Proactive Leadership
For District 6

End the out of touch council spending by infill development and efficient timelines. Every dollar this city spends should be traceable, defensible, and felt in our neighborhoods.

• Infill Development: Building within our existing footprint means the city isn't stretching new roads, water lines, and police and fire coverage across the desert — it uses infrastructure we've already paid for, while filling vacant lots that drag down property values in established neighborhoods.
• Efficient Timelines: Hold contractors accountable to their deadlines and budgets. Delayed public projects cost taxpayers twice.
• Audit City Spending: Every outside contract, Capital Improvement District project, and outside-counsel invoice over a set dollar threshold should face an annual, publicly posted audit. If a firm can't show the work, they shouldn't get the check.
• Present at Every Meeting: Every budget session attended, every vote explained publicly.

Push for economic development plans that citizens want and not corporations. El Paso cannot keep balancing its budget by cutting year after year — we need to grow the pie, not shrink the plate.

• Development Citizens Actually Want: Mixed-use, walkable development that adds rooftops and small businesses to existing corridors — not another warehouse district that adds truck traffic without adding jobs residents can actually get.
• Recruit Quality Employers: Target healthcare, advanced manufacturing, and skilled trades — sectors that pay above the median wage and build on what UTEP, EPCC, and Fort Bliss already feed into, rather than chasing call centers and warehousing.
• Real Community Agreements: No tax abatement without a signed community benefits agreement — local hiring commitments, wage floors, and clawback provisions if the company doesn't deliver.
• Diversify the Economy: El Paso can't keep leaning on retail and logistics alone. Growing healthcare, advanced manufacturing, and binational trade-support industries spreads the risk so one downturn doesn't gut the city budget.

You will always know what's happening at City Hall and how every decision affects your home and your neighborhood. Too many residents of District 6 find out about decisions after they've already been made.

• Every Vote Explained: Plain-language updates on what council decided and what it means for you.
• Input Before the Vote: A District 6 community briefing before every major budget or land-use vote, with the agenda item explained in plain language and a real chance for residents to weigh in before council acts, not after.
• Accessible Office Hours: Bi-weekly community town halls held across the district.
• Bilingual Communication: Every newsletter, mailer, and public update goes out in English and Spanish. No resident should be locked out of knowing what their government is doing.

Create neighborhood associations across the district, put idle district funds to work, and bring community spaces and events back. Our neighborhoods should feel like neighborhoods again.

• Neighborhood Associations: Organize and support associations in the parts of District 6 that don't have them, so those neighborhoods have a formal voice to compete for available city funding — and put idle district funds to work backing the projects those associations bring forward.
• Community Spaces & Events: Listen to constituents on what they'd like available community spaces to become, and bring back neighborhood block parties and seasonal events that give District 6 families a reason to gather close to home.
• Streets & Traffic Safety: Prioritize where your traffic safety concerns are and streamline neighborhood traffic programs.

From housing to basic necessities, it is getting too expensive to live a full and dignified life in El Paso. That has to change.

• Fight Utility Rate Hikes: Push back on rate increases that aren't backed by a transparent, itemized case, and demand that our utilities show their work before El Paso families are asked to pay more.
• Property Tax Relief: Advocate to the State Legislature to lower your taxes, and give residents the resources to dispute their home valuations.

Survey citizens to see what industries they want in El Paso, keep our youth in El Paso, and make sure our working-age residents have fulfilling jobs right here in our region.

• Living-Wage Jobs: Prioritize incentive deals that come with binding wage floors, not just headcount promises.
• Workforce Pipelines: Deepen city partnerships with UTEP, EPCC, and regional trade programs so training tracks match the jobs actually being recruited to El Paso, not jobs that exist somewhere else.
• Cross-Border Commerce: Protect and strengthen the Juárez trade relationship that already drives our regional economy. Under USMCA, El Paso's advantage is the border, and city policy should treat that as an asset, not an afterthought.