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I, Andrew W. Ting, have lived in El Cerrito since 1987. I graduated from El Cerrito High in 1991. I earned my bachelor degrees in Music and Economics from U.C. Berkeley in 1995. Go Bears!!! From 1995–1997, I went to University of Minnesota to pursue my masters of music with an emphasis in Orchestral Conducting. After coming back to El Cerrito, I realized that my passion has always been in education. I began teaching in the public schools under West Contra Unified School District in 2000 while attending California State University, Hayward to obtain my teaching credential. 

In the five years I have been with the school district, I taught band, orchestra, math and ELD. I have also served as the varsity coach in football and track & field for El Cerrito High from 2001-2003. Currently I am teaching math and music at De Jean Middle School in Richmond.  

In the spring of 2005, I started my own business, Pacer Sport Inc. (www.pacersport.com) in El Cerrito. I understand the difficulty and frustration of starting a new business. I am in support of promoting our local businesses. Positive growth in local businesses will certainly help our city to achieve economic stability. I am currently a member of the El Cerrito Chamber of Commerce. I am quite honored to join this group of business owners in serving our greater El Cerrito community.  

Having gone through and benefited personally from the public school system throughout my entire educational career, I wanted to give back and devote my time to my community especially to our children so they too can realize their dreams. I want to encourage our city to promote arts and music for our youths. We need to focus our attention in educating our youths for they are our future.  

As an elected council member, I will listen to the public voice. Your concerns are my priority. While dealing with taxpayers’ hard earned money, I want our city to make sensible financial decisions. As we are faced with an increasing amount of crime rate in our city, I demand that our public safety be improved. Furthermore, instead of spending our limited budget on unnecessary projects, let’s shift our attention on fixing our damaged roads and other deteriorating public works that have been neglected for some time now. Lastly, let’s not put any more financial burden on our residents by raising sales tax and property tax in order to generate more funding for our city. Instead, let’s make our city more business friendly so we can attract more healthy businesses to invest and operate in El Cerrito. Once our local businesses began to prosper and flourish, more funding will naturally be generated for our city via sales tax.  

As a long time El Cerrito resident, I believe our city hall needs a fresh voice. Let’s work together to make El Cerrito a better place for all of us to live in. We deserve the best people to work for El Cerrito. Therefore, I sincerely ask and seek for your support for my candidacy. Please elect Andrew Ting for El Cerrito City Council.  

For more information, please visit www.andrewting.org or write to me at support@andrewting.org. Remember to vote on Nov. 7.