Meet Jerry Garcia

Staying involved. Keeping you informed. Helping Victoria move forward.

Welcome, and thank you for visiting.

Victoria is my home. I’m committed to contributing my experience, energy and ideas to help make it safer, more welcoming and more prosperous.

This website is a place to understand what’s happening at City Hall, explore practical solutions and take part in shaping our city’s future. Here you’ll find:

  • Council meeting summaries: Clear explanations of important decisions, spending and debates, and what they mean for residents and businesses.
  • The issues that affect you: Housing, public safety, homelessness, transportation, infrastructure, property taxes and our local economy.
  • Community initiatives: Updates on efforts to improve neighbourhoods, support the arts, create safer streets and help people move out of homelessness.
  • Progress and accountability: A look at commitments, results and where more work is needed.

My approach draws on experience as an engineer, business executive, entrepreneur, project leader, educator and community volunteer. I believe in listening carefully, examining the evidence and turning ideas into practical action with clear responsibilities and measurable results.

Victoria has talented people, strong neighbourhoods and much to build on. Progress depends on residents, businesses, community organizations and government working together.

I invite you to share your ideas, raise concerns and stay connected. Your experience can help identify what needs attention, and what we can do about it.

Please email me at: info@jerryforvictoria.ca.

You can also use the Stay In Touch button below to sign up for my newsletters.

Thank you,
Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia

Engineer  |  Executive  |   Entrepreneur  |  Project manager  |  Volunteer  |  Educator

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Five Priorities

For a Better Victoria

Five outcomes, one course, each backed by a plan the city can actually deliver.

Five Outcomes Poster

Jobs, opportunity, and revenue for the services that matter.

  • SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESSES
  • FASTER PERMITS
  • BETTER JOBS
  • MORE INVESTMENT

Prosperity funds everything else.

A stronger economy generates the tax revenue needed to invest in housing, parks, transportation, public safety, arts, recreation, and social programs.

KEY ACTIONS

  • Make Victoria the easiest city in B.C. to start and grow a business.
  • Actively attract new businesses and private investments to Victoria.
  • Expand innovation, technology, ocean and clean-energy sectors.
  • Cut permitting times by at least 50%.
  • Revitalize downtown as the region’s economic engine.

SUCCESS MEASURES

  • Median incomes
  • GDP per capita
  • New business creation
  • Total private investment
  • Commercial vacancy rates
  • Employment growth

PLATFORM DETAILS

Safe streets and strong communities build trust.

  • SAFER STREETS
  • COMMUNITY SAFETY TEAMS
  • COMPASSION + ENFORCEMENT
  • VIBRANT DOWNTOWN

Compassion and enforcement must work together.

Residents, businesses, and visitors should feel safe using streets, parks, playgrounds and transit.

KEY ACTIONS

  • Visible foot patrols and community safety teams.
  • Focus enforcement on repeat offenders and organized crime.
  • Better lighting, cleaning, and rapid graffiti removal.
  • Strong partnerships between businesses, community associations, VicPD, outreach workers, and health services.

SUCCESS MEASURES

  • Business confidence
  • Violent crime
  • Property crime
  • Resident perceptions of safety
  • Downtown pedestrian counts

PLATFORM DETAILS

Housing, health care, and hope — not just management.

  • HOUSING
  • TREATMENT & RECOVERY
  • MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT
  • MEASURABLE OUTCOMES

Move beyond managing homelessness to reducing it.

The goal should be permanent housing with the supports people need to remain housed. The target is to reduce homelessness by 85%.

KEY ACTIONS

  • Expand supportive and transitional housing. People need homes to heal.
  • Increase access to detox, treatment, and recovery.
  • Manage and coordinate governments and service providers around shared outcomes, tied to funding.
  • Create integrated community health centres.

SUCCESS MEASURES

  • Quality- of- life surveys
  • Chronic homelessness
  • Housing placements
  • Treatment completion
  • Overdose deaths
  • Emergency room visits 

PLATFORM DETAILS

Efficient, transparent, accountable government.

  • ATTAINABLE HOUSING
  • PARKS & PUBLIC SPACES
  • TRANSPORTATION
  • COMMUNITY HEALTH

Improve quality of life across all 12 neighbourhoods.

People should be able to live, work, shop, and enjoy recreation close to home.

KEY ACTIONS

  • More attainable housing.
  • Better transportation options.
  • Better traffic flows and parking options, assisted by smart city technology.
  • Parks and public spaces.
  • Community health centres.
  • Support for local neighbourhood businesses.

SUCCESS MEASURES

  • Resident quality-of-life surveys
  • Housing affordability
  • Active transportation use
  • Access to health care
  • Park accessibility

PLATFORM DETAILS

Complete, livable places to live, work, and belong.

  • TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT
  • FASTER DECISIONS
  • SMART CITY
  • FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY

Focus on results, not process.

Residents expect City Hall to be responsive, accountable, and efficient.

KEY ACTIONS

  • Public performance dashboards.
  • Faster approvals, permitting and housing completions.
  • Evidence-based budgeting.
  • Better regional collaboration.
  • Increase our fair share of funding from senior governments
  • Smart city technologies to improve service delivery.

SUCCESS MEASURES

  • Transparency metrics
  • Permit approval times
  • Citizen satisfaction
  • Project delivery
  • Budget performance

PLATFORM DETAILS

They create a virtuous cycle:

A stronger economy generates the revenue to invest in housing, public safety, transportation, parks, and health services. It provides higher incomes and helps to close the affordability gap.

Better public safety attracts businesses, customers, residents, and visitors. 

Effective housing and treatment reduce pressure on emergency services and improve community well-being for everyone. 

A more efficient City Hall delivers projects faster and earns public trust. Finally, livable neighbourhoods improve quality of life and make Victoria more attractive to families, workers, students, retirees, and investors.

A SIMPLE VISION

Build a safer, healthier, more prosperous Victoria through practical leadership, accountable government, and measurable results.

FIVE OUTCOMES

  • Grow the Economy.
  • Restore Public Safety.
  • Solve Homelessness with Housing, Health Care, and Recovery.
  • Build Great Neighbourhoods.
  • Make City Hall Work Better.

These outcomes reinforce the key theme: “Delivering Results That Matter.”

The Virtuous Cycle

Infographic showing how the five outcomes reinforce each other

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