LOCAL ELECTIONS : Many Issues, Offices Up for Vote Tuesday : Balloting: The race for a vacant Board of Supervisors seat has drawn 10 rivals. L.A. voters will decide an ethics reform package for officeholders.

Los Angeles County voters on Tuesday will select two supervisors, an assessor and a sheriff, while deciding five contested judgeships and local issues ranging from cityhood for Malibu to new ethics rules for Los Angeles municipal officials.

One of the hottest races has unfolded in the eastern part of the county, where Supervisor Pete Schabarum’s decision to retire created a rare opportunity to put a new face--possibly the first Latino--on the board.

Ten candidates are running for the 1st District seat. They include Sarah Flores, an aide to Schabarum; Greg O’Brien, a Superior Court judge backed by Schabarum, and Jim Lloyd, a former congressman.

Others are Bob Bartlett, mayor of Monrovia; Nell Soto, a Pomona councilwoman; Gary V. Miller, president of the Mt. San Antonio College board; Joseph Chavez, a data processing supervisor; W. Charles Moore, a business consultant; Louis Chitty III, a schoolteacher, and Jim Mihalka, a paramedic.

If no one receives a majority of the vote, the top two finishers will face off in November.

But whether the 1st District results will count remains clouded by a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department and civil rights groups, who allege that the district lines discriminate against Latinos. The plaintiffs have asked that the results be set aside and a new election be scheduled after a redistricting. A judge is expected to rule soon on the suit.

Some prominent Latinos, including Los Angeles City Council members Richard Alatorre and Gloria Molina and Rep. Esteban E. Torres (D-La Puente), have stayed out of the supervisorial race. They said that even if a Latino wins, it won’t resolve the issues that prompted the voting-rights case. Molina said the suit alleges that Latinos are denied an opportunity to elect a candidate of their choice to the board.

“We still want a district in which we can maximize the opportunity to elect one of our own,” Molina said.

Still, Flores and Soto, wife of former Assemblyman Phil Soto, have garnered plenty of endorsements from other Latino groups and politicians. About a fourth of the district’s 662,000 voters are Latino, said Ron Smith, a political consultant to Flores.

The district is 50% Democrat and 41% Republican.

All of the leading candidates have pledged to put before voters a proposal to expand the Board of Supervisors from five to seven members. Expansion of the board is opposed by a majority of the current members.

In the county’s 3rd District, which includes East Los Angeles, Hollywood, West Los Angeles and part of the San Fernando Valley, 16-year Supervisor Ed Edelman is expected to handily defeat his lone opponent, schoolteacher Gonzalo Molina.

In the low-profile assessor’s race, one-term incumbent John J. Lynch faces six challengers, including four employees of the assessor’s office: John Carl Brogdon; Sid Delgado; Kenneth P. Hahn (no relation to Supervisor Kenneth F. Hahn) and Lynch’s former secretary, Monica Anderson.

The other contenders are Jay Curtis, president of the Los Angeles Taxpayers Assn., and Joe Gardner, a retired county administrator.

Sheriff Sherman Block is seeking reelection at a time when his department has been stung by allegations that narcotics investigators stole money seized in drug raids. Twenty-six deputies have been suspended, and 10 of these have been indicted.

Block, seeking a third four-year term, is opposed by Roland C. Biscailuz, a detective in the department’s Lennox station and cousin of the late Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz. Also running is UCLA custodian Joseph G. Senteno.

In the city of Los Angeles, voters will decide on a proposal that would limit the outside income city officials can receive while giving council members and other top officials a pay raise. The so-called ethics reform package would increase the annual salaries of council members from $61,522 to $86,157 and the mayor from $102,537 to $112,004. The measure would establish public financing for city campaigns.

Los Angeles voters also will decide whether to increase the average property tax bill by $28.50 a year to raise $376 million to bring city structures up to earthquake safety standards. As with all proposed tax increases on the ballot, two-thirds approval is required.

In Malibu, voters at long last will decide if they want to become the county’s 87th city. The vote caps a long and bitter fight between the 20,000-resident community and the Board of Supervisors, which sought to get in place before incorporation a sewer system that opponents said would lead to increased development. The supervisors maintain that the sewers are needed to prevent a recurrence of the 1983 mudslide that collapsed houses on the Big Rock Mesa and cost the county $35 million in lawsuit settlements.

The county’s longest ballot--12 pages--is in Malibu, where 30 candidates are running for five seats on a city council that will be established only if voters approve cityhood.

A wide range of local issues--including tax increases to raise money for police or schools--face voters in Beverly Hills, Hawaiian Gardens, Hawthorne, Long Beach, Pasadena, Pomona, Redondo Beach and South Gate.

Pomona voters will decide whether to elect council members by district instead of citywide.

Redondo Beach voters will be asked if they support rebuilding the Redondo Beach Pier. The pier was nearly destroyed in 1988 in a series of storms and a massive fire. Opponents of restoration say the pier was an eyesore that drew crime to the community.

In Pasadena, voters will decide whether to grant the first pay raise in 22 years for members of the city’s part-time Board of Directors. Proposition L calls for a monthly compensation of $935. Board members currently receive $50 for each weekly meeting.

LOCAL ELECTIONS: THE LINEUP

Candidates and issues in Tuesday’s election in Los Angeles County and selected county communities:

LOS ANGELES COUNTY

* 1st Supervisorial District Bob Bartlett Joseph Chavez Louis Chitty III Sarah Flores Jim Lloyd Gary V. Miller Jim Mihalka W. Charles Moore Greg O’Brien Nell Soto

* 3rd Supervisorial District Edmund D. Edelman, incumbent Gonzalo Molina

* Sheriff Roland C. Biscailuz Sherman Block, incumbent Joseph G. Senteno

* Assessor Monica Anderson John Carl Brogdon Jay Curtis Sid Delgado Joe Gardner Kenneth P. Hahn John J. Lynch, incumbent

* Superior Court Judge Office No. 1 John H. Leahy, incumbent

* Superior Court Judge Office No. 8 Lourdes G. Baird, incumbent Mitchel J. Ezer

LOS ANGELES CITY * Proposition A: Asks San Fernando Valley residents what rail transit system they favor, if any. It is advisory. * Proposition G: Increases average property tax bill by $28.50 a year to raise $376 million to bring city structures up to earthquake safety standards. * Charter Amendment H: Sets ethical rules for city officials, including prohibiting outside work. Provides pay raises for elected city officials. Establishes public financing of campaigns. * Charter Amendment I: Spreads cost-of-living adjustments to pensions of surviving dependents of police and firefighters killed in the line of duty. * Charter Amendment J: Provides technical adjustments to police and fire pension programs to bring them into conformity with new federal rules.

LONG BEACH * Proposition E: Raises average tax bill by $44 a year to pay for 75 more police. * Proposition F: Doubles annual salaries of City Council members from $17,739 to $35,478 and strengthens the mayor’s powers.

BEVERLY HILLS * Proposition B: Assesses properties between $250 and $750 annually, depending on size and use, to raise about $4.5 million for schools.

MALIBU * Proposition Y: Establishes Malibu as the county’s 87th city. The vote caps a long and bitter fight between residents of the coastal community and the Board of Supervisors, which sought to get a sewer system in place before incorporation. Opponents said the sewer system would pave the way for increased development. Residents also will decide among 30 candidates running for five seats on the City Council, which will be established only if cityhood is approved.

HAWTHORNE * Proposition D: Raises property taxes an average of $55 a year to hire 35 more police.

PASADENA * Proposition L: Calls for a new monthly compensation of $935 for members of the city’s part-time Board of Directors. Board members currently receive $50 for each weekly meeting.

POMONA * Proposition M: Establishes City Council elections by district instead of citywide. * Proposition N: Enlarges the council from five to seven members. * Proposition Q: Recalls Councilman C. L. (Clay) Bryant.

REDONDO BEACH * Proposition R: Asks voters if they support rebuilding the Redondo Beach Pier.