In September 2025 S&P raised the city's ratings to A+, pointing to a continued improvement in El Cerrito's financial position and enhanced financial management policies and practices.

Getting our unfunded liabilities to a minimum is my top priority, including prepaying down our CalPERS obligation. Every dollar of debt we leave in place is a dollar that comes out of services later.

In February 2023 the state named El Cerrito a Prohousing Community, one of only ten in California at the time, for cutting red tape and speeding up housing approvals.

I want this city to keep building housing for everyone: affordable homes, the missing middle, and market-rate. El Cerrito is one of the few cities in this region actually building housing for all, and I intend to keep it that way, including at our two BART stations.

Our local economy is still recovering from the pandemic, but I've helped new businesses open in El Cerrito. We need new businesses along San Pablo Avenue, and we need to think outside the box about what belongs at El Cerrito Plaza. I want businesses that let people earn a living here.

Emergency medical response times in El Cerrito are fast, and I intend to keep them that way. I have supported community policing so that officers know the neighborhoods they work in, and I have backed the city's wildfire prevention work in the hills. Recreation and senior services are not extras. They are the reason people stay in this city as they get older, and they are what gives kids somewhere to be after school. I will judge these services by what residents actually experience: how long they wait, whether the program they want is running, and whether they can afford it. Not by what a budget spreadsheet says is adequate.