# Folsom City Council, District 5 Compare records and positions simply between Justin Hurst or Anna Rohrbough for Folsom City Council, District 5 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat on Folsom's City Council. The council has five members. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. They also appoint the city manager who runs day to day government. The council elects its own Mayor and Vice Mayor. It picks them from its five members each year. There is no separate Mayor of Folsom contest on this ballot. The term is four years. - Jurisdiction: City of Folsom - 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/folsom-council-5 - 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 1, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 77 out of 100 (Mixed), across 5 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Justin Hurst** — Government Advocacy Manager - **Anna Rohrbough** — Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Anna Rohrbough faces challenger Justin Hurst for Folsom City Council District 5. Whichever candidate gets the most votes on November 3 wins outright; there's no runoff. This person holds District 5's seat on Folsom's 5-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. They also appoint the city manager who runs day-to-day government. Folsom's council picks its own Mayor and Vice Mayor each year from its five district members. Voters do not choose a separate citywide mayor. The term is four years. Rohrbough is running on a term's worth of specific work. That includes a Homeless Outreach Team, fire-department restructuring, and budget-oversight measures. Rohrbough's message is following data over public pressure. Hurst is a first-time candidate for this office. They already sit on the city's Planning Commission. They are running on housing affordability and rebuilding city fiscal reserves. Their platform is explicitly tied to the progressive Project Plenty organizing network. ## Anna Rohrbough The incumbent Vice Mayor as of the city's own directory snapshot in February 2026; Rohrbough's own ballot designation is simply "Incumbent." They point to a term built around public-safety initiatives -- championing a Homeless Outreach Team, supporting increased police staffing, adding traffic-safety enforcement, and restructuring the fire department's training and paramedic staffing -- alongside fiscal-oversight work they say they "raised ... early, before it was popular," crediting it with keeping the city within its adopted budget and exceeding its reserve targets. They also cite work on parks and trails, the Castle Park rebuild, ADA accessibility, and e-bike safety. Their stated approach: "I don't follow the loudest voices in the room. I follow the data, the budget and the long-term interests of the people who live here." **Strengths:** A term's worth of named initiatives -- the Homeless Outreach Team, fire-department restructuring, budget oversight -- gives concrete, checkable accomplishments. **Trade-offs:** Rohrbough's campaign site doesn't describe their pre-council occupation, so their profile here rests mainly on their council record. **Keep in mind:** No Cal-Access committee could be verified for Rohrbough in this pass -- see Financial info. ## Justin Hurst A lifelong resident of the Folsom area with degrees from UC Davis and CSU Sacramento, currently a government-relations and advocacy manager at the California State Association of Counties (CSAC) and a sitting Folsom Planning Commissioner. Hurst's platform centers on "missing middle" housing (expanding affordable middle-class housing options through developer collaboration), fiscal responsibility (prioritizing one-time funds and rebuilding city reserves), dedicated funding for deferred infrastructure and parks maintenance, and expanded community engagement through town halls and outreach staffing. Their campaign is affiliated with Project Plenty, a progressive grassroots organizing effort built around what it calls California's "Affordability Agenda." **Strengths:** A current Planning Commission seat gives Hurst direct, recent exposure to Folsom's land-use process, plus a government-relations career in public-sector budgeting. **Trade-offs:** No prior elected office; their campaign's explicit tie to a named organizing network (Project Plenty) is a clearer ideological signal than most challengers here. **Keep in mind:** Hurst's own site lists an FPPC filer ID (#1487158) but no dollar figures -- see Financial info. ## Review notes - Anna Rohrbough's own campaign site for Folsom City Council District 5: her framing of her record as the incumbent Vice Mayor and Justin Hurst's own campaign site for Folsom City Council District 5: a CSAC government-relations manager and sitting Folsom Planning Commissioner, his platform, and his Project Plenty affiliation may have more bias because they are advocacy voter guides compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## Sources 1. [Sacramento County Voter Registration & Elections — Roster of Candidates, November 3, 2026 General Election](https://elections.saccounty.gov/content/vre/us/en/campaign-services/candidate-report.html) 2. [City of Folsom — City Councilmembers directory (archived via Wayback Machine, Jan. 1, 2025 snapshot; folsom.ca.us itself 403s direct fetches): District 1 Councilmember Mike Kozlowski, District 2 Vice Mayor Justin Raithel, District 3 Mayor Sarah Aquino, District 4 Councilmember Barbara Leary, District 5 Councilmember Anna Rohrbough](https://web.archive.org/web/20250101101442/https://www.folsom.ca.us/government/city-council-and-commissions) 3. [City of Folsom — City Councilmembers directory (archived via Wayback Machine, Feb. 15, 2026 snapshot; folsom.ca.us itself 403s direct fetches): names, districts, terms ("Current Term ends November, 2026" for Kozlowski/D1, Aquino/D3, and Rohrbough/D5; "...2028" for Raithel/D2 and Leary/D4), and contact info for all five sitting councilmembers, with Raithel shown as Mayor and Rohrbough as Vice Mayor](https://web.archive.org/web/20260215202513/https://www.folsom.ca.us/government/city-council-and-commissions/city-councilmembers) 4. [Anna Rohrbough's own campaign site for Folsom City Council District 5: her framing of her record as the incumbent Vice Mayor — public safety, fiscal stewardship, and quality-of-life/infrastructure priorities](https://www.annarohrbough.com) 5. [Justin Hurst's own campaign site for Folsom City Council District 5: a CSAC government-relations manager and sitting Folsom Planning Commissioner, his "missing middle" housing and fiscal-responsibility platform, and his Project Plenty affiliation](https://www.justinhurst.org) ## The rest of the ballot Folsom City Council, District 5 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, "Folsom City Council, District 5 — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/folsom-council-5 (sources last retrieved September 1, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. 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