{"id":419705,"date":"2026-07-31T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/419705\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:12:12","slug":"la-mesa-city-treasurer-resigns-vacancy-to-be-filled-by-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/419705\/","title":{"rendered":"La Mesa City Treasurer resigns, vacancy to be filled by appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Mesa City Treasurer Matt Strabone is resigning Aug. 12, and city leaders will fill the vacancy by appointment.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly four years in the role, Strabone is leaving to take a job as a legal adviser for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(This is) a really big deal and very exciting for La Mesa, although we are losing him,\u201d Cazares said.<\/p>\n<p>A licensed attorney and a known figure in local Democratic politics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2022\/10\/22\/la-mesa-voters-have-2-options-for-treasurer-to-oversee-millions-worth-of-investments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strabone defeated William Exeter<\/a>, a Republican, in 2022 with 54% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Under state law, the vacancy must be filled within 60 days, either by appointment or special election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in favor of an appointment, considering how much a special election costs and considering how close we are to November,\u201d Mayor Mark Arapostathis said.<\/p>\n<p>The La Mesa City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to accept applications to fill the position by appointment.<\/p>\n<p>The selected appointee will hold the position until the upcoming election in November, when a permanent treasurer will be elected by voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have 60 days to do this, so in theory, we\u2019re going to have someone for 40 days,\u201d Cazares said.<\/p>\n<p>Considered a part-time position, treasurers serve four-year terms and are paid $1,100 a month. They are tasked with maintaining the city\u2019s reserve fund of about $65 million.<\/p>\n<p>City leaders are expected to begin interviewing candidates during the Sept. 8 regular city council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a vote on the city council, so this I hope will remain unpoliticized,\u201d Cazares said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"La Mesa City Treasurer Matt Strabone is resigning Aug. 12, and city leaders will fill the vacancy by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,3053,6572,181,23,100,74,84,76,75,1696],"class_list":["post-419705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-east-county","tag-la-mesa","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419705","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=419705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}