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As of 2018, annual salaries were $36,170 for council members and $144,655 for the mayor. [2] Regular council meetings are held in the Long Beach City Hall on Tuesdays at 5pm except on holidays or if decided by special resolution. [3]
The title of mayor was officially created in 1908, following the completion of the new city charter. Until 1988, the mayor was indirectly elected by the city council from amongst themselves. The first mayor to be directly elected was Ernie Kell in 1988.
By law, the commission included the mayor of Los Angeles, a city council member appointed by the mayor, a private citizen appointed by the mayor, all five county supervisors, a member of the city council of Long Beach and two city council members from other municipalities, elected by the Los Angeles branch of the California League of Cities.
He is the second person of color to be mayor of Long Beach, after Republican Eunice Sato, a Japanese American who served from 1980 to 1982. A former member of the Long Beach City Council, he was vice mayor from 2012 to 2014. Garcia was elected to the United States House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections.
Rex Richardson (born August 18, 1983) is an American politician who has served as the mayor of Long Beach, California since 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, Richardson previously served as a member of the Long Beach City Council, representing the 9th District from 2014 until 2022.
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North Long Beach (also referred to as North Town or Northside) is a predominantly working-class area of Long Beach, California.The neighborhood is bounded to the west, north and east by the Long Beach city limits (the Rancho Dominguez unincorporated county area and the cities of Compton, Paramount, Bellflower and Lakewood), and to the south by a Union Pacific railroad track and the Bixby ...