2025 LOC Board of Directors

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.  

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.

Councilor Clark was elected to the Portland City Council in November 2024. She has lived in Oregon all her adult life and has been a public policy advocate in the public and private sector. From housing to transportation to good government, she has been a successful change agent. Most recently she was Governor John Kitzhaber’s Intergovernmental Affairs Director and later his Legislative Director during his first two terms. She later retired from TriMet where she successfully secured the resources to build our iconic Tilikum Crossing and the buildout of the last two lines of our light-rail system. Earlier in her career Olivia worked for three mayors in Salem and founded a nonprofit to build farmworker housing.

Mayor Cross has led the city of Toledo since 2018. He ran for mayor to restore stability and civility to the city, and believes his biggest accomplishment has been giving staff and citizens the tools to not just survive the recent pandemic but to thrive during it. Toledo has had more projects completed in the last two years than the previous several years, including launching the ART Toledo initiative, the urban renewal project, and coordinated efforts to improve the city of Toledo with its school system. Mayor Cross currently serves as the Past President of the Oregon Mayors Association. (Term ends December 2025)

Mayor Kebler was elected mayor in 2022, after first being elected to the city council in 2020. She  grew up in Bend, graduated from Bend High School, and returned to her home town in 2018.  Mayor Kebler has spent her career working for the public, serving for years as a state prosecutor and a crime victims’ rights attorney before being elected to the Bend City Council. She attended the University of Michigan, where she received a bachelor’s in English and classic civilizations, then earned a law degree at Portland’s Lewis and Clark Law School.  (Term ends December 2027)

Mayor Rich Mays and his wife Rose moved to The Dalles from the Oregon Coast in January of 2015.  His 40-year career in public service includes 33 years in municipal government, with 28 as a city manager in Cannon Beach, Jefferson City, Missouri; and the cities of Collinsville and Sterling, Illinois.  Mayor Mays also served as the interim county manager for Clatsop County following his retirement from Cannon Beach in July of 2014. He has a bachelor’s degree in recreation and park administration from Western Illinois University and a master’s degree in public administration from Northern Illinois University. Rich and Rose are members of the Gateway Church and moved to The Dalles to be closer to their daughter Christine and their two grandchildren Olivia and Carter, who helps Rich volunteering for The Dalles High School Booster Club.  (Term ends December 2026) 

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 Economic 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, Sunset Empire Transportation District Advisory Committee and the Clatsop Citizen Review Board.  Councilor Montero holds a bachelor’s degree in recreation administration and a master’s degree in library sciences; her professional work includes health system and health plan executive management, retail ownership, public relations and serving as executive director for Seaside Downtown Development Association. Councilor Montero assisted in the establishment of the LOC Women’s Caucus, serving two years as president and continuing to serve on its board. (Term ends December 2025)

Mayor Rosener was initially appointed to fill a vacant council seat and went to on to win a special election and a subsequent general election. He now serves a two-year term that expires in January of 2025. Mayor Rosener has a passion for local government and currently serves as the chair of the LOC’s Broadband and Advocacy Communications Committee, as well as the Oregon Broadband Advisory Council.  As a leader in the U.S. Air Force, and later as a small business owner, the majority of Mayor Rosener’s 33-year career focused on delivering innovative technology and consulting services to more than 900 local governments across the United States.  He provided software solutions that helped cities with everything from running finance and payroll to planning and zoning, infrastructure asset management, utility billing, permitting, and community outreach/engagement.   His current focus is on giving back to his community, and he enjoys leveraging all he has learned in his career to help his hometown move forward.​​​​​​ (Term ends December 2026)

Councilor Mays most recently served as mayor of Sherwood from 2018-2022 after previously serving as mayor from 2005-2012. He also served as Council President from 2001-2004. Over the past 20-plus years, 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, Mays is a Rotarian and currently sits on boards and committees for several local and regional non-profit and government organizations.