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City of Fontana · Statewide General Election

Fontana City Clerk

Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.

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On the ballot

This person is Fontana's elections official and the custodian of the city's public records -- agendas, minutes, contracts, and campaign-disclosure filings. A 4-year term.

Incumbent City Clerk Germaine Key, elected in 2022 after being appointed to fill a vacancy, seeks a full second term against two challengers: Joe Alvanez, running as part of the five-candidate Fontana United slate, and Daniel Quiroga. Whichever candidate gets the most votes wins outright; there is no runoff.

Fontana's City Clerk is directly elected citywide and serves as the city's elections official and the custodian of its public records -- agendas, minutes, contracts, and campaign-disclosure filings. A 4-year term.

Key has 45 years of government experience, including 17 years as a Division Chief with LA County's Department of Children and Family Services, per the city's own biography. Alvanez, an IT and data professional, previously ran for San Bernardino County Supervisor and is now running for Clerk with the outside-organized Fontana United slate on a records-modernization platform. Quiroga, a teacher, has no discoverable independent profile beyond his filed ballot designation.

Germaine Key

Germaine Key is Fontana's incumbent City Clerk, appointed to fill a vacancy in March 2022 and elected in her own right that November. She brings 45 years of government experience, including 17 years as a Division Chief with LA County's Department of Children and Family Services, per the city's own biography.

Strengths

Four years in the role already plus 45 years of broader government administrative experience, per her own official biography.

Trade-offs

No independent reporting evaluating her record in the role was found in this pass; financial info for this race could not be retrieved in this pass (see note below).

Keep in mind

Her career background is in social-services administration, not elections administration specifically -- both are relevant to the Clerk's record-keeping role.

Joe Alvanez

Joe Alvanez is a challenger for Fontana City Clerk, running as part of the Fontana United slate. An IT and data professional, he previously ran for San Bernardino County Supervisor (District 2) and drew about 13,650 votes (roughly 18%) in that primary, per his own campaign site. His platform centers on modernizing the Clerk's public-records systems.

Strengths

A specific, five-point records-modernization platform in his own words, plus a prior campaign for county office that gives voters a track record to weigh.

Trade-offs

No independent, non-campaign reporting on his background or platform was found in this pass; financial info could not be retrieved in this pass (see note below).

Keep in mind

The platform and prior vote share described above come from his own campaign site, not an independent evaluation of either.

Daniel Quiroga

Daniel Quiroga is a challenger for Fontana City Clerk, filing under the ballot designation "Teacher." No independent information about his background or platform was found in this research pass beyond his filed ballot designation.

Strengths

None could be documented in this research pass.

Trade-offs

No campaign site, news coverage, or independent profile was found beyond the filed ballot designation.

Keep in mind

A first-time candidate with no public record yet is not necessarily weaker -- only less documented; weigh the ballot designation on its own.

Source review: Strong (85/100) · 8 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked; advocacy or endorsement sources are treated as attributed perspective.

Review note: Fontana United -- coalition campaign site naming a coordinated 5-candidate slate across this cycle's Fontana races: Joz Sida (Mayor), Nubia Diaz (Council District 1), Ben Vasquez (Council District 4), Joe Alvanez (City Clerk), and Kamal Namou (City Treasurer); self-describes as "an inclusive alternative" to incumbent leadership with a shared platform opposing warehouse expansion, backing evening meeting times and language access, and supporting police accountability and opposing "federal immigration abuses" and Joe Alvanez for Fontana City Clerk -- campaign site: an IT/data professional running on a five-point records-modernization platform ("Open Records. Open Government. Open Doors."); notes he previously ran for San Bernardino County Supervisor (District 2) and drew about 13,650 votes (roughly 18%) in that primary may have more bias because they are advocacy voter guides compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.

  • uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov (opens in a new tab)San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- statewide "Report_CandidateList.pdf" candidate-filing report (the same document as sb-candidate-list-2026 above, a different section): within its "City of Fontana" section (pp. 133-142 of 249), five contests appear, each "Number to be elected: 1" -- Mayor (7 candidates on the ballot, 2 with a candidate statement filed), Member of the City Council District 1 (2), District 4 (3), City Clerk (3), and City Treasurer (2); Districts 2 and 3 do not appear anywhere in the Fontana section
  • fontanaca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Fontana -- "Candidate List, November 3, 2026 Election" (public record, DocumentCenter #50272): alphabetical-by-office roster of all 17 qualified candidates with each candidate's own filed mailing address, phone, email, and campaign website where provided; matches the county's statewide filing report exactly
  • fontanaca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Fontana -- "Notice of Nominees for Public Office," dated August 18, 2026 and published in the Fontana Herald Newspaper August 28, 2026 (signed by Chief Deputy City Clerk Christina Rudsell, City Elections Official): the certified, randomized ballot order for all five contests, matching the candidate roster exactly
  • fontanaca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Fontana -- "November 3, 2026 Municipal Election" page: lists Mayor, Council District 1, Council District 4, City Treasurer, and City Clerk as the offices on the ballot (noting Council Districts 2 and 3 next go before voters in 2028) and gives the July 13 - August 7, 2026 candidate-nomination period
  • fontanaca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Fontana -- "District Elections" page: the by-district system was adopted in 2017, with the current 4-district map adopted April 12, 2022 after 2020 Census redistricting; states the staggered schedule directly -- Districts 1 and 4 elected November 2022 (up again 2026), Districts 2 and 3 elected November 2024 (up again 2028) -- while Mayor, City Clerk, and City Treasurer remain elected at-large
  • fontanaca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Fontana -- City Clerk Germaine Key's official bio page: appointed to fill a vacancy in March 2022, elected in her own right November 2022, 45 years of government experience including 17 years as a Division Chief with LA County's Department of Children and Family Services
  • joeforfontana.com (opens in a new tab)Joe Alvanez for Fontana City Clerk -- campaign site: an IT/data professional running on a five-point records-modernization platform ("Open Records. Open Government. Open Doors."); notes he previously ran for San Bernardino County Supervisor (District 2) and drew about 13,650 votes (roughly 18%) in that primary
  • fontanaunited.com (opens in a new tab)Fontana United -- coalition campaign site naming a coordinated 5-candidate slate across this cycle's Fontana races: Joz Sida (Mayor), Nubia Diaz (Council District 1), Ben Vasquez (Council District 4), Joe Alvanez (City Clerk), and Kamal Namou (City Treasurer); self-describes as "an inclusive alternative" to incumbent leadership with a shared platform opposing warehouse expansion, backing evening meeting times and language access, and supporting police accountability and opposing "federal immigration abuses"

Last updated August 31, 2026.