# Apple Valley Town Council, District 3 Compare records and positions simply between Kari Lynn Leon or Ted Bohanon for Apple Valley Town Council, District 3 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would represent Town Council District 3. Apple Valley has four council districts. They vote on town laws, the budget, and land use. Apple Valley is a High Desert town. The term is four years. Apple Valley elects Council members by district, not at-large. Its Mayor is elected separately, town-wide, to a two-year term. That Mayor's race is also on this November's ballot. - Jurisdiction: City of Apple Valley - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/apple-valley-council-3 - 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: September 7, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 92 out of 100 (Very strong), across 6 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Kari Lynn Leon** — Business Owner / Councilwoman · Incumbent - **Ted Bohanon** — Retired A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Kari Lynn Leon, first elected in 2022, faces challenger Ted Bohanon for Apple Valley Town Council District 3 on the November 3, 2026 ballot. Whichever candidate gets the most votes wins outright -- there is no primary or runoff. This person would represent Town Council District 3, one of Apple Valley's four council districts. They vote on town ordinances, the budget, and land use for this High Desert town. The term is four years. Apple Valley elects its Council members by district, not at-large; its Mayor is separately, directly elected town-wide to a 2-year term (also on this November's ballot as its own race). Leon, elected November 8, 2022, has a real-estate and property-management background in title/escrow management and is President of the High Desert Association of Realtors, per the town's own biography. Bohanon's filed ballot designation is "Retired"; no independent reporting or campaign material about their background or platform was found in this research pass. ## Kari Lynn Leon Kari Lynn Leon is the incumbent District 3 councilmember, elected November 8, 2022 to a 4-year term. They have a background in real estate and property management, specifically title and escrow management, and serves as President of the High Desert Association of Realtors and a delegate to the Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District, per the town's own biography. They have received the Apple Valley Chamber of Commerce's "Take Pride in Apple Valley" award. Their filed ballot designation is "Business Owner / Councilwoman." **Strengths:** One term already served; a real-estate/title-industry background plus a regional air-quality board role, distinct from their two council colleagues' other backgrounds. **Trade-offs:** No independent reporting on their council record was found; financial info could not be retrieved for this race (see note below). **Keep in mind:** Their real-estate leadership role (High Desert Association of Realtors) is worth noting as context on land-use votes, not a claim of conflict -- none was found. ## Ted Bohanon Ted Bohanon is a challenger for Apple Valley Town Council District 3. Their filed ballot designation is "Retired." They hold no town office and have no page on the town's own website; no independent reporting or campaign material about their background or platform was found in this research pass. A public campaign-finance search under their name turned up only a dormant record from 2010-2012, unrelated to this race (see note below). **Strengths:** None could be documented in this research pass. **Trade-offs:** No current biographical or platform info beyond their filed designation was found anywhere in this pass -- a documented gap, not an oversight. **Keep in mind:** Their only public campaign-finance record on file predates this race by over a decade (2010-2012) and appears unrelated to this candidacy -- not evidence of anything about this run, just noted for completeness. ## Sources 1. [San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- statewide "Report_CandidateList.pdf" candidate-filing report linked from the county's own November 3, 2026 candidates page: within the San Bernardino County section, only Area B carries any candidates (Rita Fernandez-Loof, Miki R. Inbody, Kimberly L. Watson); Areas A and D, both confirmed expiring this cycle by the county's own Offices Up for Election document, have no candidates anywhere in the report and will not appear on the November ballot](https://uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov/ROV/Elections/2026/1103/Report_CandidateList.pdf) 2. [San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- "Offices Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election": lists County Board of Education Areas A, B, and D (under the School category) as the county's only expiring-term seats this cycle -- no Board of Supervisors, row office, or Superior Court seat appears anywhere in the 11-page document](https://uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov/ROV/Elections/2026/1103/Report_OfficesUpForElection.pdf) 3. [Town of Apple Valley -- "Meet Your Government" page: "Apple Valley has an elected Mayor and four Council districts." "The Mayor serves for two years" and "Council members serve for four years." "Each December, the Council picks one member to be Mayor Pro Tem" -- the separate, rotating position, distinct from the directly elected Mayor. Lists the sitting council: Mayor Scott Nassif, and Council Members Art Bishop, Larry Cusack (Mayor Pro Tem), Curt Emick, and Kari Leon](https://applevalley.org/government/meet-your-government/) 4. [Town of Apple Valley -- Council Member Info page for District 3's Kari Leon: a real estate and property-management/title-escrow background; "Elected November 8, 2022, for a 4-year term"; President of the High Desert Association of Realtors and recipient of the Apple Valley Chamber's "Take Pride in Apple Valley" award](https://applevalley.org/council-member-info/kari-leon/) 5. [San Bernardino County -- NetFile public campaign-finance portal (aid=SBD), queried directly by name for all seven 2026 Apple Valley candidates: six return no filer at all; the seventh, Ted Bohanon, has a record, but its only filings are an FPPC Form 501 candidate-intention statement and two Form 470 short-form disclosures, all dated 2010-2012 -- nothing from the 2026 cycle](https://public.netfile.com/pub2/?aid=SBD) 6. [Town of Apple Valley's own city-specific NetFile-hosted public campaign-finance portal (agency code TAV, netfile.com/public/TAV), linked directly from the Town's own "Fair Political Practices Commission Reporting/Forms" page (applevalley.org/government/fair-political-practices-commission-reporting-forms) as the venue for "current Committee Filings" -- distinct from San Bernardino County's shared countywide portal (aid=SBD) that an earlier pass in this dataset had queried and found nothing current for any of these seven candidates. Queried directly for all seven 2026 candidates via the TAV portal's own name-search and transaction-search tools. David Dencker, Robert Andrew Lucero, Ted Bohanon, and Matthew Rutledge have no filer of any kind registered with this portal. Scott Nassif's committee (Scott Nassif for Mayor 2026) formed via Form 410 on July 15, 2026 and has since filed two Form 497 late-contribution reports (September 1 and 3, 2026) itemizing five contributions totaling $9,616.18 -- $3,000 from Nassif himself, $1,000 each from Jonathan Hove and Larry Cusack plus a second $3,616.18 from Cusack, and $1,000 from Conco Construction Engineer, Design & Building Inc -- but no semi-annual Form 460 has been filed yet, so no committee-wide contribution/spending total or cash balance is available. Kari Lynn Leon's committee (active since her first run in 2018) filed a semi-annual Form 460 for January-June 2026 on July 25, 2026; itemized transactions for that period include a $500 contribution from the Edison International Civic Action Committee and a $1,000 contribution from Larry Cusack, plus several hundred dollars apiece paid to a cluster of print voter-guide publishers (Cal Voter Newsletter, Election Digest, the Voter Guide, the Senior Advocate, the Budget Watchdog, the COPS Voter Guide) and to a political consultant, Porter Public Strategies; a separate $2,500 late contribution from Yu Mlynarski was reported August 14, 2026, after this filing period had closed. Curt Emick's committee filed a semi-annual Form 460 for January-June 2026 on July 28, 2026; itemized transactions for that period include a $500 contribution from the Edison International Civic Action Committee (rendered "Internationaal" in the filing itself), a $1,000 contribution from Larry Cusack, several smaller individual contributions, roughly $1,536 in consulting fees paid to Porter Public Strategies, and, from a prior filing period (September 2025), a $325 loan from William Emick, whose own filed occupation/employer field reads "Walgreens, councilmember town of Apple Valley" -- a detail taken directly from the filing and not independently verified.](https://netfile.com/public/TAV/campaign) ## The rest of the ballot Apple Valley Town Council, District 3 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. 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