Beatrice "Bea" Proo is a former council member and mayor of

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. Proo was elected to the Pico Rivera City Council in 1992, and was re-elected in 1997 and 2001. She has served as the city's mayor on three occasions. Proo has been a member of the

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Association of Governments, an executive board member of the Gateway Council of Governments, president of the

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Division, and a president and board member of the Tri-Cities Regional Occupational Program. She was also nominated as the first ever Woman of the Year in 1987 by the

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's 59th district.http://www.ci.pico-rivera.ca.us/government/citycouncil/councilbio/Bea%20Proo.pdf Proo, a former teacher and school principal, holds a

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in Education from

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and has served as a member and president of the

El Rancho Unified School District The El Rancho Unified School District is located in the City of Pico Rivera, California. School closures During the summer of 2008, the El Rancho school board voted to close four elementary schools (Pio Pico, Obregon, Selby Grove, Meller) in orde ...

Board of Trustees and is the current and founding Chairman of the Board of Pacific Western National Bank in Pico Rivera since 1980.

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