Council · Ward 2, Position A candidate · City of Hillsboro · November 3, 2026
Karim Delgado
Business owner, former teacher and Marine veteran.
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As published in their pamphlet statement and campaign site.
In their words
Said: Hillsboro’s growth should serve the people who live here, not just the corporations that profit here.
Pamphlet p. 17
Candidate statement · November 2026 edition; extracted September 21, 2026
Washington County voters’ pamphlet · PDF page 17 ↗Verbatim opening of the candidate's own statement; publication by the county does not verify the claims.
The verbatim opening of their voters’ pamphlet statement, the same rule for every candidate. We chose nothing.
What they say they would do
Our summary of their platform, in our wordsWants public incentives tied to greater public benefits and more direct support for immigrant residents.
- Fund legal and emergency aid and establish a Human Rights Office.
- Enforce local sanctuary protections.
- Hold weekly town halls and virtual office hours.
Our reading
Our interpretation, not their wordsHe would attach wage, benefit and housing conditions to every subsidy and fund new services; signed data-center contracts cannot be rewritten by the city alone, and the cost of a Human Rights Office and legal aid is not given.
Where they stand
Rent and homes
Renter protections- What
- Said: Would push mandatory notice before rent increases, a right to counsel in eviction court, anti-displacement protections and community land trusts, and require public support for business to produce housing people can afford.
- How
- Said: Attach housing-affordability requirements to Enterprise Zone and SIP subsidy deals, alongside city rules on rent-increase notice, eviction counsel and anti-displacement protections.
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Camps, crime and who responds
Crisis teams, legal aid- What
- Said: Would fully fund mobile crisis response so counselors, not only police, answer mental-health calls, fund legal and emergency aid, enforce the sanctuary ordinance and establish a Human Rights Office.
- How
- Said: Fund mobile crisis response adequately (he contrasts it with the $70 million police-headquarters bond spend), finish the tabled Human Rights Office, and write judicial-warrant-only rules into every city policy.
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Your bills and taxes
No blank-check subsidies- What
- Said: Opposes corporate tax holidays that do not deliver housing, living wages or community benefit; would raise the community-service and school-support fees on new data-center agreements and verify job commitments.
- How
- Said: Raise the Community Service Fee ceiling and move the school-support fee from the 15% floor toward 30% on new abatements; require community-benefit analysis, job and wage disclosure and a council briefing before any subsidy; claw back unmet commitments.
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
Streets, buses and air
Polluters held accountable- What
- Said: Would make environmental compliance a condition of future subsidy agreements, hold industrial polluters accountable and invest in the city’s transit infrastructure.
- How
- Said: Environmental-compliance conditions in all future subsidy agreements, capital investment in transit, and a study of a data-center electricity class within the city’s franchise fee.
- Measured by
- Not in their sources
The choices this office faces
Every candidate in this race is asked the same 6 questions. Karim Delgado is on record on 5, with 1 still open. A question without an answer is a research gap, not a position.
No answer we could findApprove Sky Harbour’s seven private-jet hangars at the airport when it refiles?
Nothing on this exact choice in the sources we reviewed.
Adopt the new data-center zoning limits on October 6 and extend the 120-day moratorium past November 24?
Said: Testified July 27, 2026 in support of the moratorium, arguing Hillsboro is overly dependent on one industry; on June 23 told the council its enterprise-zone criteria produced massive tax breaks with minimal job creation.
Raise the fees data centers pay on abated taxes and set stricter terms on new abatements?
Said: Would move the school support fee from the 15% floor toward 30% and raise the community service fee ceiling on new abatements, require job and wage disclosure and a council briefing before any subsidy, and claw back unmet commitments.
Raise the transportation utility fee to $11.64 a month and sewer and stormwater rates about 5% from January 1?
Said: Would have the city study a data-center electricity class within its franchise fee so the load it zoned pays; the transportation-fee and sewer proposals are unsaid.
On the topic; the exact choice is unsaid.
Fund a Human Rights Office ($321,000–$553,000 a year) and more legal aid on top of the sanctuary ordinance?
Said: Would fund legal and emergency aid, enforce the sanctuary law and establish a Human Rights Office, finishing what he says the council tabled in January 2026.
Add local tenant protections and a downtown anti-displacement strategy, or focus on loosening rules to build more?
Said: Would push mandatory notice before rent increases, a right to counsel in eviction court, anti-displacement protections and community land trusts, and tie public support for business to housing people can afford.
A question the evidence leaves open
What enforceable public benefits would you require for incentives, and what would the new office cost?
Sources (2)
- Washington County voters’ pamphlet · PDF page 17Candidate statement · November 2026 edition; reviewed September 18, 2026Written by the candidate or campaign. Publication by the county does not verify the claims.
- Delgado · platform, all nine positionsCandidate statement · Website reviewed September 21, 2026Campaign position. Claimed results and numerical premises have not automatically been independently verified.