Candidate for
Council Member; City of Claremont

Councilmember Corey Calaycay is serving his first term on the Claremont City Council (March 2005- March 2009). This is his first position as an elected official.

Corey was born in Chicago. Not long thereafter, his family moved to Claremont where he has resided for nearly thirty-five years. He is a parishioner of Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church. He attended the United Church of Christ Pre-School, Foothill Country Day School, and Webb School of California. He went on to Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, receiving a degree in Business Administration in 1992.

In 1990, he ran his first race for Claremont City Council at age nineteen. While he did not win, he garnered a strong 2,382 votes. He ran unsuccessfully again in 1992 and 1994 before finally receiving the nod of the voters in the election of March 2005. At his installation on March 16, 2005 Councilmember Calaycay remarked that his 15-year journey to City Council brought new personal meaning to the old adage, "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again."

Corey had been an active leader in the community in the years prior to his election. He served on the Los Angeles County Local Suppression of Drug Abuse in Schools Advisory Committee and is Past-Chair of the City of Claremont Library Task Force, Past-President of the Friends of the Claremont Public Library, Past-Treasurer and Past-President of the Claremont Educational Foundation, and a founding member and Past-President of Active Claremont. He currently serves as a member of the Selective Service System, Local Board 194.

Corey has over ten years of experience working for the California State Legislature and has had the opportunity to serve constituents in more than thirty communities in the region around Claremont including parts of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange counties. He has worked for former Assemblyman Bob Margett (59th District), former Assemblyman Bob Pacheco (60th District), former Assemblyman Todd Spitzer (71st District), and former State Senator Bob Margett (29th District).

Councilmember Calaycay serves as the council representative to the California Contract Cities Association. He is also the City's representative to Foothill Transit where he serves as alternate to President Paula Lantz on the Executive Board. He is the council alternate representative to the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments and the Los Angeles Division of the League of California Cities.