Mark Salinas
Candidate for Mayor, Hayward · Mayor/College Instructor
Mark Salinas is a Hayward native born at St. Rose Hospital and raised in the Schafer Park neighborhood. He attended Eldridge Elementary and St. Bede Catholic School and graduated from Hayward High School. After transferring from Chabot College, he earned a bachelor's degree in La Raza Studies and a master's degree in Educational Administration and Public Policy Studies from San Francisco State University. He has taught Ethnic Studies and History at Chabot College for more than 30 years and has lectured in Ethnic Studies at California State University, East Bay. He has served on the Hayward City Council since 2010 and was elected mayor in 2022.
Positions in brief
Salinas's platform centers on public safety, economic development, housing and homelessness, and responsive local government.
Salinas says he will keep supporting public safety and make it easier for entrepreneurs and businesses to grow in Hayward. He has focused on solving the city's housing and homelessness crisis and says his central focus has been listening to neighborhoods and making local government responsive to residents and businesses.
On the issues
- Public Safety & Policing
Supports continued public safety funding and staffing.
“always supporting public safety.”
Source → - Economy & Jobs
Supports making it easier for entrepreneurs and businesses to grow in Hayward.
“it easier for entrepreneurs and businesses to grow in Hayward.”
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Supports solving the city's housing and homelessness crisis.
“solving Hayward's housing and homelessness crisis.”
Source → - Government, Elections & Democracy
Supports making local government more responsive to neighborhoods and businesses.
“a central focus over the years has been to listen to neighborhoods and then make local government responsive to neighbors and businesses.”
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