# La Verne City Council, District 4

Tim Hepburn is running uncontested for La Verne City Council, District 4. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat on La Verne's 5-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use.

- Jurisdiction: City of La Verne
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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## On the ballot

- **Tim Hepburn** — Incumbent

A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot.

Only one candidate qualified for this seat. Incumbent Tim Hepburn, the council's current mayor and a small-business owner with more than 11 years on the council, appears unopposed for another term — so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome.

This person holds the District 4 seat on La Verne's 5-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land-use decisions. The term is four years. The council chooses one of its own to serve as mayor, a role that presides over meetings and represents the city publicly but carries no extra vote.

With no opponent, the useful question is not who to choose but what the officeholder has done and what to watch next. Hepburn frames their 11-plus years on the council as continuity — listening to residents and employees, and working through this cycle's Measure GG paramedic-fee debate.

## Tim Hepburn

Timothy J. Hepburn is the incumbent and the council's current mayor, a small-business owner who has served on the council for more than 11 years. They're running on continuing to respond to resident and employee concerns — transparency, fiscal responsibility, and living conditions in the city's mobile-home communities among them. They also hold a long list of regional committee delegate roles, from transit to county sanitation. They are unopposed, so no vote is needed to keep them in office.

**Strengths:** More than 11 years of continuous council service, including a current term as the council's chosen mayor.

**Trade-offs:** Running unopposed means Hepburn's record faces no organized public counter-argument this cycle.

**Keep in mind:** They also carry a long list of regional committee assignments — from the Gold Line Phase 2 committee to the county sanitation district — that shape how much time a fifth term leaves for anything new.

## Sources

1. [City of La Verne — November 2026 General Municipal Election (qualified candidates for City Council Districts 1, 3, and 4)](https://www.laverneca.gov/603/November-2026-General-Municipal-Election)
2. [City of La Verne — 2026 Election Records (City Clerk public document portal: each candidate's filed Affidavit of Nominee, Ballot Designation Worksheet, Candidate's Statement, and FPPC campaign-finance forms)](https://portal.laserfiche.com/Portal/Browse.aspx?id=160339&repo=r-1fb4295f)
3. [City of La Verne — City Council (official directory: mayor, mayor pro tem, and councilmembers by district, with occupation)](https://www.laverneca.gov/351/City-Council)
4. [La Verne Daily — 2026 Local Elections for La Verne, California (candidate roster by district, sourced to the city clerk)](https://www.lavernedaily.org/elections26/)

## The rest of the ballot

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