10:45am | Mayor Bob Foster announced Tuesday that he has appointed former Long Beach Vice Mayor Doug Drummond and Rich Dines, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s Southern California District Council to the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners.
The appointments will be reviewed by the City’s Personnel and Civil Service Committee and sent to the City Council for approval a process that will begin next week.
According to the release, former Vice Mayor Drummond was elected to the Long Beach City Council to represent the Third District from 1990 to 1998. He was employed by the Long Beach Police Department for more than 29 years.
Drummond recently served the on the board of directors for the Long Beach Transportation Company. He has also taught criminology and management classes for 20 years at the University of Southern California, California State University Long Beach and August Vollmer University. He has been a resident of Long Beach for more than 70 years.
As a local ILWU president, Rich Dines leads an organization that represents over 20,000 workers in the region. A longshoreman by trade, Dines is best known in his volunteer role as ILWU Council president where he leads an effort to impact politics and policy on behalf of the ILWU. He is also an active member of the Long Beach community. Dines is a board member of the Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network and sits on the Policy and Steering Committee for California State University Long Beach’s Center for International Trade and Transportation (CITT).
The resignations of Mario Cordero and Mike Walter opened the two vacancies on the Harbor Commission.
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Disclosure: Long Beach Post publisher Shaun Lumachi is chairman of the Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network board of directors.