# Carson City Council, District 4 Compare records and positions simply between John Hollaway or Arleen Bocatija Rojas for Carson City Council, District 4 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat on Carson's 5-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. The term is four years. - Jurisdiction: City of Carson - 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/carson-council-4 - 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: 81 out of 100 (Strong), across 7 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **John Hollaway** - **Arleen Bocatija Rojas** — Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Arleen Bocatija Rojas is a 31-year Los Angeles Police Department veteran now serving on the council. They face John Hollaway for the District 4 seat. Hollaway is a small-business owner and a sitting member of the city's own Public Works Commission. This person holds one of five district seats on Carson's City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land-use decisions. The term is four years. Council members choose one of their own to serve as mayor and mayor pro tem, presiding over meetings but casting only one vote like any other member. Rojas is campaigning on their three-decade law-enforcement background, with public safety and senior services among their stated priorities. Hollaway, a first-time candidate for this seat, is campaigning under the banner "Breaking barriers and building bridges" on infrastructure, neighborhood beautification, and responsive government, drawing on their sitting Public Works Commission seat and the community nonprofit they founded. ## Arleen Bocatija Rojas Arleen Bocatija Rojas is the incumbent. They are a 31-year veteran Los Angeles Police Department officer. They were the first female Filipino-American officer in LAPD history. They have established a Public Safety Task Force. They reactivated the city's Safety First Act Now community-safety initiative. They highlight their work improving relations between the Sheriff's Department and the community. They are also active across several Filipino-American civic and cultural organizations in the South Bay. **Strengths:** A 31-year LAPD career, including undercover work on trafficking and drug cases. It feeds directly into Rojas's council focus on public safety. **Trade-offs:** Their record centers on public safety and community outreach. The seat also covers budget and land-use decisions. Their stance there is less documented. **Keep in mind:** Their Public Safety Task Force and Safety First Act Now initiative are their signature projects. Whether either produces measurable results in a second term is not yet documented. ## John Hollaway John Hollaway is a first-time candidate for this seat. They founded Legacy Garage Doors. They have been a Carson small-business owner for more than 20 years. They are campaigning under the banner “Breaking barriers and building bridges.” They run on infrastructure and street improvements, neighborhood beautification, and responsive government. They sit on the city's own Public Works Commission. They founded Carson 411, a nonprofit running scholarship, senior, and neighborhood-cleanup programs. **Strengths:** A sitting seat on the city's own Public Works Commission. It gives Hollaway direct exposure to the infrastructure decisions this council seat controls. **Trade-offs:** They have no prior elected office. Their public record is commission service and nonprofit work rather than City Council votes. **Keep in mind:** No local campaign-finance filing is on record under their name. That holds despite an active fundraising campaign site. See Financial info. ## Review notes - John Hollaway for Carson City Council District 4 may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## Sources 1. [City of Carson — REVISED Notice of General Municipal Election, November 3, 2026 (City Clerk, City Treasurer, Council Districts 2 and 4, each a term expiring November 2030; dated Aug. 26, 2026)](https://carsonca.gov/Documents/Department/CityClerk/E-Board/REVISED%20NOTICE%20OF%20GENERAL%20MUNICIPAL%20ELECTION%20NOVEMBER%203%2C%202026.pdf) 2. [City of Carson — Elected Officials (current council roster by district)](https://carsonca.gov/government/elected_officials/) 3. [City of Carson — CampaignDocs eRetrieval (SouthTech/Granicus public campaign-finance disclosure portal)](https://www.southtechhosting.com/CarsonCity/CampaignDocsWebRetrieval/Default.aspx) 4. [The Ballot Book — City of Carson District 2 2026 candidates (unofficial, automated-monitoring aggregator)](https://theballotbook.com/jurisdictions/1333/candidates) 5. [City of Carson — Arleen B Rojas Biography (official council-member bio)](https://carsonca.gov/government/elected_officials/arleenrojasbio) 6. [John Hollaway for Carson City Council District 4 — campaign site](https://www.jh4carson.com) 7. [Carson Accountability and Transparency — Sai Momoli Civic Excellence Award page naming John Hollaway](https://www.carsoncat.org/saimomoli) ## The rest of the ballot Carson City Council, District 4 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, "Carson City Council, District 4 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/carson-council-4 (sources last retrieved September 7, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. Coverage is updated as the race develops, so quote it with its retrieval date.