CITY COUNCILS SELECT NEW MAYORS
Several city councils in the Southeast area have completed their annual reorganizations, selecting new mayors and mayors pro tem for one-year terms. The selections are approved by vote of a majority of council members.
Although the mayoral title is largely ceremonial, the mayor presides over City Council meetings. The mayor pro tem assumes the duties of mayor when the mayor is absent or out of the city.
Of the 25 cities in Southeast Los Angeles County, only Long Beach and Compton hold citywide mayoral elections. The Whittier City Council chooses its mayor every two years. Lynwood chooses its mayor in January, Downey reorganizes in July, and Montebello selects a new mayor in November.
City Mayor Mayor Pro Tem Artesia Ronald Oliver Mary Alyce Soares Bell Rolf Janssen Jay Price Bell Gardens Robert Cunningham Letha Viles Bellflower William Pendleton Bob Stone Cerritos Paul W. Bowlen Daniel K. Wong Commerce Artemio E. Navarro Robert J. Cornejo Compton Walter R. Tucker III Maxcy D. Filer Cudahy Joseph Fregeau Jack Cluck Hawaiian Gardens Rosalie Sher Esther Flores Huntington Park Jack W. Parks Raul Perez La Habra Heights M. Jay Collins Richard Newbre La Mirada Bob Chotiner David Peters Lakewood Robert G. Wagner Mark Titel Maywood William Hamilton Rosemarie Busciglio Norwalk Mike Mendez Robert J. Arthur Paramount Gerald A. Mulrooney Elvira Amaro Pico Rivera Garth Gardner James Patronite Santa Fe Springs Betty Wilson Amat Barcelon Signal Hill Jessie Blacksmith Richard Ceccia South Gate Gregory W. Slaughter Johnny Ramirez
City Outgoing Mayor Artesia Robert Jamison Bell George Cole Bell Gardens Allen Shelby Bellflower Randy Bomgaars Cerritos Ann B. Joynt Commerce Ruben C. Batres Compton * Cudahy Joseph Graffio Hawaiian Gardens ** Huntington Park Thomas E. Jackson La Habra Heights John Wible La Mirada Lou Piltz Lakewood Wayne Piercy Maywood Henry Santiago Jr. Norwalk Luigi A. Vernola Paramount Manuel A. Guillen Pico Rivera Al Natividad Santa Fe Springs Albert Sharp Signal Hill Louis Dare South Gate Robert Philipp
* Compton voters chose their new mayor, Walter R. Tucker III, at a special election April 16. He succeeds his father, who died of cancer last fall. The mayor’s post had been vacant since then.
** In Hawaiian Gardens, the City Council selected Mayor Rosalie Sher and Mayor Pro Tem Esther Flores for second one-year terms.
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