As a lifelong Ontario resident, I have heard from the community and residents what’s truly needed in our city. Through listening, I have heard the same concerns time and time again, and have isolated them into policy priorities. As mayor, my duty is to be a public servant. I will listen and change Ontario so it is actually for the people, not for profit.
01
Uplift Small Businesses
Make it easier for local businesses to open, grow, and succeed.
I have been going shop to shop across Ontario—cafés, storefronts, and family businesses—without a script. Owners tell me what rent, truck traffic, and a slow Tuesday actually feel like, and how hard it is to open a shop or keep one open. Those conversations are not photo ops. They are how this policy was written.
As mayor, I will make city hall useful to the people behind the counter: clearer resources, faster help with permits and city processes, and real connections to opportunities—local purchasing, partnerships, and the support it takes to hire and grow. Entrepreneurs should not be left to figure Ontario out alone.
A mayor who listens writes policy that keeps shops on the block and money circulating here. Strengthen Ontario’s small-business community, and the whole city recovers with it. When local businesses grow, Ontario grows.
02
Transparent Government
The public deserves to know how the city is being run.
Publish project timelines, spending, grant applications, performance metrics, and progress on campaign commitments through a public-facing dashboard.
The city council will make mistakes, but the goal is not to hide those mistakes. Residents should be able to see how tax dollars are spent, which corporations and developers the city works with, and what we can spend less on.
Make city council meetings accessible at all times with live translators. Every resident of Ontario should be able to attend a meeting online or in person. Whether you speak Spanish, English, Chinese, sign language, or more, every decision in city council is for every resident.
03
Support Union Workers
Good jobs build strong communities.
Use city purchasing, contracting, apprenticeship partnerships, and project standards—where legally appropriate—to support quality jobs, skilled workers, and responsible labor practices.
Every worker deserves fair wages, safe working conditions, affordable benefits, and to be treated with dignity and respect, regardless of their background or immigration status.
Unions give workers a collective voice. When we support workers and unions, we strengthen working families and the people who keep this city running.
04
Stop New Corporate-Scale Warehouses
Smart growth. Responsible development.
Review industrial zoning and strengthen consideration of traffic, air quality, truck routes, neighborhood impacts, and cumulative effects while preserving appropriate economic development.
The expansion of warehouses has caused Ontario and San Bernardino County to rank #1 for the worst ozone pollution in the entire U.S., through truck traffic, truck idling, and energy use from warehouses.
Development in Ontario should go back to the residents—parks, stores, small businesses, schools, and more.
05
Better Public Transportation
More reliable transportation. More opportunity.
Work with Omnitrans and regional partners to improve service frequency, accessibility, evening and weekend routes, and connections to major destinations.
Fast repairs on roads and sidewalks. More comfortable bus stops, expanded bike lanes, and bigger sidewalks across Ontario so every neighborhood is easier to reach without a car.
06
Affordable Housing
Make homeownership and affordable housing more attainable for Ontario families.
Ontario families who work here should have a real opportunity to live here. We should prioritize quality, affordable housing built and maintained in partnership with local labor unions and create good jobs. Sell houses through the city to ensure that private developers and corporate landlords do not sell overpriced housing.
Housing should serve the people who call Ontario home, not simply the interests of investors and corporations.
A home should be a place to live, build a future, and raise a family—not just another financial asset.
07
Support Immigrant Families
Since the rise of ICE enforcement around the entire U.S., Ontario has been affected as well. Ontario is a place for everyone, including our immigrants, regardless of immigration status.
With ICE taking away our family, neighbors, business owners, students, and more, it is the city leaders’ job to protect them.
Ban Flock cameras. Flock cameras have been known for targeting immigrants by stalking where their vehicles go based on shared data. Banning Flock cameras would remove this access and protect not just immigrants but everyone and their Fourth Amendment rights.
Creating an immigrant justice fund would help support families who have been targeted by ICE. This type of fund would help immigrant families with lawyers and humanitarian relief.
Immigrants matter just as everyone else. Immigrants work jobs, have children, are students, own businesses, and pay taxes. Families should not have to worry about being separated, and it is the city council’s job to protect them as much as possible.