Yes, as council member of district 3, I host the only in patient HIV treatment center in the County of Fresno.

As council member, I opposed several pollution generating distributions centers and negotiated their pollution impact. Additionally, we funded two regional environmental studies to ensure any future job centers mitigate their pollution footprint. Furthermore, I built the largest solar farm in the Central Valley and led the effort to transition all city facilities to solar power. As a Supervisor, I will hold polluters accountable starting with CEMEX for operating within their permits and mitigating their pollution. Finally, I will OPPOSE any sprawl development and direct growth to existing cities reducing our pollution.

Men and government should not have a say in a woman’s bodily autonomy. As a father of two girls and the only candidate endorsed by Planned Parenthood, I will continue to fight for the right of Woman to have Choice. Most recently, last year, I led the effort to override the Mayor Dyer’s veto for Planned Parenthood state funding.

As a City Councilmember, I led the effort to house 3,000 homeless residents off our freeways in the 10 city shelters we opened in my district. More than 70% of those housed have transitioned to safe permanent housing. As the County Supervisor, I will lead to effort to open several shelters in the County, expand drug and mental treatment programs to ensure residents are getting off the streets into safe housing.

As a councilmember, I led efforts to grow the middle class by keeping tax dollars locally, paying workers a living wage with benefits and retirement. We supported small business expand, improve their facades and recover from the pandemic. Supported mobile food vendors to protect themselves from crime and obtain city and county permits and allow them to work at our city parks. While securing $2 Billion to rebuild the oldest neighborhoods in our city and build 27 new housing projects. I intend the take a similar work ethic and approach to the County Board of Supervisors.

Miguel Arias is a community leader with extensive senior executive, public policy, advocacy, and communications experience. Miguel spent his youth as a farmworker on the west side of Fresno, working to pay his college tuition and learning first-hand the value of hard work. His determination guided him from the harvest fields to the halls of Congress, where he served Central Valley families as a legislative aide to Congressman Cal Dooley. Due to the devastating drought in 2004, Miguel returned to Fresno to lead emergency relief efforts, repurpose retired farmland for new schools and parks and advocate for more water storage and safer drinking water. As College Trustee, Miguel diversified and expanded access to the nursing program, police and fire academies, and career technical education. During his tenure as an educational leader, he helped secure $1 Billion to build new schools and colleges including Bud Gaston Jr. Middle School, Westside Institute of Technology, and two new Fresno City College Campuses in Southeast Fresno and West Fresno. Miguel’s efforts have earned him numerous recognitions including the Educator of the Year award by the Association of California School Administrators; the Golden Bell Award from the California School Board Association; the Community Leadership Award from Centro La Familia; and Community Leadership Award from the Fresno Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Committee. Since November 2018, Miguel has represented the City of Fresno District 3, which serves Downtown, Tower District, West Fresno, and Central Unified communities. As a Councilmember, he secured more than $2 Billion in resources to rebuild neighborhoods in his district, initiated 28 new affordable and market rate housing projects, housed thousands of homeless residents by transforming Motel Drive, and funded a record level of new firefighters and police officers. Miguel and his family live in the historic Tower District neighborhood.