Santa Clarita City Council District 2
Building a stronger, more responsive city government for the families who call Santa Clarita home.
Brett Haddoak is a software engineer, small business owner, and lifelong Santa Clarita resident running to serve as your representative on the Santa Clarita City Council.
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Meet Brett
Brett Haddoak has called Santa Clarita home his entire life — and his family helped build it.
His grandparents arrived in the late 1960s and chose to raise their five kids in the Santa Clarita Valley. His grandfather went on to pour concrete for Dodger Stadium, operate heavy machinery on the Castaic Lake Dam, and help construct the 5 and 14 freeways. His late father built a career as an aftermarket automotive wholesaler, served the Canyon Country Chamber of Commerce, and was a fixture at community events from Frontier Days to Saugus Speedway. His mother spent nearly 20 years serving Santa Clarita's kids as a school lunch lady. Brett and his wife Rachelle are now raising their daughter here.
Brett is a software engineer with 20 years of experience, currently running a small business that builds software for public schools. He previously worked as a contractor for the Department of Defense and has spent his career solving complex problems with practical tools.
But the work he's most proud of happens outside the office. Since 2015, Brett has volunteered at Bridge to Home, Santa Clarita's homelessness nonprofit, logging over 1,000 hours. He served on the city's Homelessness Task Force and personally built the software that powered Santa Clarita's Shared Housing Pilot program — a concrete example of what it looks like when someone brings both technical skill and genuine commitment to a local problem.
That's the kind of representative Brett wants to be: someone who shows up, does the work, and actually delivers.
What we're fighting for:
Homelessness & Housing
Santa Clarita has a homelessness problem and a housing choice problem, and they're connected. I've spent over 1,000 hours volunteering at Bridge to Home, served on the city's Homelessness Task Force, and personally built the software that powered Santa Clarita's Shared Housing Pilot program. As your council member, I'll push to revive proven programs and build the kind of diverse housing stock that gives every resident the freedom to choose where and how they live, whether that's an apartment, a condo, or a single-family home. When seniors can downsize, families can upsize, and young people can get a first foothold, the whole community benefits.
Responsive, Accountable Leadership
Your council member should be reachable, visible, and answerable to you — not just at election time. I'll hold regular town halls, maintain open office hours, and make sure every resident has a direct line to my office regardless of their schedule. Santa Clarita deserves a representative who treats accountability as a baseline, not a campaign promise.
Healthcare Infrastructure
Santa Clarita has one hospital serving a city of over 230,000 people, and if you live on the east side, you're already too far from it. I'll work to bring an emergency stabilization facility to the east side in partnership with Henry Mayo, and pursue a long-term path to a second full-service hospital with trauma capability. A city this size deserves better, and it's past time we demanded it.
Learn MoreModernizing Local Transit
Traffic isn't going to fix itself, and building more lanes has never solved congestion permanently. I'll advocate for improved Metrolink connections and work to position Santa Clarita for long-term light rail investment, starting with proven transit-oriented development nodes in Old Town Newhall, the Valencia mall site, and the Bermite property. Getting this right means engaging Southern California's regional planning agencies, pursuing federal grant funding, and making sure Santa Clarita gets its fair share of the transportation dollars we're already sending to Sacramento.
Smart Growth & Development
California's housing shortage is real, and Santa Clarita needs to be part of the solution, but how we grow matters as much as whether we grow. I'll champion mixed-use, transit-adjacent development that builds on what's already working in Old Town Newhall, while pushing back on reactive, developer-driven approvals that don't serve residents. Smart growth means building a city where you can live, work, and thrive without getting on the 5.
Protecting Our Open Spaces
Santa Clarita's trails, open spaces, and natural habitats are part of what makes this city worth fighting for. As an avid cyclist, I ride these paths with my family and I understand firsthand what's at stake when development pressure encroaches on the places that make this valley livable. I'll work to preserve and expand our trail network, protect sensitive habitat, and ensure that growth doesn't come at the expense of the open spaces future generations deserve.
Water & Emergency Preparedness
Water security and emergency preparedness aren't flashy issues, but they're foundational ones, and a competent council member needs to understand both. I'll engage seriously with the SCV Water Agency, the Metropolitan Water District, and regional partners to advocate for recycled water expansion, groundwater banking, and long-term supply resilience. On emergency preparedness, I'll push the city to close the gaps that wildfires, earthquakes, and other disasters have exposed. Santa Clarita has lived through both, and we deserve a council that takes that history seriously.
Flock Cameras
Flock cameras, and similar systems from other vendors, present too many serious privacy, legal, technological, and constitutional issues to continue to operate. We should cancel all contracts and remove the cameras, permanently.
Learn MoreA No-Kill Animal Shelter
Santa Clarita doesn't run its own animal shelter. We contract with Los Angeles County, which means a stray dog picked up on Soledad or a surrendered litter ends up at the Castaic Animal Care Center, and a family searching for a lost pet has to drive out of town to look for them. A city of a quarter-million people can do better than that. I'll push for a Santa Clarita shelter built on a no-kill standard, with the foster network, volunteer programs, and low-cost spay and neuter services that make no-kill an operating reality instead of a slogan. The rescue groups in this valley already do this work on donations and their own time. They deserve a city that meets them halfway.
Afterschool Programs & School Partnerships
California is putting real money behind afterschool care through the state's Expanded Learning Opportunities Program, and the city also has a robust offering through the Parks Department. Right now, every one of those programs has its own enrollment process through each district and through the city website. A child attending a Newhall District school on Monday could join a city parks program on Wednesday and a district enrichment program on Friday, but finding and signing up for that combination means visiting multiple websites, creating multiple accounts, and tracking multiple calendars. That's a coordination burden that falls hardest on working parents who have the least time to carry it. I'll push the city to take the lead in building a unified enrollment portal: one website where parents can browse and register for programs across all five districts and city parks, regardless of which school their child attends or which mix of programs works best for their family. I've already built this kind of platform and will donate it as the foundation so the city isn't starting from scratch. The city doesn't run the district programs, but it can be the connective tissue that makes the whole system easier to use.
LGBTQIA+ Liaison at City Hall
Santa Clarita's LGBTQIA+ residents deserve the same access to their city government as everyone else. Right now, there's no dedicated point of contact at City Hall. No one whose job it is to hear concerns about discrimination, connect community members to city services, or make sure LGBTQIA+ residents have a real voice in decisions that affect them. I'll establish a liaison position to change that.
A Youth Commission
Santa Clarita's young people have no formal voice in the decisions that shape their city. No dedicated channel, no seat at the table. I'll establish a Youth Commission to change that. It will give high school students and young residents a structured way to bring their concerns and perspectives to City Hall, where they can inform policy on the issues that affect them most. The people who will live longest with the decisions we make today deserve to be part of making them.
Funding Bridge to Home
Bridge to Home is Santa Clarita's primary homeless services provider, and the city's financial support for it has been erratic and unpredictable. That's no way to run an organization that people depend on for shelter, meals, and a path back to stability. I'll fight to establish a dedicated, annualized budget line item for Bridge to Home so the organization can plan, hire, and serve without wondering each year whether the city has their back. Consistent funding is the bare minimum we owe to the most vulnerable people in our community.
Civic Technology Team at City Hall
New York City built an in-house team of software engineers, designers, and product managers with one job: make interacting with city government work the way it should. Good ideas are worth copying, and Santa Clarita needs the same thing. Right now, city services are scattered across disjointed websites, basic processes require you to show up in person, and finding what you need is harder than it should be. A dedicated civic technology team at City Hall would fix that. Not by outsourcing it to a contractor and hoping for the best, but by keeping the expertise in-house, accountable to residents, and focused on making every interaction with your city government actually work. I have the technical background to build this team and know exactly what we'd be asking them to do.
Endorsements
Brett Haddoak is proud to be endorsed by the following leaders and organizations:
Congressman George Whitesides
"As a small business owner and a dad raising a toddler here in Santa Clarita, Brett understands what families are facing every day. He knows how hard people are working, how much costs have gone up, and how many families are wondering how they'll get ahead. Brett is running because he sees the challenges his neighbors are facing and wants to make sure every family has the opportunity, support, and security they need to thrive. Santa Clarita deserves leaders who understand real life challenges, and Brett brings exactly that kind of experience to this race." — Congressman George Whitesides
Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo
"Brett Haddoak has deep roots in Santa Clarita. For generations, his family has helped build and strengthen this community through hard work, service, and an unwavering commitment to their neighbors. Now Brett has started a family of his own and is ready to bring that legacy into the future. As a new dad, he understands making Santa Clarita special means investing in safe neighborhoods, strong local businesses, healthy families, and opportunities for the next generation. I know he'll lead with the same values that have defined his family for decades, values he’s passing on to his daughter, working to ensure that years from now, families like his will still be proud to call Santa Clarita home." — Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo
Former Assemblywoman Christy Smith
"Brett Haddoak is the new generation of leadership Santa Clarita needs. His focus on the future of the entire community, from healthcare to housing and jobs, is what we deserve from our leadership. I’m happy to endorse his candidacy for City Council." — Former Assemblywoman Christy Smith
Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin
Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin represents California's 42nd District, covering communities across Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. A former systems engineer and two-term Mayor of Thousand Oaks, she has served in the Assembly since 2014.
Angeles Chapter Sierra Club
Sierra Club is the largest grassroots environmental organization in the United States, working to protect the planet and advance environmental justice.
Moms Demand
Moms Demand is a national organization of mothers and families working to end gun violence.
Los Angeles Federation of Labor
Representing more than 800,000 union workers across Los Angeles County, the LA County Fed is the backbone of the labor movement in Southern California.
Los Angeles / Orange County Building and Construction Trades Council
The Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council represents 160,000 skilled union construction workers across 48 local unions — the people who build Southern California's transportation systems, schools, hospitals, and housing.
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 11
IBEW Local 11 represents thousands of inside wiremen and electrical workers across Los Angeles County, building and maintaining the infrastructure that powers the region.
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 40
IBEW Local 40 represents the electrical workers who have powered Hollywood's film and television industry for more than a century, from studio production to the infrastructure that keeps cameras rolling across Los Angeles.
Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 761
Plumbers & Fitters Local 761 is a union of plumbers, pipefitters, and welders who have installed the piping systems in schools, hospitals, and homes across the region from Lancaster to Redondo Beach since 1922.
Iron Workers Local 416
Ironworkers Local 416 represents the reinforcing ironworkers who place and tie the rebar inside Southern California's bridges, hospitals, schools, and high-rises, the workers whose unseen labor holds the region's built environment together.
Iron Workers Local 433
Ironworkers Local 433 represents more than 5,200 bridge, structural, and ornamental ironworkers across Los Angeles and Southern Nevada, the craftworkers who erect the steel frames of Southern California's skyline, bridges, and stadiums.
Service Employees International Union Local 721
SEIU Local 721 is the largest public sector union in Southern California, representing more than 100,000 workers in hospitals, courts, libraries, sanitation, water treatment, parks, and public health across Los Angeles and surrounding counties.
LiUNA Local 300
Laborers' Local 300 is a Union representing construction laborer, maintenance workers, and plant workers throughout the Los Angeles County.
Santa Clarita Valley Democrats
The Santa Clarita Valley Democrats is a local Democratic organization dedicated to promoting progressive values and representing the interests of the Santa Clarita Valley community.
Los Angeles County Democratic Party
The Los Angeles County Democratic Party is the largest county-level Democratic organization in the United States, representing over 3 million members.
California Democratic Party
The California Democratic Party is the largest state-level Democratic organization in the United States, representing over 10 million members.
VoteUp Advocacy Coalition
VoteUp Advocacy Coalition is a grassroots organization dedicated to promoting voter engagement and protecting voting rights in California.
DeFlockSCV
Deflock SCV is a Santa Clarita-based campaign challenging the expansion of mass surveillance in our city and surrounding communities.
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