Pedroza To Lead Metropolitan Transportation Commission As Chair

NAPA COUNTY, CA — Napa County Supervisor Alfredo Pedroza took the helm Wednesday of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.

By a unanimous vote, Pedroza’s peers elected him to serve a two-year term as chair of MTC, the transportation planning, financing and coordinating agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.

“As the Bay Area, like the rest of the world, looks ahead to emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, recovery and resilience will be front and center in all of MTC’s work,” Pedroza said. “That means working with our partner transportation agencies to adapt to new travel patterns and new budget constraints while continuing to focus on the user experience; working with our cities and counties — and so many others — on new solutions to the Bay Area’s housing crisis; and helping to make sure all Bay Area residents and all Bay Area communities get to participate in the region’s economic recovery.”

The Napa County Board of Supervisors elected Pedroza to represent Napa County on the commission in 2017, and in 2019, he was elected to a two-year term as MTC's vice chair.

Prior to serving as a county supervisor, Pedroza was elected to the Napa City Council in 2012.

In 2014, then-Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Pedroza to represent the Fourth District on Napa County's Board of Supervisors. In 2016, Pedroza was elected to a full term as supervisor and in 2020, he was re-elected for another four-year term.

A Napa native, Pedroza is a graduate of Sonoma State University, where he earned a degree in business administration with a minor in economics.

Pedroza is the second Napa County supervisor elected chair of the commission; the first was current state Sen. Bill Dodd.