Bruce W. Barrows,
Mayor Pro Tem
Updated March 26, 2012
Mayor Pro Tem Bruce W. Barrows was elected to the City Council in April of 1994 and was re-elected to the City Council in 1999. Mayor Pro Tem Barrows was again elected to the City Council in 2007 and re-elected in 2011. He served as mayor in 1997–1998, 2002–2003 and 2009–2010, and as mayor pro tem in 1996–1997 and 2008–2009. Prior to his election to the City Council in 1994, Barrows was a member of the City's Planning Commission from 1988 to 1994 and served a term as Chair of the commission.
Mayor Pro Tem Barrows serves on the City’s Budget/Finance, Legislative, Performing Arts, and Personnel Committees. He is the Council's delegate to the Orangeline Development Authority (he is the past President and served as President for two-and-a-half years); Gateway Cities Council of Governments (where he previously served as Chairman from 2000–2001 and as a member of the organization’s Executive Board from 1997–2003 and 2009 to present); and the League of California Cities. He is the alternate representative to the City Selection Committee/Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Gateway Cities Council of Governments – 91/605 Corridor Cities Committee, and the second alternate representative for Sanitation Districts 2, 3, 18 & 19/Waste Management.
Mayor Pro Tem Barrows is the President, League of California Cities — Los Angeles Division. He was appointed to the Los Angeles Division’s Revenue and Taxation Committee effective January 2012. In 2010 he served as the Vice President for the organization. In 2009 he served on the League of California Cities Annual Planning Committee. He has also served on the League of California Cities Transportation, Communications & Public Works Policy Committee (January 2008 to December 2009) and the League of California Cities — Los Angeles Division Executive Board as Treasurer from 2008 to 2009 and as Secretary from 2009 to 2010 (Executive Board and Legislative Committee, Los Angeles Division January 2001–March 2003).
Mayor Pro Tem Barrows serves on the Regional Council, Legislative Committee, and Transportation Committee for the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). In addition, he served as the regional representative to SCAG from 1997–2003. There, he served on SCAG’s Transportation Committee, and as Vice Chair (2002–2003) of the High Speed MagLev Task Force. He has also served as a member of the United States Conference of Mayors Transportation and Arts Committee from 2009–2010, 2002–2003 and from 1997–1998. Additionally, Mayor Pro Tem Barrows served as the City's delegate to the Workforce Investment Board's Policy Board from 1997–2003, including two years as Chair. In 2012 he was appointed to the Board of Advisors for the University of Southern California Price Executive Education Program/School of Public Policy.
He and his wife Teresa have resided in Cerritos since 1978. They raised their children in Cerritos, including three sons Josh, Nathan (wife April) and Daniel, and one daughter, Jessica Roberts (husband Glenn), and are blessed with one granddaughter, Savannah and two grandsons, Laird and Jason.
