Tonia Reyes Uranga, a former Long Beach City Council member, is running for the Southern California Water Replenishment Board Division 3 seat. The race is on the Nov. 3 California general election ballot.
The race is nonpartisan.
Three other candidates are also running: Al Austin, Mike Murchison and Tracy Burns, according to BallotReady. Reyes Uranga is certified for the ballot.
Candidate information
- Name: Tonia Reyes Uranga
- Party: Nonpartisan
- Residence: Long Beach (Wrigley neighborhood)
- Education: Bachelor's degree in history, University of California, Los Angeles
- Current work: Principal owner, TRU Consult (since 2011), according to BallotReady
Experience and public service
Reyes Uranga served on the Long Beach City Council from 2002 to 2010, according to BallotReady profile data. She also served as a governing board member of the South Coast Air Quality Management District and as a member of the League of California Cities Latino Caucus, according to Historical Society of Long Beach records.
She served as executive director of the Miguel Contreras Foundation from 2011 to 2015, according to BallotReady. She also chaired the nominating committee for the Coalition for Clean Air from 2014 to 2015.
Reyes Uranga is council president of the Long Beach chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens, according to the LULAC National Convention 2025 speaker page. She has also served as vice president and, she says, president of the board at Goals for Life, a Long Beach nonprofit. She claims board membership at the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, according to her X profile.
A longtime Long Beach resident, Reyes Uranga had lived in the city for 45 years as of 2019, according to the Press Telegram. She was born in 1954, according to Historical Society of Long Beach records.
On the issues
The candidate's policy positions for this race were not available in reviewed materials at the time of publication.
This profile was built from publicly available records, BallotReady data and the candidate's social media. No candidate interview was available for this profile.
