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City of Dunsmuir · Statewide General Election

Dunsmuir City Council

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On the ballot

This person would hold one of Dunsmuir's five City Council seats for a 4-year term (through Dec. 2030): city ordinances, the budget, and land use, under a council-manager government where an appointed City Manager runs day-to-day operations. Dunsmuir (population about 1,600, a Sacramento River railroad town in the Cascades near Mt. Shasta) is a general-law city; the ballot carries no separately elected 'Mayor of Dunsmuir' contest -- the City's own Council roster shows Mayor and Vice Mayor as titles held by two of the five sitting Councilmembers, not a separate office.

Three of Dunsmuir's five City Council seats are up this cycle, and six candidates filed for them -- more than double the openings. That makes this a genuinely contested race that goes to the ballot, not a case where the city could just appoint the winners and skip the election.

This person would hold one of Dunsmuir's five City Council seats for a 4-year term (through Dec. 2030): city ordinances, the budget, and land use, under a council-manager government where an appointed City Manager runs day-to-day operations. Dunsmuir is a small Sacramento River railroad town in the Cascades near Mt. Shasta, with a population of roughly 1,600. It's a general-law city, and there's no separately elected 'Mayor of Dunsmuir' contest on this ballot -- the City's own Council roster page lists Mayor and Vice Mayor as titles currently held by two of the five sitting Councilmembers (Juliana Lucchesi and Sarah Sebring), not as separate elected offices.

Three seats are up because three incumbents' terms expire this cycle: Matthew Bryan, Michael W Clarno, and Mayor Juliana Lucchesi, all first elected in November 2022. Bryan and Clarno both filed for reelection. Lucchesi did not -- she isn't among the six candidates on the county's certified list -- so her seat is open regardless of who else wins. This dataset did not find a stated reason for her not seeking reelection, and doesn't guess at one.

This dataset did not find a Dunsmuir-specific citation for exactly how the Council assigns the Mayor and Vice Mayor titles among its members each term -- unlike a couple of other small Northern California cities in this dataset (Red Bluff, Wheatland), where the city's own budget or council documents state the annual selection mechanism outright. What is confirmed, independently, by three separate documents -- the county's Final Candidate List, its List of Local Offices, and the City's own election notice -- is that only a 3-seat 'City Council' office is on this ballot, with no separate Mayor line on any of them.

Matthew Bryan

Matthew Bryan is an incumbent Councilmember seeking reelection, first elected in November 2022. Per the City's own Council page, he was born and raised in South Siskiyou County, attended Golden Eagle Charter School, and served as a Rotary Youth Exchange Ambassador in Switzerland. He holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Thomas Aquinas College and has worked since 2016 as a manager at Mt. Shasta Ski Park and as a California real estate agent.

Strengths

A sitting incumbent with four years of Council experience and a real, sourced biography -- local roots, ski-resort management, and real estate.

Trade-offs

No independent news coverage of his Council record or 2026 campaign platform was found in this pass.

Keep in mind

The bio comes from the City's own site, written to introduce him as a sitting official -- it's real background, not necessarily his own campaign framing for this specific race.

Michael W Clarno

Michael W Clarno is an incumbent Councilmember seeking reelection, first elected in November 2022. The City's own Council page confirms his sitting membership but, unlike Bryan's entry, provides no biography beyond that. No independent occupation, platform, or civic background was found for him in this pass.

Strengths

A sitting incumbent with four years of Council experience, confirmed directly by the City's own official roster.

Trade-offs

No independent record of his occupation, platform, or voting record was found in this pass -- his incumbency is confirmed, but little else about him is.

Keep in mind

The gap in his profile relative to Bryan's isn't unusual for this dataset -- the City's own site simply didn't write a bio for him the way it did for Bryan.

Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson is a non-incumbent candidate for Dunsmuir City Council, filed with no ballot designation. No occupation, platform, or civic background for him was found in the City's own materials, local news, or a general web check in this pass.

Strengths

None independently confirmed.

Trade-offs

No occupation, platform, or news coverage was found for his 2026 candidacy, and he filed with no ballot designation at all -- the county's own form for that field appears to have been left blank.

Keep in mind

A separate Brian Wilson runs elsewhere on this same county ballot for school board. This dataset could not confirm whether that's the same person, and does not assume it is.

Alan Clother

Alan Clother is a non-incumbent candidate for Dunsmuir City Council, filed with the ballot designation "Retired Executive." No further occupation detail, platform, or civic background was found for him in this pass.

Strengths

None independently confirmed beyond his own filed designation.

Trade-offs

No news coverage, campaign platform, or civic record was found for him -- "Retired Executive" is self-reported and this dataset could not independently verify what it refers to.

Keep in mind

A thin public record is common for first-time small-town candidates and isn't itself a red flag.

Andrew McLane

Andrew McLane is a non-incumbent candidate for Dunsmuir City Council, filed with the ballot designation "Software Developer" and a listed phone number in the county's candidate filing. No further occupation detail, platform, or civic background was found for him in this pass.

Strengths

None independently confirmed beyond his own filed designation.

Trade-offs

No news coverage, campaign platform, or civic record was found for him in this pass.

Keep in mind

Nothing found in this pass suggests he has held office before; treat his candidacy as a first-time run absent evidence otherwise.

Cami Giacomelli-DeClusin

Cami Giacomelli-DeClusin is a non-incumbent candidate for Dunsmuir City Council, filed with the ballot designation "Administrative Assistant" and a residence address within city limits on the county's candidate filing. No further occupation detail, platform, or civic background was found for her in this pass.

Strengths

None independently confirmed beyond her own filed designation.

Trade-offs

No news coverage, campaign platform, or civic record was found for her in this pass.

Keep in mind

Nothing found in this pass suggests she has held office before; treat her candidacy as a first-time run absent evidence otherwise.

Candidate background for this contest is genuinely thin and roughly symmetric, not lopsided toward any one candidate. Beyond Matthew Bryan's sourced career biography and both incumbents' confirmed Council membership, none of the six has an independently verifiable platform or civic record in this pass. Dunsmuir is a town of about 1,600 people; this dataset checked Mount Shasta News and Siskiyou.news directly for coverage of this specific race and found none accessible (one paywalled, one returned no matching results), and this pass did not have working web search available to broaden that check further. That reflects a small town's thin local-news environment and this session's tooling limits, not anything being withheld about any one candidate.

Source review: Strong (80/100) · 6 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

  • siskiyoucounty.gov (opens in a new tab)Siskiyou County -- "Final Siskiyou County Candidate List -- Local Offices Going to Election, November 3, 2026, General Election" (as of 08/12/2026 4:00 p.m.): names all six qualified Dunsmuir City Council candidates and their filed ballot designations for "City of Dunsmuir, City Council -- Full Term -- Vote for 3."
  • siskiyoucounty.gov (opens in a new tab)Siskiyou County -- "List of Local Offices to be Elected, November 3, 2026, General Election": names the three pre-filing incumbents (Matthew Bryan, Michael Clarno, Juliana Lucchesi) for "City of Dunsmuir Council Member, Full-Term -- 3 positions" and dates the Full-Term seats 12/4/26-12/6/30.
  • dunsmuirca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Dunsmuir -- "Notice of Upcoming Municipal Election" (City Clerk, posted July 9, 2026): confirms "Three City Council positions" are up this cycle, with no separate Mayor race mentioned.
  • dunsmuirca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Dunsmuir -- City Council page: the City's own current five-member roster, showing Mayor and Vice Mayor as titles held by two of the five sitting Councilmembers rather than separate offices, and carrying a biography for incumbent Matthew Bryan.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia, "Dunsmuir, California": used narrowly for population and city-manager government structure.
  • siskiyoucounty.gov (opens in a new tab)Siskiyou County Elections -- Campaign Statements page (AB 2151 disclosure): checked directly for Dunsmuir City Council filings; carries no linked Form 460/700 filings for any of the six 2026 candidates.

Last updated September 2, 2026.