<p>Joey Thurman:<br />What is it like to be the first Latino deputy mayor of Aurora? Well, today we're talking to Memo as everybody calls him and he says he's not a politician. He's for the people he even says, if he's not right for the job, somebody else should his place. Wow. If the rest of the politicians could be just like Memo. You are not a politician per se.<br /><br />Guillermo Trujillo :<br />No.<br /><br />Joey Thurman:<br />You even made a point that said, "Where's your spot up here?" And you said, "No, I hang out back there. I don't do the politics." Why don't you do the politics?<br /><br />Guillermo Trujillo :<br />Well, I was never involved in politics. That was far, far away from my mental law, passing or at least mental issue or image. I have nothing to do with that. I was always in law enforcement. So when you're dealing with law enforcement, you treat everybody equal. So there's nothing that has to do with politics. There's no one side or the other. You have to look at it exactly from the facts and the evidence. That's how I worked all my life. And when the mayor approached me and says, "Hey, I want you to be my deputy mayor." I'm like, "Man, I am not politically correct, politically involved." And he goes, "That's exactly why, because you're not involved. I want you to look at, from the outside in and a different perspective, give me some feedback in regards to how you think you would address this issue and then help me divide and conquer."<br /><br />Joey Thurman:<br />And what's your day to day like? What are you responsible for?<br /><br />Guillermo Trujillo :<br />Well, basically I help out with constituents complaints, any issues that the mayor does not have to deal with, which whether it's be someone complain about their City Inspections not doing their job or someone where just called me yesterday about a sidewalk being, it's needs to be repaired. Senior citizens needing some services of labor union issues. That's what I deal with. I deal with the small fires. I let the big ones, the mayor handle. And he does all the big projects. I deal with the small ones.<br /><br />Joey Thurman:<br />All right. You stomp out the fire. That's your job?<br /><br />Guillermo Trujillo :<br />Pretty much. I'm the filters I always say is I'm the filter. If it doesn't have to get to him and I can deal with it, that's the best. That's the job.<br /><br />Joey Thurman:<br />You're really for the citizens and trying to do what's best. If you being the job is best, great if not, somebody else?<br /><br />Guillermo Trujillo :<br />Yeah. I did 30 years in law enforcement that's to protect and serve and I've done it happily until it was time to retire. And when he asked me, I said, "If I can do a little bit longer then great." How much longer, I don't know, how long will I stay here? Will I move? Will I... Depends on a day to day operations. And again, the bottom line is, am I meeting the expectations of my job? Am I doing the job I'm supposed to do? And am I serving him for his purpose? And if not, then please let me know. And like I said, I've always said, "If there's someone better for the job, then give them a shot."<br /><br />Joey Thurman:<br />What about your family? And what do they think of all of this?<br /><br />Guillermo Trujillo :<br />My parents are very proud. My family are very proud. Again, never thought of being in politics. We don't have any politicians in our family. We didn't have any officers in our families, but it becomes an issue where I think they're proud of what I'm doing, but I'm not doing it for me. I'm doing it for not just my family. It's for everybody else. Again, if I did it, anybody else can do it.<br /><br />Joey Thurman:<br />What's your message for the people of Aurora and how are you going to help them? Sure they have a lot of concerns about the economy and COVID and crime and economic development. There's a lot of things that we have to worry about right now. What's your message for them?<br /><br />Guillermo Trujillo :<br />My message to them is they have someone that will be willing to listen to them, willing to be able to speak for them, willing to be able to let their voices be heard, one. Two is that there's opportunity for everyone. And that again, if you work hard and you have the resources and you're willing to go out there and look for them, you can find them. And I'm hoping to be here as a connection between the citizens in the mayor's office, the Alderman's office, which I work very close with and all the other workers, staff in city hall and throughout the city, that if there is an issue that you have at your house, with the neighbor, with the community, you can always call and I may not have all the answers. I'll find some answers might not be the answers you want, because I'm not here to make everybody happy, but at least I'm willing to listen to you. And hopefully I can try to take it one step further.</p>