I have lived in Arcadia my whole life. It’s where I went to school, it’s where I have my business and it’s where I have chosen to raise my family.
My accomplishments, since you first elected me to City Council in 2016, include:
- I championed harmonious and compatible design of new homes with new design review rules, a Floor Area Ratio (FAR): limiting the size of new homes to a percentage of the lot size, and the first Historic Preservation Ordinance for Arcadia;
- I secured $167,000 from LA County to help homeless in Arcadia find housing;
- I helped introduce the Ring Doorbell home security program to our residents, making neighborhoods safer;
- I created a Financial Advisory Committee made up of Arcadia residents, to provide recommendations to pay down the unfunded pensions, promoting transparency and accountability;
- I worked to bring back a basketball court with the renovation of Eisenhower Park, reinforcing the priorities of the community;
- I brought the Patriotic Festival, Holiday Fair and Halloween Haunting to Downtown Arcadia, enhancing the quality of life for residents;
- I connected to the community through many activities including Mahjong with the Mayor and Coffee with the Mayor;
- I convinced LA County to re-open the Spreading Basins in the Highlands, so more water was diverted into our aquifer instead of flowing to the ocean;
- I currently serve as Mayor.
I hope I get the opportunity to meet you in person and share more of what I have done and what I plan to do if re-elected.
Sincerely,
-April Verlato
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The extent the police union will go to in order to protect one of their own and use their influence over city council is indescribable. Read my latest email to find out the status of the report my neighbor and I filed against an officer who was on the executive board of the Arcadia Police Officer’s Association and part of last year’s negotiation team. Last July, I voted “no” to union contracts because they put the City in a budget deficit. Sonia dared to publicly challenge police union endorsed candidate Councilman Paul Cheng who falsely claimed the police department was down 1/3 of its police force in order to justify his “yes” vote on the contracts. It seems that our actions led the police union to initiate a campaign of retribution against us. A year ago, Sonia and I reported what was happening to the police because we wanted to prevent corruption of our police department. We kept quiet about it because we didn’t want anyone to know what the police union was doing. We didn’t want to negatively affect the reputation of our police department. Unfortunately, the officer’s wife and police union members continued to publicly try to defame me and Sonia on social media in a pattern of veiled threats and character assassinations. We had no choice but to go public with what happened in the hopes that the union members back off. It seems they have doubled down in an attempt to prevent accountability. #ThisIsArcadia #ArcadiaCa #FormerMayor #UnionExtortion #BudgetDeficit #PoliceMisconduct #ProtectingTheIntegrityOfTheBadge![]()
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Email from April Verlato Next Council Meeting Is Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 7pm The Letter The Arcadia Police Officer Union recently wrote to the City Manager and City Council asking to renegotiate
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