Ronaldo Fierro
Ronaldo Fierro | |
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| File:Headshot of Ronaldo Fierro.jpg | |
| Member of the Riverside City Council from Ward 3 | |
| Assumed office December 3, 2019 | |
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| Born | October 2, 1984 Riverside, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Sheena Fierro |
| Education | Riverside City College, Pitzer College |
| Website | Government website Campaign website |
Ronaldo Fierro is an American politician serving as a member of Riverside City Council, representing Ward Three in Riverside, California since 2019. Riverside is the 12th largest city in California and the county seat of Riverside County. The city operates under a Council-Manager form of government, according to the City Charter, and as such all powers of the city are vested in the City Council.[1] On City Council, Fierro has been a prominent regional voice in the Inland Empire, a subsection of California often underrepresented in state and national conversations.[2]
Fierro was elected to the Riverside City Council in November 2019 with 52.9% of the vote. Before serving on City Council, Fierro served on the Board of Directors for Path of Life Ministries, a leading homeless relief non-profit organization in the Inland Empire. Fierro currently owns and operates two restaurants in downtown Riverside: The Salted Pig and W. Wolfskill.
Early Life and Education[edit]
Fierro was born and raised in Riverside by Mel and Mary-Ann Fierro. His father worked harvesting in fields up and down California and eventually began a family-owned produce company.[3] After attending Riverside City College and Pitzer College, Fierro followed his father's entrepreneurial footsteps and established two successful restaurants in downtown Riverside, The Salted Pig and W. Wolfskill.[4]
Fierro and his wife Sheena have a daughter and live in the Victoria Woods neighborhood of Riverside, California.
Political career[edit]
In 2019, Fierro ran for Riverside's Ward Three City Council seat. After placing first in a seven-candidate June primary with 34.5% of the vote,[5] Fierro went on to place first in the November run-off election, this time by 52.9%.[6] Fierro was sworn into office on December 3, 2019,[7] shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged as a national and global crisis. In the year 2020 local officials across the US were put into the position of developing public health and economic responses to Covid-related illnesses and deaths amidst a lack of federal leadership under the Trump Administration.
In office Fierro emerged as a leader in the region's response to the pandemic, authoring measures to provide utility[8] and rental relief,[9] public health protections for essential workers,[10] and crafted one of the earliest local emergency grant programs[11] focused on providing capital assistance to businesses left out of federal programs like the Paycheck Protection Program.
Fierro publicly critiqued the decision[12] by the Riverside County Board of Supervisors to rescind county public health orders, including the decision to rescind a face-mask mandate in May 2020.
Fierro took a leadership role in city efforts to reign in a more sustainable future for the Inland Empire, a region long-known as the air pollution capital of the nation.[13] Fierro was the key architect behind a plan to bring a unique zero-emission streetcar system[14] and its company headquarters to Riverside's innovation district.[15]
Fierro has committed to working with the city's four college institutions, including the University of California Riverside; the Greater Riverside Chamber of Commerce; business leaders and the entrepreneurial system to leverage the movement of the California Air Resources Board to Riverside[16] and launch a new clean-and-green economic dynamic fueled by high-paying, skilled clean tech jobs[17] in the inland region.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Municode Library". library.municode.com. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ "2020 Census: Counting the Inland Empire". Public Policy Institute of California. 2018-09-05. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ "Ward 3 | riversideca.gov". www.riversideca.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ "Riverside, CA Restaurant Owner Ronaldo Fierro Sees Benefits of Sourcing Food Locally | Smart Cities Dive". www.smartcitiesdive.com. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ "MAIL BALLOT ELECTION Official Semi-Final Election Results". www.voteinfo.net. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ "ElectionSummaryReportRPT". www.voteinfo.net. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ "Riverside City Council swears in 4 new members". Press Enterprise. 2019-12-04. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ "Riverside gives bill relief to ease coronavirus burden". Press Enterprise. 2020-03-18. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ "Riverside passes eviction moratorium during coronavirus emergency". Press Enterprise. 2020-04-01. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ "Riverside mandates new grocery store, pharmacy protections against coronavirus". Press Enterprise. 2020-04-23. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ "Riverside City Council offers $1.8M in small business loans, rejects rent freeze amid coronavirus crisis". Press Enterprise. 2020-05-06. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ Purper, Benjamin. "Riverside City Councilmember Reacts To County Lifting Coronavirus Restrictions". www.kvcrnews.org. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ Vincent, Ken. "Report: Inland Empire Has The Worst Air Pollution In The Nation... Even Worse Than LA". www.kvcrnews.org. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ "Riverside, Calif., City Council takes first step in bringing zero-emission streetcar concept along with company headquarters". www.masstransitmag.com. Retrieved 2021-03-25. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Could wireless, battery-powered streetcars be coming to Riverside?". Press Enterprise. 2020-10-08. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ "California Air Resources Board breaks ground on world-class lab, headquarters in Riverside | California Air Resources Board". ww2.arb.ca.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ↑ "RELEASE: Putting California on the High Road: A Jobs and Climate Action Plan for 2030". UC Berkeley Labor Center. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
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