. [28]

Agran performed poorly in the New Hampshire primary, but did pick up modest support[ vague ] in later primaries as a protest candidate with appeal to those unhappy with the other candidates.[ citation needed ] He received three votes at the 1992 Democratic National Convention.[ citation needed ]

Agran was excluded from every television debate, along with some other minor candidates, such as Eugene McCarthy. [29]

City government, 1998–present

Return to city government in 1998

In 1998, Agran re-entered public service as an Irvine City Councillor.

He was again elected mayor in the 2000 election (in which he was unopposed), [12] and in 2002. He later, unsuccessfully, sought the mayoralty in 2012.

Agran rejoined the city council in 2004 and has, for many years, served as a councilor, being most recently re-elected in 2020. [30] He chaired the city's Great Park board until February 2011. (The board is charged with planning, constructing and operating a new park of nearly 1,500 acres (6.1 km2) at the former Marine Corps Air Base El Toro in Irvine.)

Orange County Great Park

As an Irvine City Councilmember, Agran was the chair of the board of directors of the Orange County Great Park project from 2004 to 2010, establishing an international Great Park Master Design Competition that selected landscape architect Ken Smith of New York to create a master design and plan for the 40-year build-out of the Great Park. [31]

Agran supervised removal and clean-up of decades of toxic contamination and building of many of the Great Park's iconic features, including the Great Park Balloon and Carousel, the Palm Court and Arts Complex, the Farm + Food Lab, the South Lawn Soccer Complex, the huge North Lawn (the largest uninterrupted lawn in Southern California), and restoration and repurposing of historic World War II airplane hangars. Under Agran's leadership, the Great Park also began hosting popular events, including Cirque du Soleil, [32] concerts, movies, air shows, regular farmers markets, and countless other community events, boosting attendance at the Great Park to nearly one million annual visitors. [33] Under Agran's tenure, the City of Irvine and the Orange County Great Park also won a national U.S. Department of Energy competition to be the host venue for two U.S. Solar Decathlons, which were ultimately held at the Great Park in 2013 and 2015. [34] Annual financial audits of the Great Park conducted from 2004 through 2010 consistently found that the project was properly managed and that all spending was properly authorized, with no significant irregularities or unaccounted-for funds. [35] : 8–9 

In 2012, the development of the Great Park became politicized. Political opponents of Agran — including newly-elected Mayor Steven Choi and Councilmembers Christina Shea and Jeff Lalloway — won a 3-2 majority on the City Council, and called for another audit of Great Park expenditures. Agran and the other members of the City Council voted for the new audit, specifying that the cost should not exceed $250,000. [35] : 28  Councilmembers Christina Shea and Jeff Lalloway were appointed by the city council to a newly constituted City Council Subcommittee charged with overseeing the audit. The committee hired an accounting firm to conduct the audit: Hagen, Streiff, Newton & Oshiro (HSNO).

In January 2014, HSNO issued a preliminary public report declaring that $38 million in Great Park funds were "missing." The funds were, in fact, sitting in a secure state-mandated housing set-aside account. [35] : 21–22  [36]

The budget for the Great Park audit increased from the original $250,000 that had been authorized to $1.7 million to conduct additional investigations into the Great Park. [35] : 12–13 

These expenditures drew the attention of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee of the California State Legislature, which ordered California State Auditor Elaine Howle to conduct a careful review of the entire Great Park audit and the work of the Shea Subcommittee. That review culminated in California State Auditor Report 2015-116, titled "Poor Governance of the $1.7 Million Review of the Orange County Great Park Needlessly Compromised the Review's Credibility." [35] The California State Auditor's report states that the HSNO was hired through a flawed and biased selection process that "cast doubt on the impartiality of Irvine's selection of HSNO as the park review consultant and increased the risk that the city did not select the most qualified vendor to meet its needs." [35] : 2  This bidding process all but ensured that HSNO would receive a second, "no-bid" contract. [35] : 28–29  The report is also critical of the Shea Subcommittee's failure to properly oversee the work of the outside firms hired to conduct the audit, noting that the audit itself was driven by political motivations rather than by an objective analysis of the readily-available financial data.

In January 2020, the accounting firm hired by the Shea Subcommittee — Hagen, Streiff, Newton & Oshiro (HSNO) — was ordered to surrender their accountancy license and paid $550,000 in costs and penalties when the California Board of Accountancy said that the firm "failed to comply with professional standards, engaged in numerous acts of negligence, and disseminated false and misleading information" in performing the Great Park audit. [37]

Irvine term limits

In 2014, Irvine voters had approved a rule to its city charter such that councilmembers and the mayors can serve no more than two full 2 year terms for life. [38] Agran argued against the term limits, calling it the "worst written term limits proposal in history" in a statement on the 2014 ballot, saying that it was a bid by then-Mayor Steven Choi to stay in office for eight more years. [39]

Agran is one of the longest serving city council members in Orange County, having served for over three decades on and off the city council since 1978, [40] alongside serving as mayor for five non-consecutive 2 year terms. [41] In December 2022, Agran had resigned with a week left on his term in order to run for another four years on the city council, which prompted his colleague Vice Mayor Tammy Kim to call it a "slippery power grab" and asking Agran if "40 years on the city council [was] not enough". [39]

Orange County Veterans Memorial Park and Cemetery Campaigns

In July 2014, the Irvine City Council unanimously passed Councilmember Larry Agran's motion to transfer 125-acres (50 hectares) of city-owned land called the Amended and Restated Development Agreement (ARDA) site to the state for development of a Veterans Memorial Park and Cemetery. [42]

A concept plan for the development was released in June 2016. Estimated cost of the facility was $78 million. [43] In April 2017, the Irvine City Council, on a split 3-2 vote, introduced a land-swap alternative with developer Five Point, trading the park-side ARDA site with a similarly sized location near Interstate 405. [44] In June 2017, with another split 3-2 vote, Irvine City Council directed the City to enter the land swap contract with developer Five Point to move the cemetery. [45]

After the Irvine City Council entered the land swap agreement on October 10, 2017, Irvine residents started a petition referendum campaign to halt the zoning ordinance change that was requisite for the land swap, submitting 19,140 signatures gathered within 30 days, which put the zoning change on the June 2018 ballot. [46] The referendum to halt the zoning change was successful, as measure "B", which would have allowed the relocation of the cemetery, was defeated by 63% to 37%. [47] [48]

In July 2018, the Irvine City Council moved to study a third site for the veterans' cemetery, dubbed the "golf course site". [49] Irvine residents initiated a petition initiative, led by Ed Pope and Larry Agran, to designate by zoning the ARDA site to be the only site in the Great Park area to be used for cemetery purposes. [50] Proponents of the initiative to build at the original ARDA site submitted a reported 19,758 signatures to put the initiative on the November 2020 ballot. [51] In May 2020, Irvine City Council voted 4-1 to adopt the initiative as ordinance, designating the ARDA site as the only site in the Great Park area for cemetery uses. [52]

Personal life

Agran met Phyllis Friedman at UC Berkeley in 1964. They were married on 12 June 1966, both at age 21. Their son, Kenneth Agran was born in 1970. Agran lives in the same home in University Park purchased in 1976. His son and grandchildren also reside in Irvine. [53]

Electoral history

Municipal

2024 Irvine Mayoral Election

Larry Agran
Larry Agran, 2020.jpg
Mayor of Irvine, California
Incumbent
Assumed office
December 10, 2024
2024 Irvine Mayoral Election
CandidateVotes %
Larry Agran42,65238.76
Tammy Kim 37,92434.46
Ron Scolesdang12,89111.71
Liqing Lee Sun6,0015.45
Felipe Delgado5,3254.84
Akshat Bhatia2,7612.51
Wing Chow2,4962.27
Total votes110,050 100.0

2022 Irvine City Council Election

2022 Irvine City Council Election [54]
CandidateVotes %
Larry Agran31,02323.9
Kathleen Treseder 29,44022.6
Anthony Kuo27,27221.0
John Park24,89119.1
Scott Hansen12,4819.6
Navid Sadigh4,8953.8
Total votes130,002 100

2020 Irvine City Council Election

As councilmember Farrah Khan was elected to the office of mayor mid-term, Agran was elected as the third runner-up.

2020 Irvine City Council Election [54]
CandidateVotes %
Tammy Kim 43,74414.8
Mike Carroll 38,61513.1
Larry Agran38,15612.9
Lauren Johnson-Norris37,93112.8
John Park32,52111.0
Carrie O'Malley27,4409.3
Mark Newgent15,8945.4
Diana Jiang14,8375.0
Laura Bratton10,3053.5
Dylan Green8,8143.0
Christina Dillard8,3212.8
Anshul Garg6,4202.2
Abigail Pole6,4062.2
Hai Yang Liang5,9442.0
Total votes295,348 100

2014 Irvine City Council Election

2014 Irvine City Council Election [54]
CandidateVotes %
Lynn Schott16,81422.9
Jeffrey Lalloway16,74922.8
Melissa Fox16,53922.5
Larry Agran14,40319.6
Evan Chemers8,96612.2
Total votes73,471 100

2012 Irvine Mayoral Election

Although Agran lost this election, he continued to serve on the Irvine City Council through 2014.

2012 Irvine Mayoral Election [54]
CandidateVotes %
Steven Choi 32,50545.7
Larry Agran28,74140.4
Katherine Daigle9,95113.9
Total votes71,197 100

2010 Irvine City Council Election

2010 Irvine City Council Election [54]
CandidateVotes %
Larry Agran22,20623.6
Jeffrey Lalloway20,95922.3
Lynn Schott18,63019.8
Shiva Farivar17,65718.8
Chris Moore8,2598.8
Bijan Mazarji3,3273.5
Yunus Aksoy3,0373.2
Total votes94,075 100

2008 Irvine City Council Election

As councilmember Sukhee Kang was elected to the office of mayor mid-term, Agran was elected as the third runner-up.

2008 Irvine City Council Election [54]
CandidateVotes %
Beth Krom36,92419.5
Steven Choi 28,88615.3
Larry Agran28,15714.9
Margie Wakeham22,66912.0
Todd Gallinger22,42311.9
Patrick Rodgers22,09311.7
Eric Johnson11,0225.8
Bea Foster10,8775.8
Ruby Roung3,6972.0
Paris Merriam2,3541.2
Total votes189,102 100

2004 Irvine City Council Election

As councilmember Beth Krom was elected to the office of mayor mid-term, Sukhee Kang was elected as the third runner-up.

2004 Irvine City Council Election [54]
CandidateVotes %
Larry Agran25,21016.9
Steven Choi 25,05216.8
Sukhee Kang 24,64216.5
Debbie Coven24,26116.2
Mike House22,56115.1
Greg Smith22,32614.9
Mohsen Alinaghian5,3363.6
Total votes149,388 100

2002 Irvine Mayoral Election

2002 Irvine Mayoral Election [54]
CandidateVotes %
Larry Agran19,88653.4
Mike House17,35846.6
Total votes37,244 100

2000 Irvine Mayoral Election

2000 Irvine Mayoral Election [54]
CandidateVotes %
Larry Agran34,905100.0
Total votes100

1998 Irvine City Council Election

1998 Irvine City Council Election [54]
CandidateVotes %
Larry Agran14,43422.4
Greg Smith13,00420.2
Ned Kassouf10,45216.3
Carolyn McInerney10,42216.2
George Michael Gallagher6,65510.3
Don Irvine4,6627.2
Jack Wu2,9024.5
Savvas Roditis1,7762.8
Total votes64,307 100

1990 Irvine Mayoral Election

1990 Irvine City Council Election [54]
CandidateVotes %
Sally Anne Sheridan14,25651.2
Larry Agran13,58448.8
Total votes27,840 100

1988 Irvine Mayoral Election

1988 was the first year with direct elections for the position of mayor. Agran was the first directly elected mayor of Irvine.

1988 Irvine City Council Election [54]
CandidateVotes %
Larry Agran15,65157.0
Barry Hammond8,70731.7
Hal Maloney3,11111.3
Total votes27,469 100

1986 Irvine City Council Election

1986 Irvine City Council Election [54]
CandidateVotes %
Larry Agran11,05627.9
Ed Dornan10,73727.1
Tom Jones5,51313.9
Hal Maloney5,22113.2
Jean Hobart2,8227.1
Mary Aileen Matheis1,5433.9
Gary Steven Bennett6691.7
Scott Wellman6071.5
Anthony Korba5511.4
Betsy Scherr5511.4
Clarence Becwar3510.9
Total votes39,621 100

1982 Irvine City Council Election

1982 Irvine City Council Election [54]
CandidateVotes %
Larry Agran8,69627.5
Barbara Wiener8,29526.2
John Nakaoka5,87518.6
Edward Dornan5,56717.6
Bill Pozzi2,0836.6
Marjorie Keiser1,1423.6
Total votes31,658 100

1978 Irvine City Council Election

1978 Irvine City Council Election [54]
CandidateVotes %
Larry Agran2,74222.7
Arthur Anthony2,42320.0
Ellen Freund1,88515.6
Robert Moore1,85915.4
C. Larry Hoffman1,81815.0
Vivian Hall1,20610.0
David Warren610.5
Jerry Shaw550.5
Carol Effenberger490.4
Total votes12,098 100

Presidential

1992 Democratic National Convention (delegates)

1992 United States presidential election (Democratic primary) [55]

Including write-in candidates.

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