Gustavo Camacho - VOTE CAMACHO RETURN BALLOTS BY NOVEMBER 8

VOTE CAMACHO RETURN BALLOTS BY NOVEMBER 8

to continue making Pico Rivera a place that we are all proud to call home.

Gustavo Camacho

ON NOV. 8th VOTE GUSTAVO CAMACHO

ON CITY COUNCIL, GUSTAVO HAS…

Helped with efforts in public safety that have brought our crime rate down.
Balanced the budget with yearly surpluses, increased revenue, lowered expenditures, all while establishing a healthy 50% reserve.
Led initiatives to improve our quality of life, increase investments in our city, and bring property values up.

Since being elected to the Pico Rivera City Council, Gustavo has used his platform to partner with federal and state representatives to bring funding for new city projects and programs. As we move beyond Covid-19, he will continue to support our veterans and families, and provide well-rounded senior and youth programming.

WE SUPPORT GUSTAVO CAMACHO FOR PICO RIVERA!

“Gustavo Camacho is a leader who knows how to marshal the resources necessary to address local issues important to his constituents. Whether Federal, State or County, he knows how to work with all levels of government to secure the funds and other resources to deal with issues impacting his city. In times like these you can’t ignore persistence, determination, experience and knowledge. Gustavo Camacho has all these qualities, and it serves him well as he advocates for his constituents. I wholeheartedly endorse Gustavo Camacho for the Pico Rivera City Council.”

Congresswoman Linda Sanchez

“It is always good to see a candidate who is not afraid to take on the tough issues and arrive at solutions to improve the lives of local residents. True leadership is the hallmark of a candidate who puts the greater good of residents above his self-interest or the needs of special interests. For these reasons I proudly endorse Gustavo Camacho for his reelection bid for the City Council of Pico Rivera.”

Assemblymember Lisa Calderon

“The people of Pico Rivera need leaders they can count on. As City Councilman, Gustavo Camacho has been an effective leader, serving as a voice of the people. He worked to bring in $17 million from the State of California to renovate city parks and has been my partner in bringing more county resources into Pico Rivera. That’s precisely what we need more of in government and it’s why I am endorsing Gustavo Camacho for reelection to the Pico Rivera City Council.”

Los Angeles County
Supervisor Janice Hahn

“Gustavo Camacho has always been uncompromising in his values, unwavering in his commitment to his constituents and undeterred by demands from special interests. Given his compassion for those who need assistance and passion for improving the quality of life of local residents, I proudly endorse Gustavo Camacho for his reelection to the Pico Rivera City Council.”

Los Angeles County
Supervisor Hilda Solis

“Given his focus on serving the residents of Pico Rivera by improving their quality of life, providing for public safety, supporting open space and parks, taking care of veterans and ensuring enhanced city services, I fully endorse Gustavo Camacho for his reelection to city council.”

Pico Rivera Mayor
Dr. Monica Sanchez

GUSTAVO CAMACHO’S WORK AND PLAN TO BUILD A BETTER PICO RIVERA

PUBLIC SAFETY

As a husband and father, Gustavo understands the importance of public safety in your home and your community. He will continue strengthening the highly regarded city Graffiti Abatement Program and work with our Sheriff department, firefighters, and community groups to build a safer city. Make safety and emergency preparedness a top priority through crime prevention and community programs, provide the right tools to our public safety officials and establish community partnerships to build collaboration with law enforcement.

ENVIRONMENT & OPEN SPACE

Gustavo will continue maintaining a collaborative partnership with Federal, State, and County Officials for funding opportunities to create more open space and build new parks. Due to the loss of federally leased land we need to refocus on rebuilding our parks with new amenities and uses and build new parks through property acquisition or partnerships with our local school district as we did with Pio Pico Park in 2020 and the implementation of the Parks Master Plan in 2013. These projects have been funded, now staff is currently in design of the City Pool, Rio Hondo Park and Alebrije Dog Park to begin construction in 2023.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

During Gustavo’s Mayorship when the pandemic began in 2020, he led the development of a community and economic recovery framework to proactively address major challenges introduced by COVID-19, the economic downturn and impacts from the Whittier Narrows Dam Safety Project. After further modification and ongoing recovery from the pandemic, the framework evolved into what is now being called the Pico Rivera 2035: Community Revitalization Program (PR 2035), a modern-day revitalization designed to stimulate holistic, smart, equitable, and sustained long-term community development and economic growth; this will be a significant opportunity to strengthen the City’s competitive advantage for retaining and attracting businesses, jobs, and private investment into our community.

SUPPORTING OUR VETERANS

Gustavo will continue supporting our Veterans. Gustavo values, honors and celebrates all veterans active or retired for their service to our country. He is proud to support Pico Rivera Veterans, the founders of our city, a place we are all proud to call home. He led the efforts to rebuild our new Veterans Memorial Plaza in 2018, provided Covid-19 relief grants to our VFW and American Legion Posts in 2021 as well as coordinated the new Veterans Resource Center (VRC) administered by our Veterans Service Officer (VSO) and city staff is set to open on October 24, 2022.

ECONOMIC STABILITY / BALANCED BUDGETS

Gustavo will focus on fiscal stability to sustain strong balanced budgets by holding all city departments accountable. When the pandemic forced the city and businesses to close, Gustavo led a strategy named “Respond, Recover and Thrive” to confront the unknown economic impact and support our residents by continuing to provide essential city services. Today, the city has a strong balanced budget ending with an $8 Million surplus, a healthy 50% reserve and continues to be designated as a “low-risk” city indicated by its fiscal health score given by the State Controllers annual audit.

HOMELESSNESS & HOUSING

Reducing homelessness and increasing affordable housing is a top priority for Gustavo. He’s ready to build effective, yet compassionate solutions. He will take on the homelessness crisis by maintaining assigned deputies that directly deal with encampments in our parks and public areas and further develop creative housing solutions and assistance. Gustavo will build on the partnership with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Mental Evaluation Team (LASD MET) who in partnership provide crisis assessment, intervention and targeted case management services for persons with mental illness.

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

Implement a city led program to establish partnerships with our construction and building trades, colleges and El Rancho High School to provide resources and career opportunities, skill development, and personal enrichment training to help residents prepare for career pathways that provide livable wages.

COVID-19 RELIEF

The pandemic changed our lives. With the effects of COVID-19, the health, safety, and well-being of all our residents, workers, and community became Gustavo’s top priority. From becoming the second city in Los Angeles County to provide testing for all residents to donating over 50 thousand boxes full of food, resources and to establishing vaccines sites throughout Pico Rivera. Gustavo eventually contracted the virus too, but after a 4-day hospitalization and at home recovery he continues to assist others who lost much more and prevent others from similar experiences. Gustavo will continue monitoring the virus in our community to keep you informed of all public health programs, services, and resources for all who live, work, and conduct business in Pico Rivera. We are Pico Rivera strong – Let’s become resilient together.

INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS

Rebuilding our roads and parks continues to be one of Gustavo’s priorities, he will continue exploring new opportunities to fund new projects such as the reconstruction of Whittier and Rosemead Boulevard, the city pool, Rio Hondo Park, the Alebrije dog park and our city-wide median beatification projects. He also supported funding new projects to increase traffic safety, signal and intersection improvements as well as the implementation of our Citywide Pavement Management Program to fix our roads. In the next 5 years the city will build over $240 Million in Capitol Improvement Projects (CIP), Gustavo will make sure the work performed meets the highest standards. There are two new projects that are worth highlighting further.

City-Wide Fiber Network
Hi speed internet access is a critical piece of infrastructure which improves educational opportunities for residents, allows options for remote schooling and remote work, supports competitiveness for existing businesses, and promotes economic development. A $50 Million privately funded broadband system is currently being installed to offer lower cost to the consumer and available to every resident and business within the city.
Water Quality Standards
Since 2019, the State Water Resources Control Board has been updating their guidelines for local water agencies to follow in detecting and reporting the presence of PFOS and PFOA in drinking water. The city council moved forward with its remedy to remove perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) chemicals, or “forever chemicals,” from the City’s water supply with the recent installation of special filtration systems at our pumping stations.

For the last few years, Gustavo has proudly served Pico Rivera on the City Council. During his time, he’s helped lower crime rate, develop fiscal responsibility, and led initiatives to clean up the city. As a homeowner with his wife and daughters, he is committed to serving our community.

GUSTAVO CAMACHO

BUILDING A BETTER PICO RIVERA

City-Wide Median Beautification

New Dog Park

New Roads and Bridges

New Rio Hondo Park

Historic Whittier Boulevard

Biography – Gustavo Camacho

Gustavo Camacho is honored to represent the City of Pico Rivera for over 10 years on the City Council. Prior to being elected in 2009, Mr. Camacho served as a planning commissioner for the city.

During his time on council, Mr. Camacho has served as Mayor three times; in 2020 during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2018 during the 60th Anniversary of the City, and in 2013, during the opening of the new parks and state of the art library.

As a member of the City Council, he continues to prioritize the following for the City: Economic Development, Public Safety, Water Quality, Road Improvements, New Parks and Housing; issues that are important and vital for residents and the business community.

Mr. Camacho believes in improving local commerce by assisting small business owners and consistently advocating for resources. He chairs the City’s Economic Recovery Committee and was appointed to the Los Angeles County Workforce Development Board and the Liability Trust Fund Claims Board. Mr. Camacho is also an advocate for our student’s education, believing education is the greatest tool for economic growth, supporting local efforts and programs to assist our students through scholarships and technical services. Mr. Camacho is co-founder of several charitable, educational, and business non-profits and is leading a project with the Building and Construction Trades Councils and community partners to develop a locally administered apprenticeship program.

In 2019, Mr. Camacho was elected to the National Association of Latino Elected Officials Board of Directors (NALEO). NALEO is the nation’s leading, non-partisan organization that facilitates full Latino participation in civic life and promotes policies that advance Latino political engagement.

Mr. Camacho was elected President of the California Contract Cities Association (CCCA), chaired the legislative committee, and served on the Executive Board for 9 years. CCCA represents 80 California cities advocating collectively in the State Capitol for local resources to increase essential city services.

In addition, Mr. Camacho represents the City as a member of the Board of Directors for the South East Area Animal Control Authority and Los Angeles County Sanitation District. He was recently elected to the inaugural board for the Water Replenishment District Education Foundation to help teach students from the community the importance of water and the infrastructure that supports its safety, quality, and reliability. Mr. Camacho began representing a California based company that offers proprietary green technology, bringing Ozone based water purification with scientifically proven general disinfection and sanitization systems.

Mr. Camacho has been recognized for his leadership and integrity. He attended San Diego State University where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration with an emphasis in Urban Planning and where he met his wife, Liz. He has three beautiful daughters, Maya, Carolina, Sofia, and their rescued dog, Chico. His eldest is graduated from U.C Berkeley in 2021.