Paul M. Nowatka - Secretary

 
Paul Nowatka is Vice President of Nowatka & Associates, a public relations and consulting firm to individuals, businesses and political campaigns. A retired Councilman with the City of Torrance, he served on numerous boards and committees including the Workforce investment Network (WiN) Policy Board as chairman, and the League of California Cities. Prior to this elected position, he was Torrance Community Services Commissioner. Paul is a Retired Police Lieutenant, having 33 years of honorable service with the Torrance Police Department.

He has many years of experience in city and regional planning, serving as a director of the Southern California Association of Governments and President of the South Bay Cities Council of Governments. He has been a faculty member of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s “Tools for Tolerance” program and in addition to LINC Housing, is an active board member with numerous community organizations including the Salvation Army, Torrance Education Foundation, University of Southern California Delinquency Control Institute and the Torrance Symphony Association, of which he is the President. Following the attacks upon the World Trade Center in 2001, Paul served with the Salvation Army at Ground Zero for two weeks supporting recovery workers. He acted in a four play series based upon 9/11 in which he portrayed various U.S. Statesmen.