Pamela Torliatt is a fourth generation Petaluman and for the past fourteen years has served the community, from 1992 to 1996 as a Planning Commissioner and for the last ten years as a Petaluma City Councilmember.  She was recently re-elected to the Petaluma City Council and received the highest number of votes in city history.  She has been praised as a tireless worker and as one local paper described –

“Torliatt is arguably the hardest working member of the City Council and has devoted hundreds of hours of service on a variety of regional boards which helps ensure clear communication between Petaluma and neighboring jurisdictions on issues such as transportation, water resources and air quality, all of which are important to maintaining Petaluma's quality of life.” (Argus Courier - October 13, 2004)

She has been appointed to numerous regional boards and commissions including the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. These two governmental entities have authority over air quality and allocate about a billion dollars to transportation projects in the nine bay area counties.

As a leader she has helped taken important steps to increase Petaluma's vitality and made progress dealing with long standing issues facing the city.

These broad-based accomplishments include:

• Adoption of an Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) which helped to protect Petaluma's open space, quality of life and created economic incentives for city-centered development and redevelopment.
• Adopted a Central Petaluma Specific Plan, helping to reshape the city's blighted core and revitalize the downtown economy.
• Helped Create and Implement the Petaluma River Enhancement Plan which is a visionary document to create public access and trails along the entire length of the Petaluma River.
• During her tenure at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission she secured $21.3 million dollars for the San Rafael HOV lane completion and another $8.3 million for the Steele Lane interchange improvement in Santa Rosa.
• As a Director for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, she has been a leader in creating ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to reduce global warming and fighting for cleaner air.
  
• Campaign contribution limits that I helped put in place to reduce the influence of money is a maximum $200 per individual or company.

Pamela was born and raised in Petaluma and attended local public schools.   In 1989, she graduated from University of California at Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.