Dorris City Council

Two of Dorris's City Council seats are up this cycle, and three candidates filed for them: incumbents Abner Weed and 'Duck' Donald G. Clontz Sr., plus non-incumbent Eric Ray Stafford. With three candidates for two seats, this is a genuinely contested race that goes to the ballot -- not a case where the city could appoint winners and skip the election.

This person would hold one of Dorris's City Council seats for a 4-year term running Dec. 4, 2026 - Dec. 6, 2030: city ordinances, the budget, and land use in a small Butte Valley city (incorporated Dec. 23, 1908; population about 860 as of the 2020 Census, U.S. Route 97 runs through downtown). No separately elected 'Mayor of Dorris' appears anywhere in Siskiyou County's own election documents -- like every other city and town on the county's Nov. 2026 local-offices list, Dorris has only 'Council Member' seats up, consistent with the small general-law-city pattern (independently confirmed elsewhere in this dataset for Red Bluff, Ukiah, and Wheatland) where the council elects its own mayor from among its own members, rather than voters directly electing one.

That mayor-selection pattern is inferred from the county documents' consistent silence on a separate Dorris Mayor seat, not confirmed by a Dorris-specific source -- no official City of Dorris website could be reached this pass under any domain tried, and the Wayback Machine holds no archived crawl of one either. What's confirmed either way: two seats are contested by three candidates, so this goes to the ballot regardless of who wins. What's genuinely thin: beyond each candidate's own filed ballot designation, there's little independently verifiable background to weigh them against each other on -- a function of Dorris's small size and its very thin local-news environment, not anything being withheld.

No official City of Dorris website resolved under any domain guessed this pass (cityofdorris.org/.com/.net, dorris-ca.gov, ci.dorris.ca.us, and several others all failed DNS resolution), so the county's two documents are the only sources behind this race's structure. Neither one states Dorris's total Council size or which specific two of however many seats are up -- only that two 'Full Term' seats are up this cycle, both held by the two incumbents in this race.

A separate City of Dorris City Treasurer seat (Short Term) also appears on the county's earlier planning document, marked 'Vacant' with no incumbent -- and it drops off the county's later, final certified candidate list entirely, confirming zero candidates filed for it. That's a different office with nothing to vote on; it isn't part of this contest.

Abner Weed

"Duck" Donald G. Clontz Sr.

Eric Ray Stafford

Candidate background for this contest is genuinely thin across all three names, not lopsided: beyond the two incumbents' confirmed Council seats, none of the three has an independently verifiable occupation, platform, or civic record in this pass. Dorris is a city of about 860 people with no dedicated local newspaper of its own; Siskiyou Daily News, siskiyou.news, the Mt. Shasta News, and KRCR were all checked and returned no 2026 Dorris City Council coverage, and this session's separate WebSearch tool budget was already exhausted before this jurisdiction's research began. This reflects the genuinely small scale of local press attention this race draws, not anything being withheld.