# Adelanto City Council Compare records and positions simply between Jayshawn Johnson, Angelo Meza, or Amanda Uptergrove for Adelanto City Council at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of two open seats on Adelanto's City Council. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. A separately elected Mayor also sits on the council. All four Council seats are elected citywide, not by district. Terms are four years and staggered. The other two seats were last up in November 2024. Daniel Ramos and Stevevonna Evans currently hold those seats. Neither is on this ballot. - Jurisdiction: City of Adelanto - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Seats: 2 - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/adelanto-council - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: August 31, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 88 out of 100 (Strong), across 9 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Jayshawn Johnson** — Appointed Planning Commissioner - **Angelo Meza** — Councilmember / Manufacturing Supervisor · Incumbent - **Amanda Uptergrove** — Councilmember / Business Owner · Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbents Amanda Uptergrove and Angelo Meza face challenger Jayshawn Johnson for Adelanto's two open, at-large City Council seats on the November 3, 2026 ballot. Whoever gets the two highest vote totals wins outright -- there is no primary or runoff. This person would hold one of two open seats on Adelanto's City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside the separately elected Mayor. All four Council seats are elected citywide rather than by district. Each has a staggered 4-year term. The other two seats, currently held by Daniel Ramos and Stevevonna Evans, were last up in November 2024. They are not on this ballot. Uptergrove and Meza are both seeking another term after first winning their seats in 2022. Johnson is a sitting Planning Commissioner. They previously served on that same commission until being removed from it in February 2020. That came a week after they voted against expanding the GEO Group-run Adelanto ICE Processing Center. ## Amanda Uptergrove Amanda Uptergrove is a sitting Adelanto City Councilmember first elected in 2022, now seeking a second term. Their filed ballot designation is "Councilmember / Business Owner." Their campaign-finance committee has filed only short-form FPPC Form 470s (used when a campaign raises or spends under $2,000), in February 2024 and July 2025 -- none dated to the 2026 cycle specifically. **Strengths:** Four years of sitting council experience since their 2022 election. A business owner background distinct from their two rivals' occupations. **Trade-offs:** No independent news coverage of their council record was found. Their most recent financial disclosure predates this specific election cycle. **Keep in mind:** Filing the short form Form 470, rather than an itemized Form 460, is consistent with a small-dollar or self-funded campaign. Which one can't be confirmed independently. ## Angelo Meza Angelo Meza is a sitting Adelanto City Councilmember first elected in 2022, now seeking a second term. Their filed ballot designation is "Councilmember / Manufacturing Supervisor." Their 2026 campaign committee has no financial disclosures filed yet; separately, their 2022 committee's three disclosure reports covering July-December 2022 were filed nearly three years late, in September 2025. **Strengths:** Four years of sitting council experience since their 2022 election. A manufacturing supervisor occupation distinct from either rival's. **Trade-offs:** No independent news coverage of their council record was found. Nothing is filed yet this cycle. Their prior cycle's reports were filed nearly three years late, a compliance gap, stated plainly. **Keep in mind:** A late filing from a past cycle doesn't by itself say anything about this cycle's campaign. But it is the kind of detail worth asking a candidate about directly. ## Jayshawn Johnson Jayshawn Johnson is a candidate for Adelanto City Council whose filed ballot designation, "Appointed Planning Commissioner," is independently confirmed by the city's own Planning Commission roster: they are a current sitting commissioner. They previously served on that same commission until being removed in February 2020, a week after voting against a proposal to expand the GEO Group-run Adelanto ICE Processing Center's capacity -- reported independently and on the same day by both the Desert Sun and the Victorville Daily Press. Eight months later, per the Daily Press, they ran for office as a "former planning commissioner" seeking to be a "catalyst for reform." No committee or financial disclosure was found under their name in this pass. **Strengths:** Sitting Planning Commission experience, confirmed by the city's roster. An independently reported, contested vote opposing the GEO detention center expansion, not a self-reported title. **Trade-offs:** No campaign committee or financial disclosure was found for them. Coverage is limited to two 2020 headlines with unreachable article text. Fuller context of their removal isn't available. **Keep in mind:** Being removed from an appointed commission over a specific vote is a genuinely double-edged fact. It reads as either a mark against them or as evidence of independence. That depends on how a voter weighs the 2020 GEO expansion vote itself. ## Sources 1. [San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- "Offices Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election" (the same document as sb-offices-up-2026, a different section): the "City of Adelanto" section lists exactly two offices, each a 4-year term -- Mayor (1 seat) and Member, City Council (2 seats, no district number given).](https://uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov/ROV/Elections/2026/1103/Report_OfficesUpForElection.pdf) 2. [San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- statewide "Report_CandidateList.pdf" candidate-filing report (the same document as sb-candidate-list-2026, a different section): the "City of Adelanto" section (pp. 114-117 of 249) names three qualified 2026 Mayor candidates -- Ronald Beard, Gabriel Reyes (flagged Incumbent), Stevevonna Evans -- and three qualified City Council candidates for two at-large seats -- Amanda Uptergrove (Incumbent), Angelo Meza (Incumbent), Jayshawn Johnson -- each with their filed ballot designation, "Last Updated: 8/28/2026."](https://uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov/ROV/Elections/2026/1103/Report_CandidateList.pdf) 3. [City of Adelanto -- City Clerk's elections page: states two seats are up in November 2026 (Mayor, 1 seat; City Council Members, 2 seats; both 4-year terms), the nomination period (July 13-August 7, 2026, extendable to August 12 if an eligible incumbent doesn't file), and names "Mayor Gabriel Reyes and Council Members Angelo Meza and Amanda Uptergrove" as the three sitting officials eligible to run again.](https://adelantoca.gov/city_hall/city_clerk/elections/index.php) 4. [City of Adelanto -- City Hall leadership roster: names the sitting five-member council -- Mayor Gabriel Reyes, Mayor Pro Tem Daniel Ramos (re-elected Nov. 5, 2024, 3,181 votes), and Council Members Amanda Uptergrove, Angelo Meza, and Stevevonna Evans (re-elected Nov. 5, 2024, 2,801 votes) -- confirming Ramos's and Evans's own council seats are on the OTHER half of the staggered cycle (next up 2028), not this ballot.](https://adelantoca.gov/city_hall/index.php) 5. [Wikipedia -- "Adelanto, California": incorporated as a city Dec. 22, 1970; became a charter city in November 1992; names Gabriel Reyes as the sitting Mayor, independently corroborating the city's own roster.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelanto,_California) 6. [City of Adelanto's own NetFile-hosted public campaign-finance portal (aid=ADE, distinct from the county-wide aid=SBD portal used elsewhere in this file), queried by name via its own QuickNameSearch/filings-by-filer API for all six 2026 candidates: Gabriel Reyes's "Committee to Elect Gabriel Reyes - Mayor of Adelanto 2026" has filed Form 460s continuously since a 2018 Form 410, most recently 2026-08-24 for the Jan-June 2026 period (the portal's own downloadable copy of that filing is itself redacted -- every page's text layer reads literally "REDACTED," so no dollar total could be read); Stevevonna Evans has a "Committee to Elect Stevevonna Evans - Mayor 2022" (opened via a 2018 Form 410, filed through a 2022 Form 501) and a separate, fresh "...Mayor of Adelanto 2026" committee with zero filings yet; Ronald Beard has no committee under aid=ADE or aid=SBD; Amanda Uptergrove has filed only short-form FPPC 470s (Feb. 2024, July 2025), none specific to 2026; Angelo Meza's 2026 committee has zero filings, and his 2022 committee's three Jul-Dec 2022 Form 460 reports were filed nearly three years late, in Sept. 2025; Jayshawn Johnson has no committee under either agency ID.](https://public.netfile.com/pub2/?aid=ADE) 7. [City of Adelanto -- Planning Commission roster page: lists Jayshawn Johnson as a current sitting Planning Commissioner (alongside Chair Chris Waggener, Vice-Chair Ricardo Rubalcava, Paul A. Casilla, and Terry Delgado), independently corroborating his filed ballot designation "Appointed Planning Commissioner."](https://adelantoca.gov/city_hall/boards_commissions/planning_commission.php) 8. [Victorville Daily Press and The Desert Sun -- both independently reported, on the same day, that Adelanto Planning Commissioner Jayshawn Johnson was removed from the commission a week after voting against a proposal to expand the GEO Group-run Adelanto ICE Processing Center's capacity ("Adelanto planning commissioner removed a week after opposing GEO expansion" / "Adelanto planner who voted against detention center expansion ousted from commission"); headlines, outlets, and publication date confirmed via Google News RSS's own structured and metadata -- vvdailypress.com and desertsun.com are not fetchable directly in this pass, so the article bodies could not be read beyond what each headline itself states.](https://www.vvdailypress.com) 9. [Victorville Daily Press -- "Former planning commissioner JayShawn Johnson wants to be 'catalyst for reform' in Adelanto": headline and date confirmed via Google News RSS's own structured metadata; the article body itself could not be read (vvdailypress.com is not fetchable directly in this pass).](https://www.vvdailypress.com) ## The rest of the ballot Adelanto City Council is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. Vote or Else builds the full list for any California address and breaks down each contest the way this page does, with no account and without storing the address: https://voteorelse.com/ ## How to cite this page Vote or Else, "Adelanto City Council — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/adelanto-council (sources last retrieved August 31, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. 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