Andrew Sandoval
Candidate for City Council Member, Salinas, District 5 · Councilmember/Educational Director
Andrew Sandoval is a lifelong Salinas resident, the son of immigrant parents who worked in agriculture before building their own small businesses, including a bicycle stand at the Sky View Drive-In flea market, Superb Water Stores, and Saul's Menswear on Alisal Street; his father became a crew foreman and business owner and his mother became a real estate broker. He previously served on the Santa Rita Union School District board before being elected in November 2022 to represent the community for a four-year term. He is a small business owner, married with four children active in local youth sports, and has said his parents instilled in him the values of caring for people, working hard, and treating everyone with respect. He has worked to direct city sales-tax revenue toward sidewalk and pothole repair, supported expanding park maintenance and safe recreation spaces, and backed a tiny-home village and additional shelter capacity — building on programs like the SHARE Center and hotel-based housing acquisitions — to address homelessness.
Positions in brief
Andrew Sandoval's priorities center on affordable housing, sidewalk and road repair, improving public parks, reducing homelessness through shelter and tiny-home solutions, and keeping the city clean.
Sandoval says the city's biggest issues are affordable housing, sidewalk and road repair, public parks, and cleanliness. He has criticized the pace of sidewalk repair funded through Measure G and pushed for pothole fixes and traffic calming. On parks, he wants existing facilities maintained to basic safety standards. On homelessness, he supports a tiny-home village and safe spaces for unhoused residents, pointing to the SHARE Center and hotel acquisitions as prior progress, and says a cleaner city helps attract businesses and jobs. He has also said the city should keep jobs local and ensure councilmembers are informed of and approve agreements between city staff and large corporations.
On the issues
Supports expanding affordable housing so people who live in Salinas can continue to afford housing there.
“I will advocate for more affordable housing and make sure we do what we can to have people that live in Salinas be able to afford a house in Salinas!”
Source →Criticizes the pace of sidewalk and pothole repair and says Measure G sales-tax revenue should go toward fixing streets.
“The residents shouldn't feel like they are off-roading when driving in Salinas, unless the city wants to pay for car shocks, we need to fix our streets.”
Source →Supports a tiny-home village and safe spaces for people experiencing homelessness, citing progress through the SHARE Center and hotel-based housing.
“I'm in support of a tiny home village, and a safe place for our homeless, this will help keep our city clean.”
Source →Wants to keep jobs local and require transparency around agreements between city staff and large corporations.
“We need to keep our jobs local and support working families. We can't allow big corporations to make back-door deals with staff while the representatives that we elect don't know or don't approve these non-disclosure agreements.”
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