# Hesperia City Council, District 3 Compare records and positions simply between Cameron Gregg, Nando Monarrez, and 1 more for Hesperia City Council, District 3 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold your district's seat on Hesperia's City Council. The council has five members, all elected by district. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. An appointed City Manager runs day-to-day operations. Terms are four years and staggered. Districts 2, 3, and 4 are up this cycle. Districts 1 and 5 are next up in 2028. Hesperia has no separate, citywide elected Mayor. Instead, two council members hold the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem titles. The council picks them from among its own members. - Jurisdiction: City of Hesperia - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/hesperia-council-district-3 - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: August 31, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 74 out of 100 (Mixed), across 6 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Cameron Gregg** — CEO/Business Owner · Incumbent - **Nando Monarrez** — Rancher - **Jacqueline Maheata "Chaplian" Tahauri** — Traffic Control Officer A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Cameron Gregg faces two challengers -- Nando Monarrez and Jacqueline Maheata "Chaplian" Tahauri -- for Hesperia's District 3 council seat on the November 3, 2026 ballot. Whichever candidate gets the most votes wins outright; there is no primary or runoff. This person would hold District 3's seat on Hesperia's City Council. All five members are elected by district. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. An appointed City Manager runs the city day to day. The term is four years. It ends in November 2030. Hesperia elects no separate citywide Mayor. The Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem are two of the five district councilmembers. The council picks them from its own ranks. District 4's Brigit Bennington is Mayor. District 5's Josh Pullen is Mayor Pro Tem. Neither of their seats is on this November's ballot. Gregg's filed ballot designation is "CEO/Business Owner." Monarrez appears on the ballot as "Nando Monarrez." The state's campaign-finance system lists their full legal name, Felisnando Monarrez. Their filed designation is "Rancher." Tahauri's filed designation is "Traffic Control Officer." Nine people are running for Hesperia council seats in 2026. Tahauri is the only one who did not file a candidate statement for the county's ballot pamphlet. ## Cameron Gregg Cameron Gregg is Hesperia's incumbent District 3 councilmember, seeking reelection. Their filed ballot designation is "CEO/Business Owner." A campaign committee under their name has been registered with the state since at least 2018, indicating a council run that cycle as well, though no independent record of their specific record in office was found in this pass. **Strengths:** Sitting incumbent with council experience dating back to at least 2018. **Trade-offs:** No independent news coverage of their time on the council was found in this pass; their committee has filed only a candidate-intention statement, with no financial disclosure. **Keep in mind:** Their "CEO/Business Owner" designation doesn't name the business -- worth asking directly if it matters to you. ## Nando Monarrez Nando Monarrez -- registered with the state's campaign-finance system under the full legal name Felisnando Monarrez -- is a candidate for Hesperia's District 3 council seat. Their filed ballot designation is "Rancher." No further independent record of their occupation, civic involvement, or platform was found in this pass. **Strengths:** None independently confirmed beyond their filed designation. **Trade-offs:** No news coverage, campaign website, or civic-board record was found in this pass; their committee has filed only a candidate-intention statement, with no financial disclosure. **Keep in mind:** The difference between their ballot name and their legally registered name is a common, permitted use of a nickname -- not itself notable. ## Jacqueline Maheata "Chaplian" Tahauri Jacqueline Maheata "Chaplian" Tahauri is a candidate for Hesperia's District 3 council seat. Their filed ballot designation is "Traffic Control Officer." Tahauri is the only one of the nine 2026 Hesperia city council candidates who did not file a candidate statement for the county's official ballot pamphlet, per the county's own certified filing report, and no campaign committee or financial filing for them was found anywhere in the city's NetFile system under any name searched. **Strengths:** None independently confirmed beyond their filed designation. **Trade-offs:** No candidate statement, campaign committee, news coverage, or independent record of any kind was found for them -- the thinnest public record of any 2026 Hesperia council candidate. **Keep in mind:** Not filing a candidate statement or organizing a committee are legal choices, not disqualifying ones -- but together they leave little to independently verify. ## Review notes - No cited source describes the candidates; add descriptive coverage to lift the cap. ## Sources 1. [San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- "Offices Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election": the City of Hesperia section lists exactly three offices -- Member, City Council, Districts 2, 3, and 4 -- each a single seat with a 4-year term, and no Mayor contest.](https://uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov/ROV/Elections/2026/1103/Report_OfficesUpForElection.pdf) 2. [San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- statewide "Report_CandidateList.pdf" candidate-filing report: the City of Hesperia section (pages 144-150) names all nine qualified 2026 candidates across Districts 2, 3, and 4 with their filed ballot designations and incumbency flags, and shows Jacqueline Maheata "Chaplian" Tahauri as the only one of the nine who did not file a candidate statement.](https://uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov/ROV/Elections/2026/1103/Report_CandidateList.pdf) 3. [City of Hesperia -- City Clerk's "Election Information" page: states the nomination period, the three offices up for election (Districts 2, 3, and 4, each a 4-year term ending November 2030), the full key-dates calendar, that "the incumbent candidate in District 4 has not pulled papers, and is not seeking reelection" (hence the 5-day filing extension), and that Hesperia moved from at-large to by-district elections in 2017 with district lines last redrawn April 5, 2022 -- Districts 2, 3, and 4 are up this cycle, Districts 1 and 5 next in 2028.](https://www.hesperiaca.gov/143/Election-Information) 4. [City of Hesperia -- City Clerk's own "Certified List of Candidates, November 3, 2026 General Election": names all nine qualified candidates across Districts 2, 3, and 4 with their filed ballot designations, independently corroborating the county's own candidate-filing report name for name.](https://www.hesperiaca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/32398) 5. [City of Hesperia -- "City Council" page: lists all five current councilmembers by district -- confirming Allison Lee (District 2) and Cameron Gregg (District 3) as sitting incumbents, and that the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem titles belong to District 4's Brigit Bennington and District 5's Josh Pullen respectively, rather than to a separately elected citywide office.](https://www.hesperiaca.gov/133/City-Council) 6. [City of Hesperia's own NetFile-hosted public campaign-finance portal (aid=HES), queried by candidate name for the three District 3 candidates: Cameron Gregg's 2026 committee and Nando Monarrez's committee (registered under his full legal name, Felisnando Monarrez) have each filed only a Form 501, with no itemized Form 460; Jacqueline Maheata "Chaplian" Tahauri has no committee or filing of any kind on record under any name searched.](https://netfile.com/public/HES/campaign) ## The rest of the ballot Hesperia City Council, District 3 is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. 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