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Jose Martinez-Saldana
Jose Martinez-Saldana ran for election to the Gavilan Joint Community College District Board of Trustees to represent Trustees Area 7 in California. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Martinez-Saldana completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2022
See also: Municipal elections in Santa Clara County, California (2022)
General election
General election for Gavilan Joint Community College District Board of Trustees Area 7
Incumbent Irma Gonzalez defeated Jose Martinez-Saldana in the general election for Gavilan Joint Community College District Board of Trustees Area 7 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Irma Gonzalez (Nonpartisan)  | 70.2 | 5,940 |
 | Jose Martinez-Saldana (Nonpartisan) | 29.8 | 2,522 | |
| Total votes: 8,462 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Jose Martinez-Saldana completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Martinez-Saldana'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 educator with over 30 years of professional experience who can contribute to the strengthening of the Gavilan Joint Community College District and ensure the highest possible quality education for current and future students.
My campaign is focused on 3 priorities: 1. Student Success, 2. Fiscal Health, and 3. The College for Today and Tomorrow
I have a proven record of getting results!
● Secured $200,000,000+ in funding for college and non-profit consulting clients
● Founding administrator at CSUMB that grew one small $350,000 grant program into a department with 11 distinct programs with an annual budget of over $3,000,000
● Led effort that increased San Benito County in 2020 U.S. Census participation resulting in increased funding for county and local jurisdictions
● Increased recruitment and enrollment of Tri-County students at CSUMB and SJSU
I am grateful for your support in the November 8 election!- My priority is and has always been student success. So I commit to do everything possible to expand access to Gavilan College for SBC residents and work with district and community leaders to upgrade district instructional facilities. In the short term that includes expanding offerings at the existing campus in Hollister, at Hollister HS, San Juan Bautista, and in other locations where there is space and students to fill classes. It also means expanding distributed and hybrid courses for those students that cannot get to an educational center. In the not-too-distant future it means opening and operating a more robust Hollister Campus, which I know many SBC residents have prioritized.
- I want to see Gavilan continue on a path to fiscal health. Fortunately, the budget for 2022-23 is a great step in the right direction, so now we need to see how the district can expand the funding that it leverages from state and federal sources as well as partnerships with industry and with apprenticeship that building trade unions have created to expand access to more SBC residents. We must closely monitor and safeguard existing funds, but to be responsible, we must also seek additional funding streams that go beyond our local tax base so we can enhance facilities, instruction and the supportive services students need.
- Leadership is about placing the community's best interest before your own personal ambitions. To that end, I will work hard to build effective and productive collaborative partneships that will place the District's service to the community as the guiding principle. My 30 years in educational leadership are filled with examples of my ability to bring people together and to focus on the common good. Debate is great and it is important to have healthy disagreements, but at the end of the day, a Trustee must deliver for the District and the community.
only options were jobs that were physically hard and with long hours and low pay. I remember
my mom working as an electronics assembler during the day and then working a shift at a
cannery, not because she was crazy or enjoyed it, but because our family was in need and so
she sacrificed. My dad was a truck driver for a large agricultural company in Santa Clara County, so he would leave to work before dawn and then in the evening my older brother and I would go help him unload the last truckload of chives so that my dad could come home a little earlier before the kids had to go to sleep. Those
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See also
2022 Elections
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