# Beaumont City Clerk Compare records and positions simply between Kathleen Aguilar-Billinger or Elaine Morgan for Beaumont City Clerk at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person is Beaumont's elections official. They also keep the city's records, like agendas, minutes, contracts, and campaign disclosure filings. The term is four years. - Jurisdiction: City of Beaumont - 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/beaumont-city-clerk - 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 3, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 88 out of 100 (Strong), across 6 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Kathleen Aguilar-Billinger** — Retired Board Clerk - **Elaine Morgan** — Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Two candidates are running for Beaumont's one City Clerk seat: incumbent Elaine Morgan and challenger Kathleen Aguilar-Billinger. Whichever candidate gets the most votes wins outright — no runoff. The city clerk runs city elections and keeps Beaumont's official public records — agendas, minutes, contracts — and administers campaign-disclosure filings. The office is elected at-large to a four-year term. Neither candidate filed a Candidate's Statement — both checked "I DO NOT wish to submit a Candidate's Statement" on their filings — so what's available is each candidate's own filed ballot designation and its justification, not a first-person platform. ## Elaine Morgan The incumbent, running under the ballot designation "Incumbent." Their filing states they have served as Beaumont's City Clerk since Dec. 6, 2022. They did not file a Candidate's Statement. **Strengths:** Nearly four years already in the seat, running for a first full term. **Trade-offs:** With no Candidate's Statement filed, there's no first-person account of Morgan's priorities or plans for a full term — only the fact of their incumbency. **Keep in mind:** The clerk's job is largely procedural — running elections and keeping records straight — so an incumbent's in-office record is the most direct evidence available here, and none beyond the bare fact of Morgan's tenure is in the record this page draws on. ## Kathleen Aguilar-Billinger A challenger, running under the ballot designation "Retired Board Clerk." Their filing states they served as Clerk of the Board for the Lake Hemet Municipal Water District for over eight years (through November 2025), after prior years serving as a backup clerk there. They did not file a Candidate's Statement. **Strengths:** Directly relevant clerking experience — years running board proceedings and records for another local public agency. **Trade-offs:** With no Candidate's Statement filed, there's no first-person account of why they're running, and their record is with a water district's board, not city elections work. **Keep in mind:** Their experience is the closest thing to a platform in the record here — the choice is largely between Morgan's sitting incumbency and Aguilar-Billinger's outside clerking background, since neither candidate has said more than that in writing. ## Sources 1. [City of Beaumont -- "Candidacy in a Municipal Election" guide (Nov. 3, 2026 General Municipal Election): confirms Beaumont is a General Law city with Council-Manager government, a 5-member at-large City Council, and a City Clerk and City Treasurer each elected at-large to 4-year terms, with Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem selected by the Council annually rather than directly elected; positions up in 2026: three Council seats, one City Clerk seat, one City Treasurer seat](https://www.beaumontca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/40564/Beaumont-Elections-Flyer-2026) 2. [City of Beaumont City Clerk -- "2026 Candidate Information" page: the clerk's own chart of every campaign/nomination document received for the Nov. 3, 2026 Municipal Election, confirming the qualified roster for City Council (six candidates: incumbents Lloyd White, Jessica Voigt and Mike Lara, and challengers Joseph Mathews, "James Mercado" (his own filed documents and campaign site consistently spell it "Jim Mercado") and Carlos Cueva) and City Clerk (incumbent Elaine Morgan and challenger Kathleen Aguilar-Billinger); no City Treasurer section appears anywhere on the page as of retrieval (weeks after the Aug. 7/12 filing deadline), though the office was listed as up for election on the city's own election guide](https://www.beaumontca.gov/1133/2026-Candidate-Information) 3. [City of Beaumont -- Government and City Council pages: confirm the sitting council roster as of Aug. 2026 (Mayor Jessica Voigt, Mayor Pro Tem Lloyd White, and Councilmembers Mike Lara, Julio Martinez III and David Fenn) and that Mayor/Mayor Pro Tem rotate annually among the five at-large council members rather than being directly elected](https://www.beaumontca.gov/29/City-Council) 4. [City of Beaumont -- Elaine Morgan's filed Ballot Designation Worksheet for City Clerk (proposed designation "Incumbent"; justification cites her current term as City Clerk since Dec. 6, 2022); she checked "I DO NOT wish to submit a Candidate's Statement" on the companion form, so no statement was filed](https://www.beaumontca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/40738/Elaine-Morgan-Ballot-Designation-Worksheet-Redacted-08072026) 5. [City of Beaumont -- Kathleen Aguilar-Billinger's filed Ballot Designation Worksheet for City Clerk (proposed designation "Retired Board Clerk"; justification cites over 8 years as Clerk of the Board for the Lake Hemet Municipal Water District, Oct. 2017-Nov. 2025, plus prior years as a backup clerk); she checked "I DO NOT wish to submit a Candidate's Statement" on the companion form, so no statement was filed](https://www.beaumontca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/40747/Kathleen-Aguilar-Billinger-Ballot-Designation-Worksheet-Redacted-08072026) 6. [City of Beaumont Electronic Filing System — public campaign-disclosure search](https://efile.beaumontca.gov/public/search/campaign) ## The rest of the ballot Beaumont City Clerk 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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