Alcalde James Butts

Inglewood Mayor James Butts was first elected mayor of Inglewood in 2010 and then re-elected in 2014 with an 84% votar.

Mayor Butts has a combined 39 años en la seguridad pública, gobierno municipal y la educación. Él tiene una licenciatura en Ciencias (Universidad Estatal de California en Los Angeles) y una Maestría en Administración de Empresas (Universidad Politécnica de California en Pomona). Mayor Butts ha servido como gerente general o director general adjunto de grandes y complejas organizaciones municipales del pasado 27 años.

Jueves Inglewood Mayor James Butts and members of the City Council unanimously approved an exclusive negotiating agreement (ENA) between the City of Inglewood and the L.A. Clippers. The ENA will start a process through which both parties will pursue the development of a state-of-the-art NBA basketball arena in the city of Inglewood. The facility would be located on a 20-acre parcel located south of Century Boulevard at Prairie Avenue. The Los Angeles Clippers will pay all the costs to plan, entitle and develop the proposed facility. Upon signing the ENA, the Los Angeles Clippers paid the City of Inglewood $1.5 millones de, which will fund the City’s administrative costs. If additional funding is required, the Clippers will provide the necessary resources. The new arena would be 100 percent privately funded and privately capitalized. No public dollars will be used for this project.