Mateo Bedolla
Candidate for Mayor, Tracy · Teacher/Tracy Councilmember
Mateo Bedolla is a public school teacher in Tracy who has taught and coached basketball in Tracy classrooms. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from California State University, East Bay, and worked as a congressional staffer for U.S. Representative Jerry McNerney starting in 2015, helping seniors and veterans resolve Social Security and VA issues. He was elected to the Tracy City Council in 2020, becoming the youngest council member in city history. As chair of the council's Homelessness Advisory Committee, he helped secure more than $20 million in federal, county, and local funding to build Tracy's 151-bed low-barrier emergency shelter on West Arbor Avenue, open since 2022 and credited with helping more than 200 people find stability. He also helped clear a long-standing homeless encampment at El Pescadero Park and led resurfacing of its basketball courts and lighting upgrades.
Positions in brief
No detailed public platform for Bedolla's current mayoral candidacy was found in available sources beyond his record on homelessness response.
Bedolla's council record centers on homelessness response, including securing shelter funding and clearing long-standing encampments, and on youth programming through his work as a teacher and coach.
On the issues
- Infrastructure & Transportation
Wants to continue infrastructure and recreation projects he backed as councilmember, including road repairs and the aquatic center.
“I want to finish what we started — the Aquatic Center, better roads, housing people can actually afford, and parks where Tracy kids can grow up.”
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Points to his record helping secure emergency shelter funding and clearing an encampment, and supports expanding affordable and senior housing.
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