One candidate emphasizes schools, employers and family stability, offering childcare and school-board experience. The other proposes specific changes: tighter conditions on corporate incentives, expanded immigrant services and weekly town halls. Ask what each would cost and which council votes would change.
Draft; human review pending.
Key
Said
A campaign statement, in our summary or their words.
Voted
A recorded Council roll call.
— Not found
Not in the sources we reviewed. A research gap, not a position.
Wants public incentives tied to greater public benefits and more direct support for immigrant residents.
Would require rent-increase notice, eviction right to counsel and community land trusts.
Would fund mobile crisis response, legal aid and a Human Rights Office.
Opposes corporate tax holidays without housing, living wages or community benefit.
Would tie subsidies to environmental compliance and invest in transit.
Summaries are our one-line readings of what each candidate says. Issue lines are short forms of the positions in each brief, AI-drafted and awaiting human review; “—” means not found in the sources we reviewed.
Four votes that split this Council
No candidate in this race sits on Council today.
— Not foundNo featured votes are selected for this race yet.
Candidate briefs, A–Z
Council · Ward 2, Position A candidate · City of Hillsboro · November 3, 2026
Ivette Pantoja
Preschool owner and former Hillsboro school-board chair.
Photo: Candidate-submitted photo · 2026 Washington County voters’ pamphlet
In their words
Said: Ivette is the proud daughter of Mexican immigrants and the granddaughter of migrant farmworkers.
Pamphlet p. 17
Candidate statement · November 2026 edition; extracted September 21, 2026
Verbatim opening of the candidate's own statement; publication by the county does not verify the claims. Skips the heading “Born and Raised in Hillsboro”.
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 words
Emphasizes affordable homes, employment, small-business opportunity and safety for families.
Support employers and jobs that benefit working households.
Expand access to affordable homes.
Protect residents’ safety and dignity.
Our reading
Our interpretation, not their words
Family stability
Workforce development
She frames housing and jobs through school-board and childcare experience; her site describes goals such as missing-middle housing and apprenticeships without the city funding or rule changes attached.
Said: Treats affordable homes as the backbone of community and wants housing options expanded, from missing-middle to multifamily, matched to neighborhood infrastructure to reduce family displacement.
How
— Not in their sources
Measured by
— Not in their sources
Camps, crime and who responds
— Not foundNot found in the sources we reviewed. That is a research gap, not a position.
Your bills and taxes
Jobs and apprenticeships
What
Said: Wants employers and jobs that let working-class families and small businesses thrive, with apprenticeships and career pathways aligned to local employers.
How
Said: Align education from early childhood through career-technical programs with local employer needs and expand apprenticeships in high-growth sectors such as advanced manufacturing.
Measured by
— Not in their sources
Streets, buses and air
— Not foundNot found in the sources we reviewed. That is a research gap, not a position.
The choices this office faces
Every candidate in this race is asked the same 6 questions. Ivette Pantoja is on record on 1, with 5 still open. A question without an answer is a research gap, not a position.
No answer we could find
Adopt the new data-center zoning limits on October 6 and extend the 120-day moratorium past November 24?
Nothing on this exact choice in the sources we reviewed.
Raise the fees data centers pay on abated taxes and set stricter terms on new abatements?
Nothing on this exact choice in the sources we reviewed.
Raise the transportation utility fee to $11.64 a month and sewer and stormwater rates about 5% from January 1?
Nothing on this exact choice in the sources we reviewed.
Fund a Human Rights Office ($321,000–$553,000 a year) and more legal aid on top of the sanctuary ordinance?
Nothing on this exact choice in the sources we reviewed.
Approve Sky Harbour’s seven private-jet hangars at the airport when it refiles?
Nothing on this exact choice in the sources we reviewed.
On record
Add local tenant protections and a downtown anti-displacement strategy, or focus on loosening rules to build more?
Said: Wants balanced development from missing-middle to multifamily housing matched to neighborhood infrastructure so residents are not priced out; tenant protections and the downtown strategy are unsaid.
Which city housing and childcare measures would you prioritize, and how would you fund them?
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.
Pantoja · prioritiesCandidate statement · Website reviewed September 21, 2026Campaign position. Claimed results and numerical premises have not automatically been independently verified.
Council · Ward 2, Position A candidate · City of Hillsboro · November 3, 2026
Karim Delgado
Business owner, former teacher and Marine veteran.
Photo: Candidate-submitted photo · 2026 Washington County voters’ pamphlet
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
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 words
Wants 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 words
Corporate accountability
Immigrant protection
He 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.
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 find
Approve Sky Harbour’s seven private-jet hangars at the airport when it refiles?
Nothing on this exact choice in the sources we reviewed.
On record
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.
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.
