Leadership & Accomplishments
Thank You Mayor Butts!
Under Mayor Butts’ leadership,
Inglewood has experienced a renaissance!
Super Bowl LVI
LA Philharmonic
YouTube
The NFL Network
Showtime
In 2023 NCAA Championship Bowl Game
WrestleMania
Clippers
2028 Olympic Games
Housing and Affordability
The City of Inglewood has more affordable housing units per capita than anywhere in the South Bay, Westchester, Culver City, or Santa Monica. Inglewood has been constructing affordable housing since 1969. 43% of those units were opened in the first 7 years of Butts’ administration. Over the next three years, under Butts’ leadership, Inglewood added 130 more affordable housing units which are more than any city in the South Bay.
- Inglewood has the lowest rents in the South Bay.
- Rents are capped annually at 3%, the lowest in the State of California.
- Inglewood has the most affordable housing than any city in the South Bay.
Better Streets And A Stronger Infrastructure
From day one, Mayor Butts’ has worked to renew the long-neglected infrastructure of Inglewood, including roads, water, sewer systems, sidewalks, and parks.
- Inglewood has repaved more street lane miles of roadway, and linear feet of sidewalk than any previous administration in the history of Inglewood
- 20 years overdue, Mayor Butts oversaw the reconstruction of Century Blvd. and Imperial Hwy
- Renewed its water/sewer system
- Trimmed trees
- Installed state-of-the-art underground fiberoptic cable to prepare Inglewood to become a home to future data centers
- Completed renovations on the baseball fields at Darby and Ed Vincent Parks.
- The basketball courts and Inglewood Playhouse at Edward Vincent Park have been redone for the enjoyment of Inglewood residents and visitors
- State-of-art tennis courts and tennis programs at several parks
- Once defunded under previous leadership, under Butt’s administration, Inglewood has produced the No. 1 Residential Sound Insulation program in the United States.
Ending the Homelessness Crisis
Inglewood continues to provide more transitional housing for the homeless than the entire South Bay city combined.
Like many other mayors grappling with an ever-increasing homeless population, it’s an issue that is always at the forefront of Butts’ work as mayor. Inglewood’s homeless population, when compared to other nearby cities, is still relatively low.
Creating Generational Wealth
Due to the increase in property values under Mayor Butts’ administration, Inglewood property owners now have generational wealth to pass on to their children that now rivals the adjacent, affluent South Bay and upscale L.A. neighborhoods.
Butts is proud to say that six low-income homebuyers had their purchase of a home in Inglewood subsidized through the city’s first-time homebuyers program in 2019.
Inglewood Means Business
SoFi Stadium is the most spectacularly designed, cutting-edge sports arena in the country. The
still-fabulous Forum has been renovated to provide a one-of-a-kind acoustic experience for music lovers. Inglewood is still home to many historic local diners and you can always grab a meal at some of the best Mexican, Somali, Nigerian, Jamaican, vegetarian, or soul food restaurants in the region.
A Debt Free Inglewood
Under Mayor Butts’ leadership, sales and property tax receipts have risen steadily.
Inglewood has engaged in entrepreneurial advertising collaborations resulting in income for the city.
Inglewood’s bond rating has risen from BBB-(just above junk bond rating) to AA- and A+ in just nine years.
A Safer Inglewood
Inglewood is in its 9th consecutive year of being the lowest annual crime total in the recorded history of Part I crime in Inglewood. Crime has dropped nearly 70% compared to the peak year of 1981.
Butts’ appointed a top-tier Chief of Police, Mark Fronterotta, and he has assembled a first-class command staff.
We have invested $10.7 million in the Inglewood Police Department in the past 11 years.
More Inglewood Residents Working
Our unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been since the 1970s. Unemployment has dropped from 17.5% in 2010 co 4.7% pre-pandemic.
Inglewood has become one of the South Bay’s most tech-oriented, job-producing, and business-incubating cities.
Inglewood Development Agreements ensure that ALL residents of this majority Black and Latino city have benefitted from an “Inglewood-first” hiring orientation. This has resulted in resident placement in prevailing wage jobs and careers.
Our local unions have ensured that residents are fast-tracked through the security process for training and job placement as well.
Inglewood residents have and will continue to benefit from strategic alliances with the development and investment community.
Climate and Sustainability
Mayor Butts continues to work to transform Inglewoods streets and expand walking, biking, and transit.
Under Butts’ leadership, there are more public places and spaces for Inglewood residents that are walkable, bikeable, green, and safe.
Mayor Butts shares in Inglewood resident’s excitement about the K Line, also referred to as the Crenshaw/LAX Transit Project, and its added tremendous convenience for those who want to avoid congested streets and highways by choosing instead to walk, bike, and ride Metro Bus and Rail.
With a park and ride lot and planned connections to a new Metro active transportation corridor, the Fairview Heights Station will play a prominent role in meeting Inglewood’s future multi-modal transportation needs.
