Rodio Named to Lancaster Mayor’s Post
Lancaster City Councilman Arnie Rodio, a 64-year-old retired plumbing business owner, will have the largely honorary job of mayor during the coming year, his council colleagues have decided.
Rodio has been chairman of the city’s Redevelopment Agency during the past year. That job will now go to Councilman George Root for the next year. Root is a former Jet Propulsion Lab administrator who had been serving as mayor.
The mayor’s main duty is running the city’s twice-monthly council meetings.
Council members last year adopted a city ordinance requiring that the mayor’s job be rotated annually among the five council members, based on tenure. The city’s prior and more informal process for annually picking a mayor had sometimes led to political squabbling.
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