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The Pleasanton City Council has formally appointed Julie Testa to serve as the city’s vice mayor for 2024.
Testa, who is in her second term on the council, has taken over the rotating leadership position from Councilmember Jack Balch, who served as the vice mayor last year.
“I’m very much looking forward to it,” Testa told the Weekly after her appointment at the Dec. 19 council meeting. “It’s a privilege that I’m very proud to do.”
According to the city staff report, every year in December the mayor reviews and revises assignments to various City Council subcommittees as well as local and regional boards and commissions in accordance with the council’s rules of procedure.
Then, during each December, the council appoints people to those positions for the upcoming calendar year with the approval of the rest of the council. That’s also when a council member is selected to serve as the vice mayor.
Testa, who was first elected to the council in 2018, was recently reelected for another four years on the council in November 2022 as the District 3 representative.
This marks the second time that Testa has been appointed to serve as vice mayor, as she was first appointed to the position three years ago in 2021 during the COVID pandemic. She said that because they were in lockdown at the time, serving as vice mayor back then wasn’t as much fun as she anticipates it will be this year.
Testa said that Mayor Karla Brown will actually be away at Washington, D.C. to participate in the annual Mayors’ Conference, which means she will be presiding over the council and taking the helm during the upcoming Jan. 16 meeting.
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