2023 LOC Board of Directors

Mayor Callaway was elected to the Hillsboro City Council in November 2010, re-elected in 2014, and became mayor in 2016.  His previous experience includes the city’s budget committee, the Hillsboro 2020 Vision Implementation Committee and the city’s planning commission.  Additional community involvement includes the Jackson Bottom Wetlands Preserve Board, the Hillsboro Library Foundation, the Boys and Girls Club and the Hillsboro Schools Foundation.  Mayor Callaway recently retired from his position as a principal at Tobias Elementary School in Hillsboro. 

Mayor Stovall was elected mayor of Gresham in 2021. He makes history as the first Black mayor of any large city in the Portland metro area and across the state. A longtime Gresham resident, Mayor Stovall is the owner and CEO of eRep, Inc. He also serves as vice president of the TriMet Board of Directors and has been featured in The Oregonian for his dynamic leadership when serving as president of the Gresham Area Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center. Mayor Stovall’s lengthy history of volunteer service in local government includes the Gresham Community Development and Housing Subcommittee; as chair of the city’s Charter Review Committee; and the Gresham Task Force on Housing to help create affordable housing units.

Elected in November 2020, Councilor Cowie is serving in public office for the first time.  He worked for more than 20 years at Sony Electronics in many capacities, including VP of Customer Insight, VP of the VAIO Technology Center, Director of Engineering, Director of Product Quality, and program management. His previous work experience also includes many years in the broadcast television and cable television industries. He currently is a customer experience consultant, helping businesses establish and grow their customer experience and employee engagement programs.  (Term ends December 2024)

Mr. Cubic has 17 years’ experience serving as a city manager in Oregon.  He was appointed city manager in Grants Pass in 2012, and previously had served as city manager in Myrtle Point. Mr. Cubic also has 10 years’ experience in county government as a program manager and special district director. In 2014, he served as president of the Oregon City/County Management Association (OCCMA) and has been a member of multiple OCCMA committees, including Finance & Taxation, General Government, and Human Resources.  An International City/County Management Association Credentialed Manager, Mr. Cubic is a graduate of the University of Virginia’s Senior Executive Institute and the ICMA Williamsburg Leadership Institute. (Non-voting position. Term ends December 2025)

Mayor Engelke was elected to North Bend’s first female mayor in November 2020.  She is a longtime North Bend resident, invested in making Oregon’s south coast a better place. Mayor Engelke is a tenured business professor at Southwestern Oregon Community College and teaches a variety of business classes. She has more than 25 years of hands-on experience in the business community and is a former president of the Bay Area Chamber of Commerce. She and her husband Steven Ryan have two teenage daughters, Emily and Sophia.   (Term ends December 2024)

Councilor MacInnes has spent the past 30 years volunteering for her community through a broad range of service activities.  She is currently an EMT-I for the local ambulance service, a reserve deputy for the sheriff's office, and a medicolegal death investigator for the district attorney's office, all in addition to her paying job as a victim advocate for Wheeler County. Elected in 2014, she served eight years as mayor and was appointed to the city council in 2023 after not running for re-election.  Councilor MacInnes previously served on the Oregon Mayors Association Board of Directors, representing all east side rural communities and was proud to be on the OMA Taskforce to address homelessness.   (Non-voting position. Term ends December 2023) 

A resident of Seaside since 2002, Councilor Montero served six years on her city’s tourism board prior to being appointed and elected to the Seaside City Council in 2010.  Having been re-elected in 2014, 2018 and 2022, she is the longest-sitting elected city or county official in Clatsop County. Homelessness has been an important focus for her work.  Her prior community commitments include serving on the boards of the Seaside Downtown Development Association, Clatsop Behavioral Health, Clatsop CASA and Clatsop Development Resources, as well as serving as president of the Seaside Chamber of Commerce. She currently serves on the Clatsop County Budget Committee, the Senior Advisory Council for Northwest Disabilities and Senior Services, and the Clatsop Citizen Review Board.  Councilor Montero holds a bachelor’s degree in recreation administration and a master’s degree in library sciences, and her professional work includes health system and health plan executive management, and serving as executive director for Seaside Downtown Development Association. Councilor Montero assisted in the establishment of the LOC Women’s Caucus and currently serves as its president. (Term ends December 2025)

Councilor Savage has served on the Cottage Grove council since 2021. She previously spent nearly 15 years in the medical field, and currently works as an independent contractor with Blackstone, Inc. Councilor Savage also owns her own photography business. (Term ends December 2024)

Mayor Mays was re-elected in March and November of 2018.  He previously served four years as council president and eight years as mayor of Sherwood from 2005-13.  Over the past 20-plus years, Mayor Mays has served as president of the Oregon Mayors Association, the Sherwood Chamber of Commerce, the Friends of Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge and the Willamette River Water Coalition.  He has also served as a member of Metro’s MPAC and on several LOC committees.  A resident of Sherwood for more than 20 years, Mayor Mays is a Rotarian and currently sits on boards and committees for several local and regional non-profit and government organizations.