John Fasana

A resident in Duarte California since 1985, John served as a Duarte City Councilmember from 1987 through 2020, and represented San Gabriel Valley cities as an appointee to the 14-member Los Angeles County Metro Board of Directors from 1993 through 2020.

First elected as a councilmember in 1987, Mr. Fasana represented the people of Duarte and five times served as the city’s mayor. During his tenure, John and his colleagues helped the City of Duarte successfully establish a graffiti abatement program and build a teen center. Mr. Fasana and his colleagues built new parks, a performing arts center, built a senior center, established an effective anti-gang strategy without implementing an injunction, and developed access to regional bicycle trails. These leadership actions reinforced Duarte’s reputation as the “City of Health”. Mr. Fasana is an advocate for youth and worked with City of Hope to establish a summer program for Duarte students, served on the Duarte Education Foundation and local YMCA boards, and with his colleagues adopted the Youth and Family Master Plan consisting of 66 action steps to promote the wellbeing of Duarte youth and families.

John represented the San Gabriel Valley on the Los Angeles County Metro Board since Metro’s inception in 1993 through 2020 and served as Metro Board Chair in 2001-2002 and 2016- 2017. During his tenure on the Metro Board, John tirelessly worked with his colleagues in Sacramento and Washington DC on behalf of Los Angeles County to obtain several billion dollars for critically needed multimodal congestion relief projects, including establishment of Metro Express Lanes. These voter-approved high priority transportation projects have created thousands of jobs within Los Angeles County and improved Los Angeles County’s economic vitality.

Mr. Fasana served on the Board of the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments (COG) since its inception representing 31 cities and over 2 million residents working together to solve regional issues. As Chair of the COG Transportation Committee, John provided policy direction that led to creation of the Alameda Corridor-East (ACE) Construction Authority that builds rail grade separations in the San Gabriel Valley to facilitate safe freight movement out of the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. Mr. Fasana’s policy direction also led to establishment of the Foothill Extension Construction Authority Board that built the Gold Line light-rail and the extension to Azusa that began serving customers in March 2016. The line will extend to Pomona in 2025. John served as Metro’s representative on the Foothill Extension Board.

In 2015, John retired from his Regulatory Project Manager position with Southern California Edison after 35 years of service. John retired from his position on the Duarte City Council in 2020. In 2021, the California Transportation Foundation recognized John as the 2020 “Elected Official of the Year”. Since leaving office, John has been active in the Rotary Club of Duarte and recently serve as President. He is a graduate of Whittier College.