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Chico City Council, District 2

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On the ballot

This person would represent District 2 on Chico's seven-member City Council, and would be a strong contender to become the Council's next chosen Mayor: the incumbent, Kasey Reynolds, currently holds both seats. Chico is a charter city, the largest in Butte County with a 2020 Census population of 101,475, governed under the council-manager form: an appointed city manager runs day-to-day operations while a seven-member, district-elected City Council sets policy. The Council chooses one of its own members to serve a two-year term as Mayor -- Kasey Reynolds has held the role since December 2024 -- so there is no separately elected Mayor seat on this ballot. Council seats serve staggered 4-year terms; Districts 1, 3, 5, and 7 are not up again until 2028.

Mayor Kasey Reynolds is seeking re-election to her District 2 City Council seat against challenger Shelby Hebert, a wildfire-resilience program coordinator.

This person would represent District 2 on Chico's seven-member City Council, and -- since the incumbent currently holds the office -- would be a strong contender to become the Council's next chosen Mayor. Chico is a charter city, the largest in Butte County with a 2020 Census population of 101,475, governed under the council-manager form: an appointed city manager runs day-to-day operations while the district-elected Council sets policy and the budget. The Council chooses one of its own members to serve a two-year term as Mayor -- Reynolds has held the role since December 2024 -- so there is no separately elected Mayor seat on this ballot. Council seats serve staggered 4-year terms; Districts 1, 3, 5, and 7 aren't up again until 2028.

With two names on the ballot for one seat, District 2 is decided by whichever candidate gets more votes on November 3 -- no ranked-choice voting or runoff.

Kasey Reynolds

The incumbent Mayor, seeking another Council term; her filed ballot designation reflects both roles. Per her own council-provided biography, she is a lifelong Chico resident and fourth-generation co-owner of Shubert's Ice Cream & Candy, who took over ownership alongside her brother Nathan a decade ago. She has served on numerous local boards and clubs, currently focused on the Omega Nu Sorority's work funding scholarships for local high-school seniors. She is married to Mike, with five children and three grandchildren.

Strengths

Deep, multi-generational local roots and a business the family has run for decades, plus experience as the Council's sitting Mayor.

Trade-offs

A search surfaced a headline reporting a lawsuit by former Mayor Ann Schwab alleging she violated the Political Reform Act on a downtown-revitalization vote; the outcome is unconfirmed here.

Keep in mind

As Mayor, she presides over Council meetings and casts one vote like every other member -- it isn't a separately empowered executive role.

Shelby Hebert

A challenger; filed ballot designation "Fire-Resilience Program Coordinator." Per Hebert's own campaign site, they are a Texas A&M graduate raised by a single father in Southeast Texas, with a decade-plus career in public service that includes Bike and Build affordable-housing construction, an AmeriCorps fellowship on food access in Sonoma County, and work on a chainsaw crew at Lassen Volcanic National Park. The Colusa County Resource Conservation District's own staff page independently confirms their current role: Wildfire Resilience Program Coordinator. Their community work includes BCCER's Outdoor Classroom, the Butte County Local Food Network, the CHAT Everhart Village development, the Altacal Bird Alliance, and a weekly women's-music show on KZFR radio.

Strengths

Direct, hands-on experience in wildfire resilience, land conservation, and community food/environmental work, plus a decade-plus record of public-service roles.

Trade-offs

As a non-incumbent, they have no council voting record; this dataset found no independent news coverage of the campaign beyond their own site and their employer's staff page.

Keep in mind

Their current job is with the Colusa County Resource Conservation District, a neighboring-county agency -- not a Chico or Butte County employer, which voters may want to weigh alongside their stated local community ties.

Source review: Strong (80/100) · 9 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with several source types checked for context; advocacy or endorsement sources are treated as attributed perspective.

Review note: Shelby Hebert's own campaign site (shelbyforchico.com/meet-shelby), fetched directly: a Texas A&M graduate raised by a single father in Southeast Texas; a decade-plus career in public service including Bike and Build affordable-housing construction, an AmeriCorps fellowship on food access in Sonoma County, and work on a chainsaw crew at Lassen Volcanic National Park; community work with BCCER's Outdoor Classroom, the Butte County Local Food Network, the CHAT Everhart Village development, the Altacal Bird Alliance, and a weekly women's-music show on KZFR radio; platform emphasizing affordability, small-business viability, and healthy waterways and greenspaces. may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.

  • buttevotes.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)Butte County -- "Final Qualified Candidate List" for the Nov. 3, 2026 General Election (report CFMR009, contest IDs 4002-6806, print date 8/27/2026), fetched and read directly as a PDF: names three City of Chico contests as "On Ballot: Yes," "Vote For: 1" -- Contest 4112 (District 2, incumbent Kasey Reynolds vs. Shelby Hebert), Contest 4114 (District 4, incumbent Addison Winslow vs. Tracy Vincent), and Contest 4116 (District 6, incumbent Tom van Overbeek vs. Megan Thomas Petty). No other City of Chico contest appears anywhere in the document.
  • chicoca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Chico -- official City Council Directory page: confirms Mayor Kasey Reynolds (District 2, term 2022-2026, Mayor since Dec. 4, 2024, elected 2018 and 2022), Addison Winslow (District 4, term 2022-2026, elected Nov. 8, 2022), and Tom van Overbeek (District 6, term 2022-2026, elected Nov. 8, 2022) as the three councilmembers whose terms expire this cycle, and links each sitting member's own self-provided biography PDF.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia, "Chico, California": 2020 Census population 101,475; a charter city with a council-manager government; "Chico's city council consists of seven nonpartisan council members each elected from one of the seven districts in November of even-numbered years. The districts were officially created in February 2020." Used narrowly for this background, not for any 2026 election content.
  • netfile.com (opens in a new tab)A negative-result local campaign-finance check: Chico's NetFile public portal returns only a bare, client-rendered "Public Portal" shell with no server-side filer or committee content on direct fetch, the same access gap documented dataset-wide for other NetFile jurisdictions.
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)A negative-result access check: California's statewide Cal- Access campaign-finance filer/candidate search returned an Incapsula bot-detection challenge page instead of results on direct fetch, the same recurring block documented elsewhere in this dataset.
  • d16k74nzx9emoe.cloudfront.net (opens in a new tab)City of Chico -- Mayor Kasey Reynolds's own council-provided biography PDF: a lifelong Chico resident and fourth-generation co-owner of Shubert's Ice Cream & Candy, who took over ownership with her brother Nathan a decade ago; has served on numerous local boards and clubs, currently focused on the Omega Nu Sorority's scholarships for local high-school seniors; married to Mike, with five children and three grandchildren.
  • msn.com (opens in a new tab)MSN (Bing News search result) -- "Kasey Reynolds faces lawsuit over downtown revitalization vote": reports a lawsuit by former Chico Mayor Ann Schwab alleging Reynolds violated the Political Reform Act by not recusing herself from a vote on the downtown revitalization project. The article body did not render for this pass; cited only for the existence and headline of the dispute, not for any further detail (outcome, FPPC status, or ruling).
  • shelbyforchico.com (opens in a new tab)Shelby Hebert's own campaign site (shelbyforchico.com/meet- shelby), fetched directly: a Texas A&M graduate raised by a single father in Southeast Texas; a decade-plus career in public service including Bike and Build affordable-housing construction, an AmeriCorps fellowship on food access in Sonoma County, and work on a chainsaw crew at Lassen Volcanic National Park; community work with BCCER's Outdoor Classroom, the Butte County Local Food Network, the CHAT Everhart Village development, the Altacal Bird Alliance, and a weekly women's-music show on KZFR radio; platform emphasizing affordability, small-business viability, and healthy waterways and greenspaces.
  • colusarcd.org (opens in a new tab)Colusa County Resource Conservation District -- own staff page, fetched directly: Shelby Hebert, Wildfire Resilience Program Coordinator, described in her own bio as "a settler in Mechoopda territory" with experience in forestry and fire crews in the Pit River and Big Chico Creek watersheds and nonprofit conservation work; referred to with they/their pronouns. Independently confirms her employer and title, matching her ballot designation ("Fire-Resilience Program Coordinator").

Last updated September 2, 2026.