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Cameron Smyth Named Santa Clarita Mayor For 2020

City Councilmember Cameron Smyth was selected to be the next mayor for the City of Santa Clarita for the year of 2020 during a special meeting Tuesday.

WATCH LIVE: The Santa Clarita City Council is set to select the new mayor for the city for the 2020 calendar year.

Posted by KHTS Radio on Tuesday, December 10, 2019

 

Smyth, who served as mayor pro tem for 2019, was selected for mayor after Councilmember Bill Miranda nominated him, with Councilmember Laurene Weste and outgoing mayor Marsha McLean both seconding.

“It’s my honor to nominate someone who epitomizes what it means to be a public servant,” Miranda said. “Cameron Smyth is just the right person at the right time for the city.”

Smyth has previously served as mayor three times over his 20 year career on the Santa Clarita City Council: in 2003, 2005 and 2017.

“I thank everybody for their support, and I look forward to a great 2020 with a lot of exciting things that are going on in this community,” Smyth said.

Miranda was then nominated to serve as the mayor pro tem for 2020.

Before Smyth was selected, McLean was thanked for her year of service by several officials, including Smyth, city manager Ken Striplin, and representatives from State Senator Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita), State Assemblywoman Christy Smith (D-Santa Clarita), State Assemblyman Tom Lackey (R-Palmdale), State Senator Henry Stern (D-Canoga Park), and Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger.

“It has been a real pleasure for me to be your mayor for the past year,” McLean said. “We’re going to continue to be the greatest city in the nation.”

The mayoral position rotates amongst the five city council members each calendar year. While Santa Clarita residents do not directly vote for the mayor, they do vote on who may serve on the Santa Clarita City Council.

Residents will have the opportunity to vote for two spots on the city council in 2020, where Smyth is set to seek re-election, while councilmember Bob Kellar is set to retire, leaving a spot open on the council.

Kellar has been on the city council since 2000, and in that time has served as mayor five separate times. The only other councilmember to have held a seat longer is Laurene Weste, serving since 1998.

Ed. Note: David Melnarik contributed to this article.


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Cameron Smyth Named Santa Clarita Mayor For 2020

6 comments

  1. Id like to welcome our New Republican Mayor . Now that , that’s out of the way . When can we start on moving forward with pushing Libs out of our town .

    • That would be great. They keep moving in and trying to change our once wonderful SC. Don’t hold your breath though. They are still building thousands of homes here.

    • SCV and the nation will never be great as long as either party refuses to see the value of diversity. If you want an ideologically pure place to live, America is a melting pot and was always intended to be such. You can find that ideologically conservative purity in places like Iran. Do you like what that has done there? You who believe in having only your way and seeing no value in people who hold different views need to take a hard look in the mirror. We are great when we are fair-minded and get along with each other, celebrating our differences. Thinking and reasoning together is how solutions to problems are found, not when one group forces itself on everyone else… it tends to feel like ideological rape to others who think differently.

      • Americas a melting pot huh ?? Have you ever tried melting a cheap worthless metal with an extremely high grade metal?? Yeah doesn’t work . Diversity is like charity. Give what you can but it should never be forced upon anyone. I find it weird how those that traveled/escape from their sh*t hole countries come over here and want to make America just like the sh*t hole they left. Sorry it doesn’t work that way. I cant walk into a burger joint and start demanding they make pizza’s from now on. They would tell me to get the hell out .

      • A society is more complex than one ideology. Respect and debate for mutual understanding is a much more valuable tool than being stuck in one way of thinking.

  2. It is a pleasure to finally have a mayor who is still breathing. Let’s hope for the best. Same goes for the newly promoted Sheriff’s Commander. We need someone who gets out once or twice a month at least.

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Michael Brown has lived in Santa Clarita his whole life. Graduating from Saugus High School in 2016, he continued to stay local by attending The Master’s University, where he achieved a Bachelor's Degree in Communication. Michael joined KHTS in January of 2018 as a news intern, and has since gone on to become the News Director for the KHTS Newsroom. Since joining KHTS, Michael has covered many breaking news stories (both on scene and on air), interviewed dozens of prominent state and federal political figures, and interacted with hundreds of residents from Santa Clarita. When he is not working, Michael enjoys spending time with his family, as well as reading any comic book he can get his hands on.