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City of Guadalupe · Statewide General Election

Guadalupe City Treasurer

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On the ballot

This person is Guadalupe's City Treasurer, overseeing the city's cash and investments and reporting on its financial position -- a technical, non-policymaking role. A four-year term.

Only one candidate, Charlene Estabillo, qualified for City Treasurer -- so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome.

Guadalupe's City Treasurer is a directly elected, technical, non-policymaking office serving a four-year term -- responsible for overseeing the city's cash and investments and reporting on its financial position, separate from the Mayor and City Council.

With no opponent, the useful question is not who to choose but what the officeholder's background is. Estabillo already holds this office by council appointment and is now seeking a full four-year term unopposed.

Charlene Estabillo

Charlene Estabillo is the incumbent City Treasurer, appointed to the seat after longtime Treasurer Anna Marie Santillan-Michaud died on June 3, 2025, according to Santa Maria Times reporting. She has been serving the remainder of Santillan-Michaud's term and is now seeking a full four-year term unopposed. This dataset found no campaign website, filed candidate statement, or additional independent news coverage describing her occupation or background beyond this appointment context.

Strengths

Already serving as Treasurer by council appointment since 2025, giving her direct experience in the role ahead of a full term.

Trade-offs

This pass found no independent accounting of her performance since taking office, and no campaign website or statement describing her priorities for a full term.

Keep in mind

Running unopposed, her main accountability mechanism this cycle is public scrutiny of the office's books rather than a contested vote.

Source review: Strong (89/100) · 6 cited sources

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

  • cityofguadalupe.org (opens in a new tab)City of Guadalupe City Clerk -- "November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election" page: states the three offices up (Mayor -- 2-year term; Council Member 1 and Council Member 2 -- 4-year terms; City Treasurer -- 4-year term), the candidate filing period (July 13 - August 7, 2026), and its own "2026 QUALIFIED CANDIDATES" table naming all five candidates by office, printed ballot designation, and whether each filed a candidate statement -- Christina Hernandez (Mayor, "District Representative"), Ariston D. Julian (Mayor, none), Randy L. Altergott (Council Member, none), Robert Diaz (Council Member, none, statement filed), Charlene Estabillo (Treasurer, none)
  • cityofguadalupe.org (opens in a new tab)City of Guadalupe -- "Elected Officials" page: states plainly the Council is a Mayor plus four Council Members, "each City Council member represents the City at large, there are no districts," and that the Mayor serves a two-year term and Council Members a four-year term on a staggered, three-seats-every-two-years cycle; names the sitting Council with terms -- Ariston Julian (Mayor, 2024-2026), Christina Hernandez (Mayor Pro Tem, 2022-2026), Amelia M. Villegas (Councilmember, 2024-2028), Whitney Furness (Councilmember, 2024-2028), Eugene Costa Jr. (Councilmember, 2022-2026) -- and carries each sitting official's own self-authored biography, including Julian's USAF service, Fresno State master's degree, and career at Guadalupe Community Health Centers Inc., and Hernandez's nonprofit work and Guadalupe Lions Club/Comite chair roles
  • santamariatimes.com (opens in a new tab)Santa Maria Times -- "Familiar faces, old rivalries mark SB North County's November ballot" (Aug. 28, 2026 update; citing the county's own qualified-candidate lists after the Aug. 7 filing deadline): "Longtime Guadalupe Mayor Ariston D. Julian, who ran essentially unopposed in 2022 and received 94.5% of the vote, faces City Councilmember Christina Hernandez. Robert Diaz and Randy L. Altergott, unopposed, are the only candidates for the two City Council seats. The treasurer's race also is uncontested, with Charlene Estabillo as the only qualified candidate. She was appointed to the seat after longtime Treasurer Anna Marie Santillan-Michaud died on June 3, 2025... and is now seeking a full term unopposed"
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia -- "Guadalupe, California": used narrowly for the 2020 Census population (8,057) and independent corroboration that Ariston Julian is the sitting Mayor -- does not cover the 2026 election
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS -- a direct fetch of the filer-search page returned an Incapsula bot-challenge page, and this session's separate web-fetch tool returned a blank result page, for each of the five candidates' names queried. Cal-Access's own scope covers only state-level campaign committees in any case, not local city races. Documents an inability to reach a working state financial-disclosure search for any of the five candidates, not a claim about any candidate's actual finances
  • cityofguadalupe.org (opens in a new tab)City of Guadalupe -- "Documents Archive" page, searched in full across every listed category (Bid Packages, Council Agendas, Council Minutes, Employment, Miscellaneous Documents, Oversight Board Agendas, Recreation Commission Agendas, Water Department Documents): no "Campaign Statements" category exists and no filed FPPC disclosure for any of the five 2026 candidates is posted online, unlike Buellton's city site. Documents an absence of a reachable local financial-disclosure filing for any candidate in this shard, not a claim about any candidate's actual finances

Last updated September 1, 2026.