At their monthly meeting on December 1, 2023, the members of the South Coast AQMD Governing Board voted unanimously to re-elect Senator (Ret.) Vanessa Delgado and City of South Pasadena Councilmember Michael A. Cacciotti as Chair and Vice Chair respectively. Their terms will expire in January 2026.

Senator (Ret.) Delgado has served as Chair of the Governing Board since March 2023. She is the first Latina to Chair the Board in the agency’s 48-year history. Delgado was first appointed to South Coast AQMD’s Governing Board in May 2019 as the Senate Rules Committee’s representative.

Councilmember Cacciotti was also elected to serve as Vice Chair beginning in March 2023. He first joined the Governing Board in 2008 as the appointee for the Cities of the Eastern Region for Los Angeles County. He serves on the South Pasadena City Council and was a Deputy Attorney General with the State of California Department of Justice for nearly 20 years.

Additionally, Governing Board Members Carlos Rodriguez, Holly J. Mitchell, and Larry McCallon have been reappointed to the Board.

• Yorba Linda City Councilmember Rodriguez has been reappointed by the Orange County City Selection Committee to a second term as the representative for the cities of Orange County.

• Supervisor Mitchell has been reappointed to a second consecutive year as the representative for the County of Los Angeles.

• Highland Vice Mayor McCallon has been reappointed by the San Bernardino County City Selection Committee as the representative for the cities of San Bernardino County.

South Coast AQMD’s Governing Board has 13 members. Ten are elected officials. Of those, four are county supervisors representing Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, elected to South Coast AQMD’s Board  by their Boards of Supervisors. Six are elected officials representing the cities in the District. The remaining three are appointed by state elected officials: one by the Governor of California, one by the Speaker of the State Assembly, and one by the State Senate Rules Committee. A term for a Governing Board member runs for four years. For more information on each member, please visit our Governing Board members webpage.