Employment: Co-owner; professional auctioneer, Tulare Sales Yard, Incorporated

Public Service:
First elected to Tulare City Council in November 1998, and reelected in November 2002. Served as Vice Mayor from December 2000 to December 2002, and Mayor from December 2002 to December2004.

Community and Other Service/Recognitions Include:
Third generation Tularean, who has won several national auctioneering competitions and contributes those talents, as well as time, to a variety of organizations, including: Valley Children’s Hospital, American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association, Gift of Life Foundation, Tulare County Fair, 4H and Future Farmers of America Programs, Tulare Hospital Foundation, Little League Baseball, Youth Football, Creative Center for the Handicapped, Tulare Dairy Fest, and other civic, religious, and community groups.
 

Graduate of Tulare Union High School Married (wife: Gail) Two daughters Bachelors Degree - Urban and Land Economics from California State University, Fresno U.S. Army - Sergeant in Communications, Korea, 1967-69

Employment: Broker/Owner of Target Realty

Former Political Science Instructor - College of the Sequoias

Public Service:

• Elected to Council in November, 2004. Now serving as Vice Mayor
• Previously served on the City Council from 1975-1983; Vice Mayor: March 1977-November 1979, and Mayor: November 1979-November 1983 (as youngest Council Member to ever serve)
• Elected to serve as member of the Tulare Cemetery Board and Tulare Veterans Memorial District Board
• Governors Appointee to the San Joaquin Valley Task Force on Air Pollution
• Past/present member of the Tulare County Association of Governments
• Past President of the Housing and Community Development Committee - South San Joaquin Division of the League of California Cities

Community and Other Service:

• Chairman or Co-Chairman of:
• Tulare Viet Nam Veterans Memorial at Mefford Field
• Tulare Youth Softball - field acquisition and construction
• Boy Scout city-wide flag program
• Sustaining membership drive for scouting
• Memorial Monument in front of Veterans Memorial Building

CRAIG VEJVODA

Graduate of Tulare Union High School Two daughters Bachelors Degree in Business Administration - Humboldt State University Masters Degree in Financial Services - The American College

Employment: Financial Advisor with The Principal Financial Group

Public Service: Elected to City Council in November, 2004, now serving four year term. Currently serving as Mayor.

Community and Other Service:

• Member of Tulare Improvement Program Board of Directors
• Member of Tulare Historical Society Board of Directors
• Member of Tulare Chamber of Commerce
• Member Tulare Rotary Club
• Member of Knights of Columbus
• Volunteer at World Ag Expo
• Volunteer for Tulare Hospital Foundation
• Volunteer wrestling coach

Previous community involvement includes:

• Past-President, Tulare Jaycees
• Past-District Governor, California Jaycees
• Past-President, Estate Planning Council of Tulare & Kings Counties
• Past-President, Kiwanis Club of Greater Tulare
• Past-President, Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors - Fresno Chapter
• Past-Board Member, Tulare Redevelopment Agency
• Graduate, Inaugural class of Leadership Tulare
• Graduate, Leadership World Ag Expo
• Co-Chair, Tulare Relay for Life

Richard Ortega
Married (wife JoAnn)
Four daughters

Graduate of University of California, Davis – B.S. 1954 served US Army in Germany 1955-56 as a
1st Lieutenant

Employment: Retired Dairyman

Public Service:

Appointed to Tulare City Council in August 2001 to fill vacancy left by death of Council Member Reatha Retherford. Elected to City Council in November 2002 for a four year-term; served as Mayor from December 2004 to December 2006; reelected for an additional four-year term in November 2006.
Serves as a representative on:

• Tulare Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
• City Library Building Project Committee
• Tulare County Association of Governments
• City Credit Card Committee
• Historical Element Committee
• Budget Review Committee

Community and Other Service/ Recognitions Include:

• Tipton School Trustee - two years
• Tulare Joint Union High School District Board Trustee 17 years - 1979-1996 (Chairman 1988/89, 1991/92 and 1995/96)
• Cal Aggie (UC Davis) Board of Directors 1979 - 1981
• Chairman of Task Force to locate University of California, Davis, Veterinary Medicine Training and Research Center in Tulare
• Chairman of Tulare County University of California Campus Expansion Task Force
• Co-Chairman, Tulare Community Auditorium Restoration Committee
  Founding Board Member, International Agri-Center - Chairman 1986-88 – Member of Board 19 years
• Chairman Tulare’s Vietnamese “Boat People” Refugee Program
• 1982 Tulare Man of the Year
• 1988 Tulare Farmer of the Year
• 1988 Recipient of Association of California
• Administrators’ Golden Apple Award
• 1988 Jerry Fielder Memorial Award – California Aggie Alumni Association’s (UCD) – Highest Honor in Recognition of Service to Alumni Association, the University and the Davis Campus
• 2000 Recipient of Association of California Administrators’ Golden Apple Award
• Grand Marshal, Tulare County Fair Parade - 1997
• Heritage Complex Board of Directors
• Co-Chairman, International Committee, World Ag Expo
• Member, Tulare Rotary
• Bethel Lutheran Home – Board of Directors
• 2006 Award of Distinction – College of Agriculture and Environmental Science – University of California at Davis
• 2007 Awarded Citation for Excellence – Cal Aggie Alumni Association, University of California, Davis

Wayne Ross

Married to Colleen, 3 daughters
Tulare Union High School Graduate
Bachelors Degree in Finance from San Diego State University

Employment: Owner/Financial Consultant of Ross Wealth Management, LPL Financial

Public Service: elected Nov. 2008 to the Tulare City Council

Community and Service involvement:

• Treasurer for Mission Valley Elementary School
• Member Tulare Noontime Rotary
• AYSO soccer coach
• Tulare youth softball coach
• Leadership Tulare alumnus
• Past Tulare Jaycee of the Year, member
• Past board member Tulare Youth Softball Association
• Volunteer Tulare Hospital Foundation Summer Jubilee
• Homebuilding with Young Life group in Mexico