Thank you for visiting the City of
Covina
website. We are very proud of our community, which has a charm that is truly an
example of Hometown
America.
I’m extremely honored to serve as a member of the Covina City Council and as the
current Mayor. I will continue to work with my City Council Colleagues and our
professional city staff to ensure that our Covina residents and businesses
continue to be provided with stellar city services. During the coming months,
the Covina City
Council
and I will continue to work very hard implementing a detailed strategic plan to
meet the current and future needs of
Covina.
Our comprehensive Strategic Plan for the next three years is comprised of five
simple but critical goals, which are:
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Provide Efficient, Visible and Responsive Public Safety
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Improve and Promote Customer Service
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Enhance Financial Stability
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Improve and Expand Park & Recreation and Library Services
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Become an Environmentally Sustainable Community
These goals, along with detailed objectives, will serve as a foundation
for
Covina’s
continued success. With the partnership of
Covina
residents, the Covina Chamber of Commerce, our school districts and other
critical stakeholders,
Covina
will continue to thrive.
Asides maintaining focus on our Strategic Plan Goals and Objectives,
one of my other top priorities will be ensuring that adequate resources are
available to continue providing top notch public safety services to
Covina
residents and businesses. After serving for over 32 years, as a sworn law
enforcement professional, I believe the opportunities I’ve had providing law
enforcement services to the people of California over the past several years has
prepared me to help ensure that our stellar Police and Fire Departments have
that tools and resources they need to continue providing public safety services
that are second to none.
In regards to my background, the last two years of my active law
enforcement career consisted of serving as a Governor Schwarzenegger
appointee, first as the Director of the California Youth Authority
and then as the Top Cop (Assistant Secretary) for the law
enforcement branch of California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation (CDCR). Prior to my appointment by the Governor, I
served as the Assistant Chief of the California Department of
Justice where I worked for more than 25 years. Before my employment
with the California Department of Justice, I was a police officer
and SWAT Team member with the Chino Police Department. While working
for the Department of Justice and then Governor Schwarzenegger, I
served in two previous full terms as a Covina City
Council
member, Mayor Pro Tem and Mayor from 1998 to 2005. In January 2006,
I was honored to be selected as
Covina’s
2005 Citizen of the Year.
Currently, I serve as a Past President and Executive Board Member of
the California Narcotic Officers’ Association, as a member of the
Crime Victims United of California Advisory Board, the National
WeTip Executive Board, the Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services
Executive Board, the Stillpoint Resources Advisory Board, and as a
member of the State Senator Bob Margett Foundation Board.
I’m a graduate of
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona with a Degree in
Urban Planning and a graduate of the California Department of
Justice Special Agents Academy and the
FBI
National Academy. My wife Patricia and I have been married for more
than 37 years and we have one son, Walter David, who is an
information technology manager in Orange County.
In closing, my calling in life has always been serving others and I
want to convey to the Citizens of Covina that I’m here to serve you,
to the best of my abilities. I want thank the
Covina residents for providing me the opportunity to do so. If I can
ever be of service to you, please feel free to contact me at
626-858-7212 or email me via the
council mailbox
anytime.
Walt |
