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City of Hollister — City Treasurer

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On the ballot

This person would serve a 4-year term as Hollister's City Treasurer, elected at-large: oversight of the city's banking, investing, and disbursement functions, alongside the city's Finance Department and City Manager.

Incumbent Treasurer and former Mayor Gordon Machado is being challenged by Jonathan Casey, whom BenitoLink identifies as the husband of former Hollister Mayor Mia Casey.

This person would serve a 4-year term as Hollister's City Treasurer, elected at-large: oversight of the city's banking, investing, and disbursement functions, alongside the city's Finance Department and City Manager. Treasurer is one of only two citywide, at-large offices on this ballot (with Mayor); District 2 and District 3 are elected by their own district's voters only.

Both Treasurer candidates are identified here mainly through their relationship to prior citywide office -- Machado as the sitting Treasurer and a former Mayor, Casey as the husband of a two-time Mayoral candidate -- rather than through any independent record of their own for this specific role. The profiles below describe what's confirmable about each on their own terms.

Gordon Machado

Gordon Machado is the incumbent City Treasurer, elected in 2022, and a former Mayor of Hollister, per BenitoLink's reporting. No further independent record of his current occupation or platform beyond those two prior roles was found in this pass.

Strengths

Sitting incumbent Treasurer with prior citywide experience as a former elected Mayor -- both independently confirmed by BenitoLink and the City's own Council roster.

Trade-offs

No independent record of his specific financial-management decisions as Treasurer, or of any current platform for this term, was found in this pass.

Keep in mind

His campaign-finance record with the City's NetFile portal carries a long-standing local filer ID with no state FPPC number assigned ("N/A") -- consistent with a long-tenured local filer, not itself unusual or a red flag.

Jonathan Casey

Jonathan Casey filed to run for City Treasurer; BenitoLink identifies him as the husband of Mia Casey, a former Hollister Mayor who ran unsuccessfully for that office in 2022 and again in 2024. No independent record of Jonathan Casey's own occupation, platform, or civic background was found in this pass, and unlike every other 2026 Hollister candidate checked this pass except Machado, he has no campaign committee of any kind registered with the City's NetFile portal, despite filing his own FPPC Form 501 with the city on July 24, 2026.

Strengths

None independently confirmed about him specifically; his household has prior familiarity with citywide campaigns through his wife's two runs for Mayor.

Trade-offs

No occupation, platform, or civic background of his own was found, and he has no 2026 campaign committee -- a gap next to every other candidate but the incumbent he's challenging.

Keep in mind

No committee filing is consistent with, but not proof of, a very low-spend campaign; it could also simply mean paperwork not yet completed as of this pass's retrieval.

Source review: Very strong (90/100) · 7 cited sources

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

  • sanbenitocounty-ca-cre.gov (opens in a new tab)San Benito County Department of Elections -- "Final Qualified Candidate List" for the November 3, 2026 General Election (all 75 qualified candidates countywide; retrieved via a real browser session since the county site 403s non-browser clients).
  • hollister.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Hollister -- City Clerk, "Elections" page: the November 3, 2026 election timeline, the four offices on the ballot, each candidate's nomination filing dates, the extended-filing notice for Mayor and District 2, and the city's own statement of its Council-City Manager structure and term lengths.
  • hollister.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Hollister -- "City Council" page: current Mayor, District 1-4 Councilmembers, and City Treasurer, with each one's election/reelection date and term-expiration date.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia, "Hollister, California": used narrowly for the 2020 Census population (41,678), the Aug. 6, 1872 incorporation date, and the city's 2012 shift to a directly elected Mayor (Ignacio Velazquez, its first).
  • benitolink.com (opens in a new tab)BenitoLink -- "Familiar faces seek to return to Hollister city council chambers in general election" (by Noe Magaña): a dedicated preview of Hollister's Nov. 2026 races naming and describing Tim Burns, Christina/Tina Garza, Scott McPhail, Bill Avera, and Dolores Morales, plus the countywide qualified-candidate roster as of Aug. 7-8, 2026.
  • benitolink.com (opens in a new tab)BenitoLink -- "Judge approves release of Hollister council member's police records" (by Noe Magaña): Tim Burns' Oct. 2024 public-records request for Councilmember Rolan Resendiz's police records, the resulting nearly-two-year court fight, the judge's Aug. 27, 2026 release order, and on-the-record quotes from both Burns and Resendiz.
  • public.netfile.com (opens in a new tab)City of Hollister's public campaign-finance portal (NetFile, agency code HOL), queried directly via its public filer-list API: shows a 2026 campaign committee registered for Burns, Avera, Morales, Benjamin, Garza, McPhail, and Chavez (all "Pending" state FPPC IDs except Chavez's, already assigned), a long-standing local filer record for Machado, and no 2026 committee of any kind for Jonathan Casey.

Last updated September 2, 2026.