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City of Grand Terrace · Statewide General Election

Grand Terrace Mayor

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 Grand Terrace's directly elected, citywide Mayor: presides over City Council meetings and votes as a full member of the 5-person council (Mayor plus four at-large Council Members) that sets city ordinances, the budget, and land use. A 4-year term; day-to-day operations run through an appointed City Manager. Grand Terrace is a general law city, incorporated in 1978.

Only one candidate qualified for Grand Terrace's directly elected Mayor seat. Incumbent Mayor William "Bill" Hussey appears unopposed for another term on the November 3, 2026 ballot -- so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome.

This person is Grand Terrace's directly elected, citywide Mayor: presides over City Council meetings and votes as a full member of the 5-person council (Mayor plus four at-large Council Members) that sets city ordinances, the budget, and land use. A 4-year term; day-to-day operations run through an appointed City Manager. Grand Terrace is a general law city, incorporated in 1978.

With no opponent, the useful question is what Hussey has done in office rather than who to choose. He was previously a Grand Terrace councilmember before winning a two-candidate race for Mayor in November 2022 and being seated as the new Mayor that December, per San Bernardino Sun reporting -- he's now seeking a second term.

William "Bill" Hussey

William "Bill" Hussey is Grand Terrace's incumbent Mayor, filed ballot designation "Mayor Grand Terrace." He previously served as a Grand Terrace councilmember before winning a two-candidate mayoral race in November 2022 -- San Bernardino Sun headlines from that cycle describe him as "a councilman" who "takes lead in mayoral race," and confirm he was seated as the city's new Mayor that December. No independent news coverage of his record specifically as Mayor was found in this pass.

Strengths

Nearly four years as Mayor plus prior council experience; won a real, contested two-candidate race in 2022 rather than an appointment.

Trade-offs

No independent news coverage of his record as Mayor was found; his most recent filings came in a single overdue batch and can't be read for dollar totals.

Keep in mind

An unopposed race means this contest won't change who holds the office -- the value here is understanding who's already there and how they got there, not weighing alternatives.

Source review: Strong (86/100) · 10 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with several source types checked for context.

  • 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.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia -- "Grand Terrace, California": names Bill Hussey as the sitting Mayor and Konrad Bolowich as City Manager, independently corroborating the city's own roster; cited only for names, not for its (contradicted) charter-city claim.
  • 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 -- "New Grand Terrace Mayor Bill Hussey vows to keep 'well-oiled machine oiled'": headline and date confirmed via Google News RSS's own structured metadata; the article body itself could not be read (sbsun.com is not fetchable directly in this pass).
  • sbsun.com (opens in a new tab)San Bernardino Sun -- "Here are the 2 candidates in the Grand Terrace election for mayor": headline and date confirmed via Google News RSS's own structured metadata; the article body itself could not be read (sbsun.com is not fetchable directly in this pass).
  • sbsun.com (opens in a new tab)San Bernardino Sun -- "Grand Terrace councilman takes lead in mayoral race": headline and date confirmed via Google News RSS's own structured metadata -- independent evidence Hussey was a sitting councilman before winning the Mayor's office; the article body itself could not be read (sbsun.com is not fetchable directly in this pass).

Last updated August 31, 2026.