JonathanOntiveros
for Burbank City Council
for Burbank City Council
Three seats. Three votes.
Make one of them Jonathan.
Together We Can!
Election Day is November 3, 2026.
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Continue to siteThree generations of the Ontiveros family have lived in Burbank. Jonathan is running to protect the neighborhoods that made this city worth staying in, and to keep it within reach of the next generation.
Meet Jonathan
Jonathan Ontiveros was born and raised in Burbank and graduated from John Burroughs High School. He met his wife Julianna, a Burbank High graduate, in this city. Together they are raising three sons here, where the Ontiveros family has lived for more than forty years.
Those three boys are the reason he pays attention to the fields, parks, and streets they use every day. They are also the reason he reads a paving schedule or a park budget the way other parents read a school calendar.
Professionally, he builds the infrastructure cities run on. As a Senior Civil Engineering Assistant with Los Angeles County Public Works, Jonathan has spent more than a decade on streets, water systems, drainage, and capital projects. He reads engineering plans, reviews cost estimates, and holds contractors to their schedules. Most of what a City Council votes on is exactly this: a capital improvement plan, a utility rate study, a traffic analysis, a specific plan running four hundred pages.
Those documents decide what a city becomes, and they are rarely written to be easily understood. The cost that matters is in an appendix. The traffic assumption that drives the whole conclusion sits in a footnote. Jonathan has spent his career on the other side of documents like these, writing them, reviewing them, and questioning them. He knows which questions to ask and where the answers are usually buried.
"Most of what the Council decides is technical. I have spent my career on the technical side of exactly these questions."
He also represents working people. As a director with the California Association of Professional Employees, he has negotiated for fair conditions, strong labor standards, and sustainable public services. He knows what it costs to keep a public agency staffed and functioning, and what happens to residents when it is not.
The next four years will decide what Burbank looks like for the next forty. Jonathan is running because those are exactly the decisions he has spent his career preparing for, and because the city his three sons are growing up in is worth getting right.
Where He Stands
Burbank's economy runs through the entertainment industry, and production has slowed down. When the studios go quiet, it is not only studio workers who feel it. The corner restaurant feels it too, and so does the family that counts on the next job to make the mortgage. Jonathan will work to keep Burbank the easiest place in the region to film, hire, and open a small business.
The state is going to require Burbank to allow more housing, and that will happen whether the city plans for it or not. So the real question is simple: does Burbank shape that growth, or does someone else shape it for us? Jonathan will finish the city's Specific Plans so that Burbank decides where new housing goes and which neighborhoods stay the way they are.
The price of a home in Burbank is among the highest in the region. That is good news if you bought your house decades ago, but it is a closed door for your children. A city council does not set home prices, but it does decide what gets approved, how long approval takes, and how much it costs to build. Jonathan will use those tools to keep Burbank within reach.
More than half of the households in Burbank rent, and the city does not have a rent stabilization policy of its own. That means renters absorb every increase with little warning, while small property owners deal with rising taxes and insurance. Jonathan will work toward a policy that protects renters and that small owners can still afford.
Police, fire, parks, libraries, and street repair are the services residents use every day, and they are usually the first ones cut when a budget gets tight. Jonathan will go through the city budget line by line so that maintenance we put off today does not turn into a much bigger bill tomorrow.
The pothole on your street almost never goes unfixed because of a vote. It goes unfixed afterward, when the project stalls in planning, in bidding, and in the months when nobody follows up. Jonathan manages this kind of work for Los Angeles County, so he knows the difference between a delay that is real and one that can be pushed.
Endorsements
Endorsement quotes were given in English.
Jonathan has spent years at the bargaining table making sure public agencies stay staffed, safe, and accountable to the people they serve. He brings that same seriousness to everything he takes on.
California Association of Professional Employees Labor Union Organization
I have watched him work through problems that most people would rather hand off. He asks the question everyone else skipped, and he keeps asking until the answer makes sense.
Juan Vivas Operations Manager
Burbank has plenty of people with opinions about infrastructure. Jonathan is one of the few who has actually built it, and it shows in how carefully he talks about what the city can and cannot afford.
Marisol Vega Burbank resident
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Three seats. Three votes.
Make one of them Jonathan.
Together We Can!
Election Day is November 3, 2026.