Mayor Bill Wells was first elected to the El Cajon City Council in 2008 and continues to serve, after being re-elected in 2022. He was born in East County San Diego and has called El Cajon home since 2002. He and his wife Betty have three children and two grandchildren. He has been a mental health professional, working mostly with the severely mentally ill, in both clinical and administrative roles.
We can fix much of this if we can find the political will to do so. Each state needs to develop a realistic plan to deal with our national psychiatric crisis.