City of Paramount
City of Paramount
Gene Daniels has been a member of the Paramount City Council since 1997, and is currently serving his third term as Mayor. Previously, Daniels spent seven years on the Planning Commission.
The retired real estate appraiser was president of the Golden State Mobile Home League for nine years. He is a regional council representative for the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) and serves on the Executive Committee of the Gateway Cities Council of Governments, an organization comprising 27 southeast Los Angeles County municipalities aimed at promoting economic growth and undertaking long-range planning in the region.
Diane J. Martinez, a lifelong resident of Paramount, has been a member of the City Council since 1994. During that time she has been Mayor for three terms, and is currently serving her fourth term as Vice Mayor.
Martinez earned her Bachelor's degree in liberal studies from California State University, Long Beach. She then went on to earn a teaching credential in multiple subjects, a preliminary credential in education administration and a Master's degree in education administration from California State University, Dominguez Hills.
She has been a full-time elementary school teacher since 1985 in the communities of Lynwood, Inglewood, and Pico Rivera, and has served as an acting principal, vice principal, and reading specialist, as well as in other supervisory roles.
She is also a member of the Community Family Guidance Center Auxiliary Board, the Los Cerritos YMCA Auxiliary Board, the California Contract Cities Association Executive Board, the Orange Line Development Authority, the Promise Care Governing Board, the Tri-City Housing Authority, and the City Council/Paramount School District Ad Hoc Committee.
In her spare time Martinez enjoys playing golf. She is a longtime member of Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Paramount.
Tom Hansen was born in Fullerton in 1945 and moved to Paramount in 1949. He attended Paramount public schools, then went to Compton College, and Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, IA. He opened his chiropractic office in 1969 and moved to his current Paramount location in 1972.
Hansen has long been involved in the Paramount community: as a 38-year member of the local Elks Lodge, former president of the Rotary Club and member of the board of directors of the Paramount Chamber of Commerce.
He served on the City's Parks and Recreation Commission in the early 1970s and was named to the Planning Commission in 1996. He was elected to the City Council in 2006. He is also a member of the Central Basin Water Authority and the Southeast Water Coalition Policy Board.
Daryl Hofmeyer, a native of Primghar, Iowa, moved to California after serving with the Marines in the late 1950s. He settled in Paramount, and eventually came to own Romberg Milling and Paramount Cubing, one of the last businesses in town with its roots in the City's former days as a leading dairy center.
He served on the City's Parks and Recreation, Public Works, and Planning commissions, and was elected to the City Council in 2003, serving as Mayor for 2006-07 and overseeing the kickoff of Paramount's 50th anniversary celebration.
Hofmeyer is also a member of the California Joint Powers Insurance Authority Board, the Consolidated Youth Services Network, and the Tri-City Housing Authority.
Peggy Lemons has been a member of the Paramount City Council since 1997, during which time she has served three terms as Mayor.
She previously sat on the City's Public Safety Commission, and was named Public Safety Person of the Year by the California State Legislature. In addition, she has received the Soroptimists' Woman of Distinction Award as well as the Paul Harris Award from the Rotary Club.
She is also a member of the County Sanitation Districts of L.A. County, the Southeast Area Animal Control Authority Board, the L.A. County City Selection Committee and the City/Paramount School District Ad Hoc Committee.
The governing body for the City of Paramount consists of 5 residents, elected at large. Each year, the elected Councilmembers elect one member to serve as mayor, and another member to serve as vice-mayor. Each member of the Council serves a 4-year term of office.
Council Address
16400 Colorado Avenue
Paramount CA 90723
Call (562) 220-2225