Special to the Reporter

Longtime Mercer Island resident and city councilmember Ted Weinberg announced he is running for re-election to Mercer Island City Council Position 4 in the November 2025 general election.

During his service on the MI City Council since January 2022, Weinberg has helped the city work through some complicated and controversial issues like authoring and passing the city’s first climate action plan, passing balanced budgets, passing and implementing a levy to rebuild all the island’s playgrounds, and doubling the city’s efforts to modernize its water and sewer utility infrastructure.

He has also worked for eight years leading the project management practice for the information technology department at the city of Seattle, ensuring that all of Seattle‘s 60 IT projects receive the resources and oversight they need to deliver value to the public. Notable recent successes include upgrades to Seattle’s 911 and patrol car video systems, a new municipal court information system, and budget management systems for multiple departments.

Leveraging his 35 years experience in both the public and private sectors, his degrees in business and architecture, and his skills at diplomatically crafting efficient solutions serving the needs of diverse stakeholder groups, Weinberg is ideally suited to help the Mercer Island City Council face the critical issues of the current decade. Those issues include finishing preparations for the arrival of light rail, modernizing our electrical grid to be able to charge EVs and run heat pumps in every home, establishing a new operating equilibrium for Youth and Family Services in the post-pandemic world, designing and building the city’s new Public Safety and Maintenance building, and continuing the proactive modernization of the city’s water and sewer infrastructure.

Weinberg is endorsed by all four of Mercer Island’s state and county representatives. He’s also endorsed by MI City Councilmembers Craig Reynolds and Wendy Weiker; MI School Boardmembers Jody Lee and Maggie Tai Tucker; and Planning Commissioners Kate Akyuz and Anthony Perez. He’s also endorsed by former legislators Judy Clibborn and Fred Jarrett; former MI mayors Elliott Newman and Alan Merkle; former city councilmembers Jane Meyer Brahm and Linda Jackman; former school boardmembers David D’Souza and Pat Braman; former Chamber of Commerce president Terry Moreman; and many others.