Rebecca Saltzman

Thanks El Cerrito voters for electing me to serve on the El Cerrito City Council! I am so thankful to all of you. To everyone who donated, volunteered, spread the word about my campaign to your friends and neighbors: this victory is yours too. 🧵

We're thrilled to see El Cerrito featured in the San Francisco Chronicle today! Thank you for shining a light on our welcoming and diverse city. Read the article at loom.ly/NhZxlzk

Seamless transfer from BART red to yellow line tonight. But if I had missed the connection, the next train comes in 10 minutes. We must fund transit and preserve this service. Without state funding, BART service could be reduced to one train per hour. We can’t let that happen!

El Cerrito was struggling to hire and retain childcare workers, so the City raised wages and now the school aftercare program is nearly fully staffed. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Paying living wages is critical to retaining staff and providing excellent city services.

Extra grateful for multiple transition options today. The El Cerrito Plaza BART station closed due to a medical emergency right after I arrived, so I’m taking @rideact 72R to the @BikeEastBay office in Jack London Square.

Love that I start every week walking my daughter to school down the Ohlone Greenway and then walking up the Greenway for my weekly meeting with El Cerrito City Manager Karen Pinkos. ❤️🚶🏼‍♀️🌳

Had an amazing day hiking with my daughter to the top of the El Cerrito Natural Hillside Area and enjoying incredible views. We’re so lucky to live in El Cerrito, where we can both walk to amazing hikes like this and walk to transit to connect with the rest of the Bay Area.

Happy Valentine’s Day! My family started our celebration with heart shaped pancakes and a walk/scoot to school on the Ohlone Greenway. So grateful to have this gem that welcomes families and people of all ages and abilities to safely walk, bike, and scooter together. ❤️🚶🏼‍♀️🚲🛴

@cccta @Ashmew8 @owfowfa I haven’t been on your new buses yet. What do they look like? What lines are they on?

@RebeccaForEC @Ashmew8 @owfowfa Yes, all our new buses have/will have vinyl seats. (The lifecycle of a public bus is about 12-15 years.)

So appreciate a heated bus waiting for me as I exit a BART station on this rainy evening ❤️🚍🚝 Any guesses what transit agency I’m riding?

@thecanavigator Yes!

@RebeccaForEC county connection!!

@r_mohtashemi I thought you were required to know that for your job 😉

@RebeccaForEC Wow! Lucky guess.

@Ashmew8 @owfowfa I wasn’t sure if AC Transit was still running buses with fabric seats, haven’t seen them in ages. Thanks for the info!

@RebeccaForEC @owfowfa County Connection’s new buses have vinyl. That being said, Tri Delta Transit, Wheels, WestCat (pretty sure), still use fabric seats. SamTrans also has em on some older buses. Not sure about the others, but GGT and ACT run buses with them on the express/transbay routes.

@owfowfa Yes! Is it the only one left with fabric seats? There are so many small bus agencies. I wonder if any others still have them.

@RebeccaForEC County connection. Fabric seats

@r_mohtashemi Yes!

@RebeccaForEC County connection?

Had a fantastic afternoon at the open house of the newly remodeled Kensington fire house with my daughter, who loved climbing on and exploring inside of fire engines. Kensington contracts with El Cerrito Fire Department, so this is 1 of 3 fire stations the department works from.

Huge congrats to my friend Congressmember @lateefahsimon! Her community swearing in today was such a joyous event, something we all need right now.

Join us on Jan. 20 for El Cerrito’s 36th annual Martin Luther King Jr. parade and rally!🇺🇲 Participants will meet at City Hall at 9 a.m., walk in the parade at 10 a.m. and gather for the rally at El Cerrito High School at 11 a.m. ➡️ For more: El-Cerrito.org/MLK.

Spent much of the last two days on El Cerrito tours and briefings, an absolutely fascinating and humbling experience as I realized how much there is for me to learn as a new councilmember. So appreciate all the City staff, many of whom I met and learned from.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Building more housing near transit is one of the best ways to stop climate change. Thanks Senator Wiener and @cayimby for this important bill!

@RHAlexander They did that in Berkeley at one point. It was next to useless and the flags kept disappearing.

@RebeccaForEC In SLC downtown they give you orange flags to wave, there is a holder with a bunch of them on each side of the crosswalk

Maddening that I have to wave both of my arms above my head for several seconds to get car drivers to stop for me to walk across this crosswalk between a park and a school. We need to slow down cars on Moeser through infrastructure improvements.