The Huntington Park City Council has appointed a new member to the seat formerly held by Esmeralda Castillo.
Huntington Park is making headlines for alleged public corruption again.
Four people were killed over a 24-hour period this week in a spate of violence across Los Angeles’ Gateway Cities region.
Avila joined the city in 1999 as a member of the city’s Parks and Recreation Commission. He was elected to the City Council in 2017 and served as mayor from 2020 to 2021.
With less than five months to go before the legalization of commercial pot sales, some struggling cities are seeing dollar signs.
As it turns out, much (or perhaps all) of the money Macias raised for a client’s state Assembly campaign came from companies which sought to do business with the city.
The two appointees have thousands of hours of local volunteer work.