Andrea Galvan (Ontario City Council District 4, California, candidate 2024)
Andrea Galvan ran for election to the Ontario City Council District 4 in California. She was on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024.[source]
Galvan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Andrea Galvan provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on October 6, 2024:
- Birth date: August 29, 1990
- Birth place: Fontana, California
- Other: Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2012
- Gender: Female
- Religion: Catholic
- Profession: Project Manager
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign slogan: Planting the Seeds for a Brighter Future.
- Campaign website
- Campaign endorsements
- Campaign Instagram
- Campaign YouTube video
Elections
General election
General election for Ontario City Council District 4
Norberto Corona, Andrea Galvan, Celina Lopez, Daisy Macias, and Jose M. Nikyar ran in the general election for Ontario City Council District 4 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| Norberto Corona (Nonpartisan) | ||
 | Andrea Galvan (Nonpartisan)  | |
| Celina Lopez (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Daisy Macias (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Jose M. Nikyar (Nonpartisan) | ||
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Election results
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Andrea Galvan completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Galvan's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am an avid volunteer and currently serve as Treasurer on the Ontario Museum Associates, and as a board member at the Fox Community Culture Fund. I have previously volunteered with many organizations some key focus areas include: immigrant & refugee support, mentoring young people at risk of being involved with the juvenile justice system, introducing young people to STEM & Trade careers/ union apprenticeships, and environmental activism.
I am a third generation Ontario resident. My father immigrated with my grandparents from Michoacán to house on Holt Blvd. in the 1960s. Today I live around the corner from my grandma and enjoy getting to pop over to visit whenever I want. My mom was born on a farm in rural Kentucky and was raised by a single mom on a union income. I am the proud older sister of a union wildland firefighter.
All of these experiences and my profound love for our community shape my desire to fight for Ontario to be a place we can all be proud of and that serves the needs of working families.- Ontario needs a champion that is ready to fight for working families. We have had more than 30-years of leadership that has led us to having the worst air quality in the nation, which is a symptom of the problem. We need someone who is willing to say 1. We have dedicated far too much land to warehousing (222 million square feet in Ontario alone), and 2. that the warehousing is harming our community through pollution and hurting the development of young brains and lungs, and 3. warehousing is not bringing the good jobs our community was promised. As we enter a new era of automation we must also be proactive in attracting new jobs to replace the hundreds of thousands of jobs economists predict our region will lose in the medium term.
- We must invest in creating safer communities by using smart data-driven policy. District 4 has been left behind compared to the rest of the city in new investments in our parks, and streets. There are very cheap solutions we can implement now to begin having an impact in our neighborhoods. Studies have shown cleaning up vacant lots reduces crime by up to 60% and gun violence drops by up to 30% in neighborhoods where trash is cleaned from the streets. Traffic calming (slowing cars down) measures like adding trees and plants to medians and putting art near intersections reduces accidents by 20-30% and pedestrian fatalities by between 50-90%. Every school and park in the city should benefit from these basic and smart investments.
- We must invest in more affordable housing. The average household income in our district is about $80,000 per year. Much of the growth of new housing is unaffordable 'luxury' apartments, and massive new homes in Ontario Ranch. We must attract affordable developments for working families. And get creative in supporting people in having the freedom to build ADUs (granny flats) in their own backyards. AARP recommends it is a great way to subsidize incomes for retirees too. One plan I would work to implement right away is a scheme to offer pre-approved plans for ADUs for reduced fees to help people make the costs more affordable.
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See also
2024 Elections
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