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Lucy Salazar (Mayor of Madera, California, candidate 2024)
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Lucy Salazar ran for election to the Mayor of Madera in California. She was on the ballot in the general election on November 5, 2024.[source]
Salazar completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Lucy Salazar provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on October 4, 2024:
- Birth date: May 21, 1960
- Birth place: Fresno, California
- High school: Tranquillity Union High, Tranquillity Ca
- Gender: Female
- Religion: Catholic
- Profession: Business Owner
- Prior offices held:
- Madera Unified School Board Trustee President (2018-Prsnt)
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign slogan: "Madera is Better with Lucy"
- Campaign Facebook
- Campaign Instagram
Elections
General election
General election for Mayor of Madera
Cecelia K. Gallegos, Santos Garcia, Wayne Padilla, and Lucy Salazar ran in the general election for Mayor of Madera on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| Cecelia K. Gallegos (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Santos Garcia (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Wayne Padilla (Nonpartisan) | ||
Lucy Salazar (Nonpartisan)  | ||
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Election results
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Lucy Salazar completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Salazar'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 a small business woman for the past 25 year. I have lived in Madera for 40 years, raised 4 children and now have 4 grandchildren. I am currently a School Board Trustee for Madera Unified for the past 6 years; 3 of these years in leadership and currently President.
- Madera needs a new vision for the future. We currently do not have a complete plan to revitalize Madera. Our beautification is important for the future of Madera to progress.
- Madera needs to be a more welcoming with a better system for new business or businesses to expland. We lack the vision to keep the bottlenecking of our businesses.
- We need a better accountablity from our County of funds to us for roads and various agencies. We need walk across the street and ask for the funding that is due to the City from the County.
Our downtown revitalization/beuatification. First, we need to improve our civic infrastructure. Better physical infrastructure can improve the quality of life and create business opportunities for the community. Beautifying the downtown area with projects for aging infrastructure, landscaping, aging buildings to attract shoppers and restaurants along with other amenities, which can stimulate business activities. Supporting our local businesses. Our city has redevelopment opportunity zones which we need to invest in. Inspire local entrepreneurs to dream and implement through classes, partnerships, and grants to invest in our city. Leveraging outside resources to help build our economy for growth. Also to maintain partnerships with “The Arts
I really cant say I look up to any one person. I gather several examples to learn from but I have never been a follower
No I have gained my experience by attending various leadership conferences. Attended various coures in leadhership and my role as a Board member and being a part of a whole board.
To be able to collaborate and view things from various ways. To adapt and respond professionally in disagreements.
I am passionate, sincere, have no agenda. I take data and create my own vision and able to articulate to directors/supervisors where the concerns are and how we can discuss to implement change or better with accountablity and I am not afraid to ask the difficulty questions from local, state or federal government for assitance, collaboration in leveraging funding and support.
Not to loose focus of the citizens we represent. The values of the good for the city, community, citizen of Madera.
I have not honestly thought about a legacy. Leave a community/city that our children, grandchildren will be proud to live in and return with their families as well.
When I met Gerald Ford when he came to Fresno Ca.
My very first job I worked in a small department store for 4 years part time after school and sometimes on weekends.
"The 5% Rule is Gold"
Hmm I have never thought about it. But I wanted to be a Deputy Marshal. I was to go to training for it but was not a good time in life. Captian Benson of 'Law and Order"
"What a difference a Day Made"
People thinking because I have no Master degree I am not intelligent enough but I have a broad experience and I do continue educating myself for my business, and depending the leadership role I am representing.
It means I take leadership with council to agree to approve an agenda to move the city to create a city we live in and want our citizens to be proud to live in and have their families live in.
To meet with City Manager of what is priorities of our city and t bring to council what needs to decided on based on the better for the city of Madera.
In the city of Madera is a member of the city council. City council has taken away some power from Mayor. The important thing is to maintain the working relathsionship with the city manager to report back to council as a whole.
It is not a big city. Our School district is making strives in approving our students eduacation with a belonging approach and pride in each student.
The biggest challenge is in our beautification/revitilazation of our city.
We currently have a good working relationship with our assembly, senator and congress and representatives. We need to continue along with our county to collaborate in the better of the city and the county.
To have an open communciation and be able to communicate with our Congressman, Senators and Respresentatives for our area.
Its not a joke a story, well a snip of a tv sitcom with ROsanne Brar/"Rosanne". Rosannie has been calling family to let them know their father has passed. She tells her sister Jackie its her turn to do the calling. So Jackie calls her aunt to let her know her dad has passed. " She tell the Auntie Barbara: This is Jackie, repeats it several times. Tells her shes fine. She has bad news. "Dad is Dead' The Aunt cant hear and Jackies repeats it, Aunt still cant hear. Jackie tells he's gone, he's left.... He sends his love". We share this snip to our families sometimes when it appropriate.
To have a collaboration, communication, engaging on safety and especially communication and engagement with the community.
The National Women of Political Caucus and The Young Democrats
Each department has a budget. Each department has that director/supervisor is responsible for that part of the budget. To be run that department as efficiently in every way to be the best it can be. To work with the City Manager who then reports to the Council/Mayor a summary of this budgets that we review to maintain and balance and review what is working and not working as the funds we are implementing to get the job done as efficectively and efficiently.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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