A few basics about me…

Family, Community, Service

Serving on the Redondo Beach City Council is my way to support all three of these pillars of our life.

My wife Jen is a devoted special education teacher of over 25 years, our boys Aldon and Rolf Ryan are in 3rd grade and 7th grade respectively. I serve our city to preserve our unique and cherished beach community way of life, especially for our future generations.

For me, service is a vital part of giving back to our community that has given so much to us.

I am currently serving on the Board of Education of Redondo Beach Unified School District (elected citywide in 2021), as well as the Board of Education for Southern California Regional Occupational Center (President for unprecedented 2 years in a row).

I also served on Redondo Beach Charter Review Advisory Committee (2022 to 2024, Chairman entire time), leading this critical city committee in much needed updates to our City Charter (our city’s “Constitution”) that have been 100% successfully approved by our voters citywide!

Served as a Redondo Beach Planning Commissioner where I consistently opposed overdevelopment and on multiple occasions I personally helped individual residents overcome their difficulties in navigating city bureaucracy.

Also served on the Redondo Beach Recreation and Parks Commission and have been an avid supporter of maximizing the usability of our limited park spaces and finding increased sources of funding. Keeping the AES powerplant site zoned as park space and seeking more funding to do so is a critical priority for our city.

I am a graduate of the Redondo Beach Citizens Police Academy and an avid supporter of the Redondo Beach Police Foundation.

I was also selected for the honor of serving as the Cubmaster of our local Cub Scout Pack for year and a half until my elected duties demanded more of my time.

Education:

Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from University of Texas at Arlington

Post Graduate Diploma from the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Rhode St Genese, Belgium

Executive Program in Management from UCLA Anderson School of Management

Rolf’s Priorities

Preserving our unique and cherished beach community environment

Working closely with city administrators and residents to overcome ongoing state mandates and greed driven developers that seek to turn our city into another overcrowded Santa Monica
Keeping the AES site for park space, increasing our tree coverage for beauty and heat reduction, capturing new funding for our parks and reinvigorating recently closed storefronts on PCH

Mitigating our increasing traffic issues

Working with our police and staff to reduce the ever increasing impact of traffic in our community, especially our resident focused streets, the only truly effective solution is ongoing enforcement
Education, regulation and enforcement of the exponentially growing impact of e-bikes in our community

Building Trust with Active Transparency

I am adamant about proactively keeping our residents informed of what is happening in our city, constantly going beyond the ineffective “the information is available” mindset
Engaging and supporting residents to be more involved in our community, we all need to have a voice in our city

Fighting for Funding

While our tax revenue remains the foundation of our funding, increasingly we find that grants and specialized fund sources play an increasing role that we have to go after, there is no waiting for them to come to us
Increasing funding for expansion and upkeep of our parks, our developer fees are sorely in need of another update since I last pushed for this years ago