Los Angeles City Controller

The Los Angeles City Controller is an official in the government of the city of Los Angeles, California. The City Controller is the paymaster and chief accounting officer of the city. Along with the Mayor and the City Attorney, the City Controller is chosen by popular vote every four years.

The position began in 1878 as the Los Angeles City Auditor and in the early days included secretarial duties for the Los Angeles Common Council as part of the job. Upon the re-election of John S. Myers in 1925, when the city approved a new charter, the name of the position was changed to City Controller. In 2000, another update to the city charter added the power and responsibility of conducting "performance audits" of departmental effectiveness.^[1]

List of City Controllers

Name	Term
William Whipple Robinson	1878–1886
Freeman G. Teed	1886–1888
M. F. Stiles	1888–1889
Frank E. Lopez	1889–1892
Fred H. Teale	1892–1896
Thomas Edwin Nichols	1896–1898
E. A. Carson	1898–1900
Elijah E. Unger	1900–1903
Lewis H. Schwaebe	1903–1906
William C. Mushet	1906–1909
John S. Myers	1909–1937
Daniel O. Hoye	1937–1961
Charles Navarro	1961–1977
Ira Reiner	1977–1981
James Hahn	1981–1985
Rick Tuttle	1985–2001
Laura N. Chick	2001–April 26, 2009
Wendy Greuel	2009–2013
Ron Galperin	2013–Present

References

1. Sonenshein, Raphael J. (2006). Los Angeles : structure of a city government (PDF). [Los Angeles]: League of Women Voters of Los Angeles. ISBN 0-9668991-1-3.

External links

• Official Website of the City Controller