{"id":26907,"date":"2024-12-11T12:35:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T19:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=26907"},"modified":"2024-12-16T23:37:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T06:37:43","slug":"youngest-mayor-elmer-martinez-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/youngest-mayor-elmer-martinez-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Redwood City makes history by electing youngest mayor, Elmer Martinez Saballos"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Councilman Aguirre retires after 19 years of service<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Former Mayor Jeff Gee has passed the torch to Elmer Martinez Saballos to be the new and youngest mayor of Redwood City. Photo: P360P<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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There have been many changes in the council of Redwood City<\/a> with the addition of two new members and a change in city leadership that has made history as former Mayor Jeff Gee has passed the torch to Elmer Martinez Saballos to be Redwood City's newest and youngest mayor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Martinez Saballos is originally from Redwood City and is excited about this new role.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On Monday, when Martinez was sworn in as the new mayor of Redwood City, he gave a speech to the crowd, where he spoke about his origins in an immigrant home and the struggles they went through, as well as sharing his firsthand experiences of seeing friends leave the city due to the housing crisis, and how he lost friends to gun violence.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNowadays, families are leaving Redwood City because they can\u2019t afford the rising rents. And I remember walking to Sequoia High School and seeing fewer and fewer classmates who could join us. And I\u2019ve lost friends to gun violence,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In light of this, Mart\u00ednez Saballos is so passionate and considers improving housing, public safety and reinvesting in youth to be his main priorities, because he knows that it is essential to continue seeing the city prosper.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The City Hall chambers were filled with memories, laughter and tears when Alicia Aguirre retired from the council after 19 years of service.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Neighbors, friends, colleagues, and even his children came by to say a few words of appreciation for the incredible work he has done for the community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Her children took the stand to praise her for being a fantastic community leader, grandmother and mother.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In an interview with Peninsula 360 Press, Aguirre said that the reason for her retirement is the limitation of mandates, but that she is delighted to retire. Her greatest achievement in the last 19 years has been \u201clistening to our constituents and our community to see what they want and need and to be able to build the housing that we have. For me that is very, very important.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite her retirement, Aguirre will remain busy teaching at Ca\u00f1ada College and working with young women to move into leadership positions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, and after a close race between Lissette Espinoza-Garnica and Isabella Chu that was reduced to 15 votes, Chu said she was very grateful to all those who helped her in the campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am extremely grateful and appreciative of my opponent. She ran a very honorable and clean campaign. She knows that we agree on many things and I plan to work with her,\u201d said the current councilwoman for District 3.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chu's priorities will be related to the community's public health, improving infrastructure and building more affordable housing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chu also took the stand during public comment to express his gratitude to Lissette Espinoza-Garnica and all the work she has done for the community, in addition to the clean electoral contest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The new representative chosen to fill the seat of former Councilwoman Alicia Aguirre for District 7 will be Marcella Padilla, who said she is excited and knows she has \u201cvery big shoes to fill\u201d now that she occupies Aguirre\u2019s seat.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There have been many changes to the Redwood City Council with the addition of two new members and a change in city leadership. Photo: P360P<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cShe is not a very big woman, but her shoes are very big. I hope Alicia continues to be a resource. She has been a great mentor to me and I look up to her and look forward to her guidance, and I really value and respect her,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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*Concejal Aguirre se jubila tras 19 a\u00f1os de servicio Escucha esta nota:   Se han producido muchos cambios en el concejo de Redwood City con la incorporaci\u00f3n de dos nuevos miembros y un cambio en el liderazgo de la ciudad que ha hecho historia, ya que el ex alcalde Jeff Gee ha pasado el mando […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":26924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[295,9,14,277,297,274,272,2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colombia","8":"category-community","9":"category-cover","10":"category-featured","11":"category-latinoamerica","12":"category-lunar-new-year","13":"category-fact-check-p360p-verificado-verify-false","14":"category-peninsula","15":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26907"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26943,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26907\/revisions\/26943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}