Mayor Ariel Pe My Goals as Mayor of Lakewood

I’m Ariel Pe, and I’m honored to be starting a one-year term serving my fellow Lakewood residents as mayor.

City Council Members in Lakewood alternate as mayor, usually each year in the summer. I’m very grateful to have been selected by my council colleagues to serve in this role until next summer.

While serving as mayor, you’ll see me speaking at many city events, chairing City Council meetings and performing other city functions. I was raised in Lakewood, and I loved growing up here. I want to do my part as mayor to make sure that we have the amenities and programs so that today’s youth in Lakewood can also have a rewarding time growing up here, just like I and so many others have over the years. And I want our adults and senior residents to have top-quality amenities and programs as well. Those generations built Lakewood into the great community it is, and they deserve all that we can deliver to enrich their lives too.

I often talk about the importance of mentoring the next generation of leaders in our community. I want to look for opportunities as mayor to add whatever I can to that mentoring effort in Lakewood.

This year, we started the Lakewood Leadership Academy specifically to mentor and train young adults (and people of any age) who are interested in learning

I have two other goals during my year as mayor. One is to work in the most friendly and cooperative way possible with my colleagues on the City Council and our city staff.

L.A. County as a whole, and Lakewood has even been called one of the most broadly diversifying cities in all of California.

But it’s a diversity where we all have something very important in common. And that’s our shared Lakewood community values.

Those are the values of appreciating beautiful parks... recreation for all ages...family-friendly neighborhoods... and doing all that we can to remain one of the safest communities in the region.