Council Member David Toro Unopposed to Represent Colton’s District 1

Colton City Councilmember David Toro is running unopposed and will be re-elected to represent Colton’s District 1 on the November 2014 ballot. Toro, who has served for a total of eight years on the council, said he spent “four years fighting to do the right thing and support elected officials to help achieve that, and four years putting them in place.” He told the City News he looks to “continue and complete work established in the West End, now known as the Colton Hub City Centre.” To this end, Toro said he uses his motto, “Initiate, follow through, complete” to lead his district in its “forward moving momentum.” He will also work to better the city’s economic situation and his main goal is bringing in “jobs, increase in home values and revenue to the city, which will also add jobs for higher and better services to our community,” Toro said. Another large concern of Toro’s, citywide, is its beautification. With a goal of implementing citywide beautification projects, he said, “We need to improve the look of our city.” He said, “My decision to run is based on the work I began in 2006, some which has just been completed, but most… in the works to benefit the city’s future businesses, jobs, home values and quality of life to those that live and work in Colton.” During the last eight years, Toro said some of his major accomplishments have been senior housing, helping lower electric rates and eliminating utility tax, bringing development to the city with the Delhi Sands Flower-Loving Fly resolution, which will preserve land for this endangered insect, and helping establish the city’s military banner program, in which banners honoring Colton’s military veterans and service members have been erected in the city. Toro said he wants to be a “voice of the people,” and other focuses for this four-year term will be further development to the city’s west end with Arrowhead Regional Medical Center as the anchor, bringing in restaurants, fuel stations and gyms and increasing city revenue to provide “competitive wages and keeping quality employees.”