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City of Fontana · Statewide General Election

Fontana City Treasurer

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 oversees the city's cash and investments and reports on Fontana's financial position -- a technical, non-policymaking role. A 4-year term. This is an open seat: incumbent Treasurer Janet Koehler-Brooks did not file for re-election.

City Treasurer is an open seat this cycle: incumbent Janet Koehler-Brooks did not file for re-election. Two candidates are running to succeed her -- Joe Armendarez and Kamal Namou, who is running as part of the five-candidate Fontana United slate. Whichever candidate gets the most votes wins outright; there is no runoff.

Fontana's City Treasurer is directly elected citywide and oversees the city's cash and investments, reporting on its financial position -- a technical, non-policymaking role. A 4-year term.

Neither candidate has held elected office before. Armendarez's filed ballot designation is "Businessowner / Financial Officer"; no independent profile or readable campaign site was found for him in this research pass. Namou, a Deputy Public Defender, is running with the outside-organized Fontana United slate, which also backs candidates for Mayor, City Council Districts 1 and 4, and City Clerk this cycle.

Joe Armendarez

Joe Armendarez is a candidate for Fontana City Treasurer, filing under the ballot designation "Businessowner / Financial Officer." No independent information about his background or platform was found in this research pass beyond his filed ballot designation.

Strengths

His filed ballot designation, "Businessowner / Financial Officer," points toward relevant financial background, though it is self-described and not independently verified.

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.

Kamal Namou

Kamal Namou is a candidate for Fontana City Treasurer, running as part of the Fontana United slate. His filed ballot designation is "Deputy Public Defender"; his own campaign site did not render readable text in this research pass beyond its page title.

Strengths

His filed ballot designation, "Deputy Public Defender," plus running with organized outside campaign support (the Fontana United slate) and its shared platform.

Trade-offs

His own campaign site renders as a blank single-page app under a plain fetch; no independent profile or news coverage was found either.

Keep in mind

The Fontana United platform described elsewhere in this dataset comes from the slate's own site, not an independent evaluation of it or of him individually.

Source review: Strong (89/100) · 6 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" may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide 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
  • 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.