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City of Grand Terrace · Statewide General Election

Grand Terrace City Council

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

This is one contest. Enter your address to see every race on your November ballot, and keep track of your picks.

On the ballot

This person would hold the one open seat on Grand Terrace's City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside the separately elected Mayor. All four Council seats are elected citywide (at-large) rather than by district, on staggered 4-year terms -- the other three seats aren't up this cycle. The role pays $480 a month (a 60% raise set in 2022) -- a technically part-time, small-city position.

Incumbent Councilmember Doug Wilson faces challenger Jeremy Cecil Briggs for Grand Terrace's one open, at-large City Council seat on the November 3, 2026 ballot. Whoever gets the most votes wins outright -- there is no primary or runoff.

This person would hold the one open seat on Grand Terrace's City Council: city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside the separately elected Mayor. All four Council seats are elected citywide (at-large) rather than by district, on staggered 4-year terms -- the other three seats (currently Michelle Sabino, Jeff Allen, and Matt Brown) aren't up this cycle. The role pays $480 a month (a 60% raise set in 2022) -- a technically part-time, small-city position.

Wilson, first elected to the council in November 2014 and most recently re-elected in 2022, is seeking another term; his current term runs through November 2026. Briggs, whose filed ballot designation is "Transportation & Logistics," has no prior candidacy for Grand Terrace office found in this pass.

Doug Wilson

Doug Wilson is a sitting Grand Terrace Councilmember, first elected in November 2014 and re-elected in 2022; per his own city council bio page, his current term runs through November 2026. His filed ballot designation is "Consultant." He is the council's voting delegate to the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) General Assembly, per the city's own council-appointments roster.

Strengths

A decade of council experience since 2014 -- longer tenure than any other 2026 Grand Terrace candidate; a named regional-body assignment (SCAG voting delegate) per the city's own records.

Trade-offs

No independent news coverage of his record was found; his 2026 campaign filed only a short-form FPPC Form 470, so no itemized contributions or expenditures are on record.

Keep in mind

A short-form filing is consistent with a small-dollar or largely self-funded campaign, though this dataset can't independently confirm which.

Jeremy Cecil Briggs

Jeremy Cecil Briggs is a candidate for Grand Terrace City Council whose filed ballot designation is "Transportation & Logistics." No prior candidacy for Grand Terrace office was found for him in this pass, and no independent news coverage or biography was found beyond his campaign-finance filing.

Strengths

A first-time candidate offers a fresh perspective distinct from an eight-years-plus incumbent's record.

Trade-offs

No independent news coverage, biography, or stated platform was found for him; his 2026 campaign filed only a short-form FPPC Form 470, with no itemized contributions or expenditures on record.

Keep in mind

With no public record of his priorities beyond his ballot designation, this is a vote largely on Wilson's incumbent record versus an unknown challenger, not a head-to-head platform comparison.

Source review: Strong (88/100) · 8 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

  • uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov (opens in a new tab)San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- "Offices Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election" (the same document as sb-offices-up-2026, a different section): the "City of Grand Terrace" section lists exactly two offices, each a 4-year term with no district breakdown -- Mayor (1 seat) and Member, City Council (1 seat).
  • 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, a different section): the "City of Grand Terrace" section (pp. 142-144 of 249) names one qualified 2026 Mayor candidate -- William "Bill" Hussey (flagged Incumbent) -- and two qualified City Council candidates for the one open seat -- Doug Wilson (Incumbent) and Jeremy Cecil Briggs -- each with their filed ballot designation, "Last Updated: 8/28/2026."
  • grandterrace-ca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Grand Terrace -- City Clerk's Elections page: states directly this is "a general law city consisting of five members, one Mayor and four Council Members," all elected at-large to 4-year terms, and that the November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election "will fill the Mayor's seat and one Council seat" -- matching the county's own documents.
  • grandterrace-ca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Grand Terrace -- its own /government overview page: "Grand Terrace is a General Law City incorporated in 1978," corroborating the elections page's general-law-city claim and giving the incorporation year (this pass's official-site source outranks Wikipedia's own prose claim elsewhere that the city is a charter city).
  • grandterrace-ca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Grand Terrace -- City Council roster page: lists the sitting five-member council by title -- Mayor Bill Hussey, Council Member Michelle Sabino, Council Member Doug Wilson, Council Member Jeff Allen, and Council Member Matt Brown -- confirming the other three non-Mayor seats aren't this cycle's open seat.
  • grandterrace-ca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Grand Terrace -- Councilmember Doug Wilson's own council bio page: states his term history directly -- elected Council Member November 2014, re-elected 2022, current term November 2022-November 2026 -- and that he is the council's voting delegate to the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) General Assembly.
  • netfile.com (opens in a new tab)City of Grand Terrace's own city-specific NetFile-hosted public campaign-finance portal (aid=CGT), queried directly by name for all three 2026 candidates via the portal's own QuickNameSearch and filings/byFiler JSON APIs: Hussey's committee filed Form 460s on a regular schedule from 2020 through mid-2024, then filed four consecutive overdue reports (July 2024-June 2026) all on the same day, July 21, 2026 -- one such filing was downloaded directly and found to be a scanned image PDF with no extractable text layer, so no dollar total could be read. Wilson's committee has only a short-form FPPC Form 470 (Feb. 2026) and a Form 501 on file for this cycle; Briggs's committee has only a Form 470 (Aug. 2026). Neither Form 470 itemizes, so no dollar total is on record for either.
  • sbsun.com (opens in a new tab)San Bernardino Sun -- "60% pay increase sets Grand Terrace council salaries at $480 per month": headline and date confirmed via Google News RSS's own structured metadata -- the $480/month figure is itself stated in the headline text; the article body was not read (sbsun.com is not fetchable directly in this pass).

Last updated August 31, 2026.