In a unanimous vote, the Los Angeles City Council Tuesday confirmed the appointments of Crystal Lee and Joone Kim-Lopez to lead the city\u2019s bureaus of engineering and sanitation, respectively.<\/p>\n
Bass nominated Lee to serve as the city\u2019s first female city engineer. She is expected to implement the mayor\u2019s capital infrastructure program and the completion of a major expansion of the downtown Convention Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am deeply honored to accept the mayor\u2019s appointment as City Engineer,\u201d Lee said in a statement. \u201cI look forward to strengthening partnerships across the city, applying strategic leadership to advance our priorities, and empowering and elevating the exceptional teams driving this work,\u201d Lee added.<\/p>\n
Lee has worked for the city for more than 17 years. She served as deputy executive director of the Airport Development Group at Los Angeles World Airports, leading more than 300 city and consultant professionals to drive long-term planning for infrastructure, revenue generation and climate resiliency at Los Angeles\u2019 airports.<\/p>\n
She also holds a professional engineer license and master of science in civil engineering, with an environmental emphasis, from Loyola Marymount University.<\/p>\n
Lee will replace interim City Engineer Alfred Mata, who has served the city for more than 30 years. Mata led key projects on climate resiliency, among other things.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thank him for stepping in to lead the Bureau of Engineering during this important transition period,\u201d Bass said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Bass nominated Kim-Lopez to serve as the executive director and general manager of LA Sanitation. She is expected to oversee efforts to clean streets and ensure sustainability for sidewalks, street lights and other infrastructure.<\/p>\n
\u201cLA Sanitation & Environment is charged with the important work of keeping our communities safe, clean and resilient by cleaning our streets, ensuring integrated planning for the city\u2019s critical infrastructure, and protecting our environment,\u201d Kim-Lopez said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to advancing partnerships and innovation to get the job done and dedicating myself, alongside the members of our bureau, to the highest level of service for all Angelenos,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Kim-Lopez was raised in Los Angeles after emigrating from South Korea.<\/p>\n
With more than 30 years of experience, Kim-Lopez currently serves as the general manager and CEO of the Moulton Niguel Water District, overseeing the delivery of water, wastewater and recycled water services to six cities in South Orange County.<\/p>\n
She holds a master\u2019s degree in public administration from Cal State University Northridge and is fluent in Korean and Spanish.<\/p>\n
Kim-Lopez will replace Interim Executive Director and General Manager Traci Minamide, who has served the city for nearly 40 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a unanimous vote, the Los Angeles City Council Tuesday confirmed the appointments of Crystal Lee and Joone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1409,27235,2323,62963,1613,48,52,51,47,50,49,2747,33136],"class_list":["post-381194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-city","tag-confirms","tag-council","tag-engineer","tag-general","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-manager","tag-sanitation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}