Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas

Mark Ridley-Thomas has represented the nearly 2.3 million people of the Second District on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors since December 2008. Durante su primer año de gobierno, he shepherded through an agreement with the University of California to provide medical services at the new Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital, que abrirá sus puertas a finales de 2012. He also persuaded the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to fund a light rail system from Crenshaw Boulevard to Los Angeles International Airport and move up the opening from 2029 a tan temprana como 2016. Juntos, the hospital and rail projects will generate more than $2 billion in spending and create over 16,000 puestos de trabajo.

Ridley-Thomas is the first African American man ever to serve on the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors. His district includes Carson, Compton, Culver City, Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood y Lynwood, partes o la totalidad de 10 Los Angeles City Council Districts and the unincorporated communities of Alondra Park, Atenas, Del Aire, Domínguez, Medio Compton, El Camino Village, Florencia, Ladera Heights, Lennox, Vista Parque, West Athens, West Carson, West Compton, Willowbrook and Wiseburn.

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