# Concord City Treasurer Patti Barsotti is running uncontested for Concord City Treasurer. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This is Concord's elected City Treasurer. It is a part-time, advisory role. The Treasurer oversees the city's cash and investments. They report to the Council each quarter. The job pays $600 a month. A city Senior Financial Analyst handles the daily work. The Treasurer is elected citywide. The term is four years. - Jurisdiction: City of Concord - 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/concord-treasurer - 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: 95 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 - **Patti Barsotti** — Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Only one candidate qualified for this seat. Incumbent Treasurer Patti Barsotti appears unopposed for another term -- so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome. Concord's Treasurer is a part-time, advisory elected office overseeing the city's cash and investments and reporting on the city's financial position to the Council each quarter. Day-to-day work is handled by a city Senior Financial Analyst, not the Treasurer personally. The position pays $600 a month and is elected citywide to a four-year term. With no opponent, the useful question is not who to choose but what the officeholder has done and what to watch next. An unopposed return means accountability for this office over the next four years runs through the Council's quarterly review of the city's investment reports rather than through the ballot. ## Patti Barsotti The incumbent City Treasurer, unopposed for re-election, with a filed ballot designation of simply "Incumbent." No campaign website, news coverage, or further biography beyond their current officeholder status was located for them in this pass despite a real search effort -- domain guesses, a Ballotpedia lookup, and repeated search-engine queries all failed to surface anything more. **Strengths:** A sitting term already in the office, confirmed directly by the city's own Treasurer page. **Trade-offs:** This dataset found no independent reporting evaluating their time in the role. **Keep in mind:** Running unopposed, and with Concord's own NetFile portal unreachable by this session's fetch tooling, no campaign-finance filing could be checked for them in this pass. ## Sources 1. [Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Positions Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election": the only county-section contest in the document is County Board of Education Areas 2, 4, and 5 (under Schools) -- no Board of Supervisors, row office, or Superior Court seat appears anywhere, consistent with both Supervisor seats up this cycle (Districts 1 and 4) having been decided outright in the June 2026 primary](https://www.contracostavote.gov/wp-content/uploads/26Nov03_PositionsUpForElection.pdf) 2. [City of Concord -- "November 2026 Candidates" official roster (cityofconcord.org/1394): every qualified candidate for City Council Districts 1, 3, and 5 and City Treasurer, with filing and qualification dates and an incumbent flag -- Laura Hoffmeister*, Maria Bagley, and Trish Brazil for District 1; Don Seta, Robyn Kuslits, Dena Acosta Beere, and Douglas Lezameta for District 3; Laura Nakamura* and Aeysha Corio for District 5; Edith Patricia "Patti" Barsotti*, unopposed, for Treasurer](https://www.cityofconcord.org/1394/November-2026-Candidates) 3. [City of Concord -- "Elections" page (cityofconcord.org/226): confirms the 5-member, district-elected City Council structure with staggered 4-year terms (three seats one cycle, two the next -- Districts 1, 3, 5 this cycle), that the Council chooses its own Mayor and Vice Mayor each year from among its five members (a 1-year term, no separate directly-elected mayoral contest), and that the City Treasurer is elected citywide for a 4-year term, paid $600 a month, and does not serve full-time](https://www.cityofconcord.org/226/Elections) 4. [City of Concord City Clerk -- individual "Candidate Information Packet" PDFs for all nine qualified Nov. 2026 candidates (cityofconcord.org/DocumentCenter/View//, linked from the candidates roster; parsed locally with pypdf): supplies each candidate's filed ballot designation -- Hoffmeister "City Council Member," Bagley "Government Finance Manager," Brazil "Business Owner," Seta "Retired Lt. Colonel," Kuslits "Substitute Teacher," Acosta Beere "Community Volunteer," Lezameta "Small Business Owner," Nakamura "City Council Member," Barsotti "Incumbent" -- and confirms none of the nine submitted the optional Candidate Statement of Qualifications](https://www.cityofconcord.org/1394/November-2026-Candidates) 5. [Contra Costa News -- "November Ballot Taking Shape in Contra Costa County" (Aug. 7, 2026): independent local-news roundup of the county's own candidate filings, listing the same three-candidate Area 2 field, Mike Maxwell alone for Area 4, and Clyde Lewis, Jr. alone for Area 5](https://contracosta.news/2026/08/07/november-ballot-taking-shape-in-contra-costa-county/) 6. [Contra Costa County Elections Division -- "Positions Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election": lists Concord's four city-government contests (Treasurer, Districts 1/3/5) with no separate Mayor line](https://www.contracostavote.gov/wp-content/uploads/26Nov03_PositionsUpForElection.pdf) ## The rest of the ballot Concord City Treasurer 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, "Concord City Treasurer — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/concord-treasurer (sources last retrieved September 7, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. 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