Brock Goleman, Long Beach City Council District 1 candidate, 2026 primary election questionnaire – Press Telegram

Ahead of the June primary election, the Southern California News Group compiled a list of questions to pose to the candidates who wish to represent you. You can find the full questionnaire below. Questionnaires may have been edited for spelling, grammar, length and, in some instances, to remove hate speech and offensive language.

Name: Brock Goleman

Current job title: Trucking

Age: 43

Incumbent: No

Other political positions held: Long Beach Police Department Citizens Advisory Committee (Member); U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary (Member)

City where you reside: Long Beach

Campaign website or social media: GolemanforLBCityCouncil.com

One of the main issues local leaders are grappling with is Long Beach’s current and long-term fiscal position. With major budgetary concerns on the horizon, explain your top priorities for Long Beach’s financial future and plans to achieve them. (Please answer in 200 words or less.)

Starting day one, we must protect revenue to rise above costs. To reclaim many millions, I will reign in “shopping spree” spending, agendize mandated performance milestones for financed strategies, re-establish reserve set-asides, place more emphasis on investment in local economic and city means of production and other initiatives to expand money flow and build GDP in our city economy rather than increase taxes.

Additionally, I will protect and invest in core-competency asset performance, ports, tourism and key industries. I will recommend to the city management system upgrades like centralized data that helped turn around San Jose recently in its financial emergency.

I will recommend a portfolio manager, like university endowments, who manages tens of billions, with the significant expertise to guide our assets to top performance to reclaim lost millions and replace budgetary revenue reliance on dwindling oil money supplies.

Local consumer confidence in spending and business dollars is still down due to crime, uncleanliness and disorder. As a result, police dollars are also very high. Investing in successful crime prevention and peacekeeping will increase foot traffic and lower police spending. We must help inflation land. Let’s make Long Beach excellent financially.

Long Beach residents have been sounding the alarm about the presence of federal immigration enforcement agents and operations in the city. Where do you stand on ICE/CBP actions, and how to plan to address residents’ concerns about this issue? (Please answer in 200 words or less.)

Representing the people, I plan to keep Long Beach a humanitarian and refreshing place where everyone feels safe, healthy, protected and at home to live their lives free and happy regardless of citizen status.

I seek checks and balances, but also diplomacy with the federal government, not to inspire unnecessary extremism from either side, retaliation or compromises to our essential services like the health department.

It’s common sense, ICE is a primitive operation that sets law enforcement back 70 years to the days before body cameras and causes fear for those who can see visions of a building competency for government overreach. The detractors are reasonably incensed.

Locally, our job is to protect people and peace. The federal government has its own area of expertise. So do we.

I seek unity and respect for roles and responsibilities. I plan to define our role as protectors of all people with equal service, while not allowing the federal government to cast blame for its inefficiencies. Meanwhile, commend our city for following the best municipal function of humanitarian care to the fullest. Meanwhile, I will work on city finances to be a strong local economy that relies less on federal funds.

Homelessness and affordable housing continue to be a top issue for Long Beach residents. What is your position on the city’s current efforts to reduce homelessness and increase affordable housing availability, and how do you plan to improve these efforts? (Please answer in 200 words or less.)

I seek a housing-first policy. It is a basic right like health care, education and police/fire protection. As the population grows and the city fights inequity, we will need to create spaces of housing for our fellow citizens.

I plan to first improve our existing shelters to include expanded capacity and nearby beds, so they can absorb economic shocks that increase homelessness. I will then follow city planning best practices to incorporate model placement of low-income housing, hopefully near transit and related jobs and services. Importantly, I will improve the fine print on any plans to include absolute cleanliness and safety in these places of security. We will add a responsive new core strategy that aims to help move people from the streets to stable housing, with related job incentives on the way.

Finally, I will seek to improve all aspects of a city’s excellence, like economic opportunity, education, productive capacity and quality of life, to achieve impressive, low levels of homelessness and inequity for an award-winning city.

What is the biggest issue your district specifically faces, and how do you plan to address it, if elected? (Please answer in 200 words or less.)

We are in a financial emergency, pockets of our neighborhoods are experiencing income inequity, the cost of living is high and homelessness and crime are unsightly and disturbing the peace, among many other personal issues you experience yet to be addressed.

Yet we have been dipping into a wide variety of unrelated, siloed initiatives and spending uncontrollably without really focusing on the municipal fundamental strengths and weaknesses that matter most for city excellence and happiness.

Representing you, I will be preventative and anticipatory. From day one, if elected, my office will immediately make agenda items to resolve issues. We will always be available for a response and seeking your ideas to recommend to the city. I will work tirelessly to comb through our operations to ensure, representing you, the city is up to standard, focusing on these issues through all available powers and moving past excellence.

What experience do you bring to the table for this role? (Please limit your answer to 200 words or less.)

Working in the trucking industry and owning my own business, I understand how economic tides can influence survival for better or worse.

Through an educational background in business with a minor in government, paired with a plentiful list of paid and volunteer public experience, I have come to recognize firsthand the challenges and opportunities facing the people of Long Beach and my district. Meanwhile, through meeting a wide variety of people and experiences, I have noticed strong enthusiasm for taking our city to the next level in terms of performance, quality of life, happiness, community and success.

Therefore, I want to represent you and our community by encouraging ideas to bring to the city and ensuring we use our district voice and opportunity to better, further and strengthen the options, protections, comforts and future for our people on a personal, district and city-wide level and beyond. We are poised to be better than model cities. There is no stopping our excellence.

Stay refreshed. Vote Goleman.