Felipe Perez represents an at-large seat on the Firebaugh City Council, with a term running through November 2026, and has previously served as both Mayor Pro Tem and Mayor, holding the mayor’s seat as recently as 2023. No verified information on his occupation or education was found in public records.
In May 2023, while serving as Mayor, Perez was one of three council members — along with Brady Jenkins and Freddy Valdez — accused by longtime Fire Chief John Borboa of micromanaging city departments, after the council rejected a fire-station security-system purchase in closed session, a decision reporting suggested may have violated the state’s open-meetings law. Borboa resigned after more than 40 years with the department. Perez was the only one of the three officials to respond publicly, telling a reporter that “the City does not comment on personnel matters.”
