MARK LEYES' RECORD:

Mark Leyes was elected to the Garden Grove City Council in 1990 and re-elected three times. Mark is now the senior member of the City Council.

Mark Leyes is an elected member of the Orange County Republican Party Central Committee, recently sworn in to a second term representing the 68th Assembly District. Mark Leyes was honored as the Local Elected Official of the Year for 2001 by the Orange County Republican Party.

Mark Leyes is an associate member of the California Republican Party and is active in the Party’s fundraising as a member of the Orange County Leadership Forum.

Mark Leyes has served as the city’s representative on the Board of the Orange County Sanitation District, the Orange County Regional Airport Authority, the Santa Ana River Flood Protection Agency, and the West Orange County Water Board. In 1986, Mark was elected to the Board of the Municipal Water District of Orange County. In 1996, Mark was appointed by then-Speaker of the Assembly Curt Pringle to the California Council on Criminal Justice.

Mark Leyes’ record of accomplishment since first elected includes:

• The Crime Rate has dropped more than 50% over the last decade. The city has implemented “Community Policing,” a Gang Suppression Unit, and a Juvenile Justice Center.
  
  
• A balanced budget every year without a citywide Utility Tax. Mark Leyes’ leadership kept Garden Grove out of the 1994 Orange County bankruptcy.
  
  
• Created new jobs and tax revenue with millions of dollars in new investment for new high-rise hotels, restaurants, and other businesses.
  
  
• Mark Leyes has fought to protect our youth by leading a crackdown on Cyber Cafes and pushing for a recently implemented updated, more accessible “Megan’s Law” database for Garden Grove.