Politics & Government

Paul Ybarra Stepping Down From Common Council

Waukesha aldermen wants to spend more time with his family and is required to travel internationally for his job.

Waukesha Alderman Paul Ybarra is stepping down from public office to spend more time with his family while his work as vice president of sales at Tangoe is requiring increased international travels.

The announcement comes just two months after he was re-elected into office with no challengers seeking the District 5 position.

Ybarra’s children are 6 and 9, he said, and he wants to continue coaching them in sports and spending quality time with them before they become middle and high school students.

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“So many people have told me ‘don’t miss these years, you are going to regret it,’” Ybarra said.

Ybarra was appointed into the position and then re-elected every term since then. He leaves the Common Council with seven years of experience, two of which he served as council president.

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Ybarra announced his resignation in a memo to Common Council members and Mayor Jeff Scrima on Tuesday:

For the last seven years it has been my privilege to serve my neighbors in District 5.  Serving as alderman has been a challenging position, but a position I have thoroughly enjoyed.  Although with the additional global responsibility my company has asked me to fulfill, balancing my duties as an alderman and the responsibilities of a young family have been challenging.  For this reason June 11, 2013, will be my last council meeting as alderman serving District 5. 

My anticipated resignation will be July 15, 2013 but I will speak with the city attorney to determine the necessary time period required to publish this opening and let you know the exact effective date.  I wish to minimize the time period my neighbors are without representation.

Ybarra highlighted several areas of his service in office as being rewarding, including helping move Waukesha’s Great Lakes water application forward, creating child safety zones limiting where sex offenders are allowed to live and/or loiter and introducing a ban on K2, which is a synthetic marijuana.

“We were the first in southeastern Wisconsin,” Ybarra said about the ordinance prohibiting the substance in Waukesha. “(We) really stopped it before it became an epidemic.”

Additionally, Ybarra enjoyed working with council members and especially city staff members, he said.

“These guys care,” Ybarra said. “They work hard for city residents.


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