Incumbent Rep. Joe Molinar and Cynthia Boyar Trejo are in the Dec. 14 runoff for City Council District 4. Molinar received 8,111 votes, 38% while Trejo received 5,927 votes, 28% in the Nov. 5 General Election.
District 4 covers most of Northeast El Paso.
City representatives earn $63,038 annually and serve four-year terms.
The El Paso Times sent questionnaires to candidates for the 2024 General Election. The answers submitted by the candidates for El Paso City Council, District 4 are below.
Joe Molinar
El Paso City Council, District 4 candidate: Joe Molinar
Cynthia Trejo
El Paso City Council, District 4 candidate: Cynthia Trejo
Please describe your personal and professional background.
Molinar: On Tuesday, January 5, 2021, I was sworn into the Office District 4 City Representative. 1978 – A proud Enlisted member of the United States Marine Corps; 1985 – A proud member of the El Paso Police Department for 22+ years, retiring as a police lieutenant; 1995 – PTA volunteer and past PTA president; 2007 – Socorro ISD employee; 2012 – President of the Castner Heights Neighborhood Association (CHNA); 2012 – Volunteer to enact Castner Range as a National Monument; 2014 – Board member for the Northeast Business Alliance (NEBA); 2015 – Graduate of the City of El Paso’s 9th Neighborhood Leadership Academy (NLA); 2015 – Graduate of the City of El Paso’s 1st Advanced Neighborhood Leadership Academy; 2019 – Proud member of the VFW Post 8919 Auxiliary; 2020 – Voted by a majority of District 4 voters as their District 4 City Representative; 2021 – Proud member of the American Legion – Post 74; 2021 – Appointed by Mayor Oscar Leeser as a City of El Paso Employees’ Retirement trustee; 2023 – Voted by my City Representative colleagues as the Alternate Mayor Pro Tempore; 2023 – Appointed by Mayor Oscar Leeser as the Texas Municipal League (TML) designee; 2023 – Appointed by Mayor Oscar Leeser to serve as a Trustee on the Financial Oversight and Audit Committee (FOAC); 2023 – Appointed by TML to serve as a director-at-large; 2023 – Elected as the VFW District 10 Auxiliary Conductor; Volunteer for the Flags Across America at the Old Glory Memorial; Volunteer for the Flags Across America Veterans Day Parades; Volunteer at various local school science fairs.
Trejo: I am the Founder and CEO of a leading training and consulting company. Our work empowers individuals and organizations through leadership training and development, executive coaching,…
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