Farrell, a 14-year resident of Long Beach, will fill one of two vacancies on the five-member Harbor Commission. The commissioners are appointed by the mayor to a maximum of two six-year terms and are compensated $100 per board meeting.
Farrell will fill the seat vacated by Nick Sramek, who left the board on Nov. 21. The mayor is expected to appoint another commissioner to fill the vacancy left by the Nov. 19 departure of Thomas Fields.
Prior to her current position as the City of Huntington Beach’s Director of Finance, Farrell was Long Beach’s CFO from 2007 to 2010, and, prior to holding that position, she was the Long Beach city controller from 2006 to 2007.
Farrell will be the 65th Long Beach Harbor Commissioner since the current commission structure was formed in 1925. She will be the fifth woman to serve on the Board, and her appointment also marks only the second time in the Port’s history that the Board has had two women members at the same time.
“I look forward to my new role as a Harbor commissioner,” Farrell said. “This is a great opportunity to serve the community and do all I can to help the Port and the city of Long Beach to prosper.”
Farrell received a master’s degree in public administration from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs in New York, and a bachelor’s in Anthropology from Barnard College at Columbia University.
Source: Port of LB
