Re-Elect Councilman Nestor Valencia for Bell City Council

· Los Angeles County Sanitation District

· 710- Local Advisory Committee

· California Contract Cities Association

· Independent Cities Association

· League of California Cities

· Southern California Association of Governments (S**G)

His roots and love for the City of Bell, instilled a spirit of volunteerism in the public school site council and committees at all levels, including being elected as the Vice President of the Los Angeles Unified School District Advisory Committee. Other community engagements include:

· Past Board of Director to a local health care clinic providing family medicine.

· Past Treasurer for large local faith-based organization, raising funds to build a new church building.

· Co-Founding member and past director of finances of two national civic organizations.

· Co-Founder of an environmental and health care quality initiative group.

· Founder the Bell Resident Club (BRC), a grassroots community group, which was active before the Bell Scandal and through his executive and organizing skills, enabling the Los Angeles Times to write the initial “Bell Scandal” article, winning the Journalism Pulitzer Award.

· Soccer coach and other sports in the City of Bell’s recreational services program.

Because of this mother’s relentless drive to keep the family together, he, and his brothers and sister, entered the country undocumented to be with their father. He believes in “America the Beautiful”, and demonstrated to the country his compassion for immigrant children when he became the first Mayor in the country to welcome the immigrant children to a proposed shelter in the City of Bell. Also, he, along with county leaders, championed the cause for the homelessness, and lead the council and city to build permanent housing in the City of Bell.

As the Bell activist working for over four years, against the odds, to bring good government and transparency to the City of Bell, through his initiative, and his friends in the legislator, the Bell residents were returned taxes due to AB 900, introduced by now Senate President Pro-Tem Kevin De Leon. With much tenacity and passionate, he led Bell residents to understand what was happening to their city, and the importance of voting and civic engagement. He is proud that others took interest in his community work, and assisted him in the work. Before the scandal, he built a good following of interested parties, and executed strategies that exposed the Bell Scandal, including moonlighting as an amateur journalist under a pen name.

The Bell Resident Club continues to be the premier, independent grass roots civic society group in the City of Bell. As a co-leader to the BRC, he initiated and founded the annual and now academically prestigious “Master Teacher of the Year Award” for 15 schools serving the City of Bell students.

He is raising two beautiful and intelligent daughters who are attending local public schools. In his spare time, he plays on a competitive ice hockey team, although his real passion is surfing waves!