# Lindsay City Council Compare records and positions simply between Adrian Solis, Denyse Rodriguez, Anita Gustuson, or Stephanie Velasquez for Lindsay City Council at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of Lindsay's five at-large City Council seats. Lindsay is a Tulare County city. They vote on the budget, land use, zoning, and city ordinances. The term is four years. Lindsay's Mayor is directly elected by voters, not chosen by the Council. The Mayor's seat is not on this ballot. Only two open, non-mayoral Council seats are on this ballot. - Jurisdiction: City of Lindsay - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Seats: 2 - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/lindsay-council - 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: September 1, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 87 out of 100 (Strong), across 12 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Adrian Solis** - **Denyse Rodriguez** - **Anita Gustuson** — Retired Finance Assistant - **Stephanie Velasquez** — Community Services Supervisor A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Four candidates are running for two at-large seats on Lindsay's City Council. They are Anita Gustuson, Denyse Rodriguez, Adrian Solis, and Stephanie Velasquez. Both incumbents whose terms expire this cycle did not file for reelection. They are Yolanda Flores and Rosaena Sanchez. So both seats are open. This person would hold one of five at-large seats on the City Council of Lindsay, a Tulare County city of 12,659 residents (2020 Census), incorporated in 1910. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land-use decisions for a council-manager government with an appointed City Manager running day-to-day operations. The term is four years. Voters may vote for up to two candidates, and the top two vote-getters win outright -- no runoff. Unlike some neighboring Tulare County cities (Porterville, Dinuba), Lindsay's Mayor is directly elected by voters rather than chosen by the Council -- but the Mayor's seat, currently held by Misty Villarreal on a term running through 2028, is not on this ballot; only the two open, non-mayoral Council seats are. Both seats up this cycle are open. The city's own site names Yolanda Flores and Rosaena Sanchez as the two sitting Councilmembers whose terms expire in November 2026, and the county's own candidate-filing document independently confirms them as this seat's "Elected" incumbents -- but neither filed to keep her seat, so all four candidates are running for seats with no incumbent advantage. This is a genuinely contested, four-candidate race for two seats, not a case where too few candidates filed to require a ballot at all. ## Anita Gustuson Gustuson's filed ballot designation is "Retired Finance Assistant." She qualified for the ballot on August 4, 2026. That was the earliest of the four candidates. A Sun-Gazette story from March 2025 corroborates her background. The Lindsay City Council appointed her to its Economic Development Committee that year. Her own application is quoted in the story. It describes her as a longtime Lindsay resident. She has over 25 years of experience in procurement and city operations. She is now retired from the City of Porterville's finance department. That matches her ballot designation. She holds an Associate of Arts degree and a paralegal certificate. She is a graduate of the Leadership Lindsay civic-training program. She has worked with the Lindsay Chamber of Commerce on Main Street revitalization. There is no campaign website or other news coverage of her candidacy. **Strengths:** 25-plus years of municipal finance and procurement experience. She also has recent, checkable Lindsay civic engagement through her 2025 EDC appointment. **Trade-offs:** Her committee background is with Porterville's city government, not Lindsay's. There is no stated Council platform beyond her EDC application. **Keep in mind:** No financial figures are asserted for her campaign. See the financial-info note below. ## Denyse Rodriguez Rodriguez's ballot filing carries no ballot designation. She qualified for the ballot on August 7, 2026. That was the last day of the filing period. Two separate Sun-Gazette stories from 2022 and 2024 confirm her identity and community involvement. In 2022 she founded "Restoring Your Community," a scholarship fund for Lindsay High School seniors. It was funded partly through the Lindsay Rib Cook-off and partly by selling homemade menudo. It gave out seven scholarships that year. In 2024 she is named and quoted as an organizer of the Rib Cook-off itself. There is no prior elected or appointed city role for her. There is also no campaign website or stated platform for her Council run. **Strengths:** A multi-year, independently reported record of local charitable fundraising in Lindsay. She also organized student scholarships. The local paper named and quoted her on two separate occasions. **Trade-offs:** She has no prior elected or appointed city government role. There is no stated platform or campaign material specific to her Council run. Nothing turns up beyond her community-fundraising work. **Keep in mind:** Her filing carries no ballot designation. So she chose not to list an occupation on the ballot. Nothing fills that gap beyond her scholarship fund and Rib Cook-off work. ## Adrian Solis Solis's ballot filing carries no ballot designation. They qualified for the ballot on August 7, 2026. A Sun-Gazette general-election roundup from August 2024 confirms they ran once before. They ran for a Lindsay Council seat that cycle. They were one of five candidates for three open seats. They did not win. They lost to Adriana Nave, Joe Soria, and Misty Villarreal. All three are now sitting councilmembers. Beyond that prior run, there is no independent biography, occupation, campaign website, or stated platform for them. **Strengths:** This is a second run at a Lindsay Council seat. The 2024 field Solis ran in produced the city's current Council. That suggests sustained interest in serving. **Trade-offs:** Their 2024 run was unsuccessful. There is no independent coverage of what they ran on then or now. Their occupation is not confirmed. **Keep in mind:** Their filing carries no ballot designation. So voters get no stated occupation from the ballot itself. Nothing else substitutes for it. ## Stephanie Velasquez Velasquez's filed ballot designation is "Community Services Supervisor." They qualified for the ballot on August 7, 2026. A Sun-Gazette story from January 2026 corroborates their identity. It quotes "Stephanie Velasquez, recreation supervisor." They were discussing plans to bring a personal trainer to the city's Wellness Center. That title and context match their ballot designation. It indicates they work in the City of Lindsay's own recreation or community-services operations. There is no campaign website or other news coverage of their Council run. **Strengths:** An apparent inside view of city recreation and community-services operations. A named, quoted news mention from earlier this year backs it up. **Trade-offs:** It is not confirmed whether Velasquez still holds that staff role. Nor is it clear how the role would interact with a Council seat. There is no stated Council platform. **Keep in mind:** No financial figures are asserted for their campaign. See the financial-info note below. ## Sources 1. [Tulare County Elections -- official "Contest/Candidate Proof List" (report CFMR001) for the November 3, 2026 General Election, independently re-downloaded via direct curl and re-extracted with pypdf for this shard: within the City of Lindsay's own contests, exactly one appears -- "Member, City Council," Vote For 2, ON BALLOT, with 4 qualified candidates -- Anita Gustuson ("Retired Finance Assistant"), Denyse Rodriguez (no ballot designation), Adrian Solis (no ballot designation), and Stephanie Velasquez ("Community Services Supervisor"); sitting incumbents Yolanda Flores and Rosaena Sanchez are named as this seat's two "Elected" officeholders but do not appear among the qualified candidates -- no other City of Lindsay contest appears anywhere in the 63-page document.](https://tc-web.widen.net/s/sgnr5sgmjc/novgenuocl) 2. [City of Lindsay -- its own City Council page (lindsay.ca.us): describes a Council-Manager government with five members elected at-large (not by district), the Mayor elected by voters at-large rather than chosen by the Council; names the current roster -- Mayor Misty Villarreal and Mayor Pro Tem Joe Soria (both elected 2024, terms 2024-2028) and Councilmembers Adriana Nave (elected 2024, term 2024-2028), Yolanda Flores (elected 2022, term 2022-2026), and Rosaena Sanchez (elected 2022, term 2022-2026) -- confirming Flores's and Sanchez's seats are the two expiring in November 2026.](https://www.lindsay.ca.us/citycouncil/page/city-council) 3. [City of Lindsay -- its own City Clerk / Elections pages (lindsay.ca.us): state the city contracts with the Tulare County Registrar of Voters to administer elections mechanics, and that the City Clerk's Office directly handles FPPC filings, including statements of economic interest and campaign-disclosure statements -- no online disclosure portal (NetFile or otherwise) is named or linked anywhere on the site.](https://www.lindsay.ca.us/city-clerk/page/elections) 4. [The Sun-Gazette (Tulare County's weekly newspaper) -- "Local candidate filing period open through Aug. 7" (July 13, 2026): its county-wide list of November 2026 city council seats up for election lists "Lindsay: At-large, 2 seats" -- independently matching the county's own Contest/Candidate Proof List for Lindsay's Vote-For-2 contest.](https://thesungazette.com/article/news/2026/07/13/local-candidate-filing-period-open-through-aug-7/) 5. [Wikipedia -- "Lindsay, California": used narrowly for the city's 2020 Census population (12,659) and its February 28, 1910 incorporation date; its "Local government" section also independently states the Mayor is "last elected" (i.e. directly elected by voters, not Council-selected) and names the same current officeholders as the city's own site -- Mayor Misty Villarreal, Mayor Pro Tem Yolanda Flores per this older listing (the city's own page shows a subsequently updated Mayor Pro Tem, Joe Soria), Adriana Nave, Joe Soria, and Rosaena Sanchez.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay,_California) 6. [The Sun-Gazette -- "Gustuson, Cerros join Lindsay's EDC" (Karis Caddell, March 3, 2025): the Lindsay City Council appointed Anita Gustuson to its Economic Development Committee; per her own application cited in the story, she is a longtime Lindsay resident with over 25 years of experience in procurement and city operations, now retired from the City of Porterville's finance department -- independently consistent with her "Retired Finance Assistant" ballot designation -- holds an Associate of Arts degree and a paralegal certificate, is a graduate of the Leadership Lindsay program, and has worked on Main Street revitalization with the Lindsay Chamber of Commerce.](https://thesungazette.com/article/news/2025/03/03/gustuson-cerros-join-lindsays-edc/) 7. [The Sun-Gazette -- "Denyse Rodrigues \[sic\] gives back to Lindsay's high school students through scholarships and financial mentorship" (August 17, 2022): reports that Denyse Rodriguez founded "Restoring Your Community," a scholarship fund for Lindsay High School seniors, raising money partly through the Lindsay Rib Cook-off and partly by selling homemade menudo; gave out seven scholarships that year; quotes her on her own motivation, inspired in part by her own experience with student-loan debt.](https://thesungazette.com/article/education/2022/08/17/cooking-up-charity-with-lindsay-locals-initiative/) 8. [The Sun-Gazette -- "Lindsay heats up: 14th annual Rib Cook-off" (October 11, 2024): quotes and names Denyse Rodriguez as an organizer of the Lindsay Rib Cook-off, an annual barbecue-and- charity fundraiser, independently corroborating her identity and long-running community involvement in Lindsay.](https://thesungazette.com/article/news/2024/10/11/lindsay-heats-up-14th-annual-rib-cookoff/) 9. [The Sun-Gazette -- "ELECTION 2024: What locals can expect on their November ballots" (August 26, 2024): its Lindsay City Council entry lists "3 Seats; Elected At-Large: Adriana Nave, Ramiro Serna,* Adrian Solis, Joe Soria, Misty Villarreal*" -- independently confirming Adrian Solis (this cycle's candidate) ran unsuccessfully for a Lindsay Council seat in 2024, losing to Nave, Soria, and Villarreal, all three of whom are now sitting councilmembers per the city's own current roster.](https://thesungazette.com/article/news/2024/08/26/election-2024-what-locals-can-expect-on-their-november-ballots/) 10. [The Sun-Gazette -- "City shares updates for the Lindsay Wellness Center" (Allie Benegar, January 28, 2026): quotes "Stephanie Velasquez, recreation supervisor," discussing plans to bring a personal trainer to the city's Wellness Center -- independently confirming her identity and consistent with her "Community Services Supervisor" ballot designation.](https://thesungazette.com/article/news/2026/01/28/city-shares-updates-for-the-lindsay-wellness-center/) 11. [This dataset's own documented record of a dedicated, unsuccessful attempt to retrieve campaign-finance filings for all four Lindsay City Council candidates: California's Cal-Access filer search (cal-access.sos.ca.gov) returned only an Incapsula bot-verification challenge shell for every query attempted this session ("Anita Gustuson," "Denyse Rodriguez," "Adrian Solis," "Stephanie Velasquez"), never the underlying results. Documents the absence of a reachable financial- disclosure source for these four candidates, not any of their actual finances.](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Misc/filerSearch.aspx?SEARCH=Gustuson) 12. [A negative-result access attempt: a direct request to NetFile's public campaign-disclosure portal for a Lindsay agency alias (netfile.com/public/LIND/campaign) loads (HTTP 200), but a direct HTML inspection shows only NetFile's generic, client-side-rendered single-page-application shell with no static filer data -- the same JS-gated pattern documented elsewhere in this dataset for NetFile-hosted portals, and consistent with the city's own Elections page naming no online disclosure portal at all. Documents the absence of a reachable financial-disclosure source, not any candidate's actual finances.](https://netfile.com/public/LIND/campaign) ## The rest of the ballot Lindsay City Council 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. Vote or Else builds the full list for any California address and breaks down each contest the way this page does, with no account and without storing the address: https://voteorelse.com/ ## How to cite this page Vote or Else, "Lindsay City Council — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/lindsay-council (sources last retrieved September 1, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. Coverage is updated as the race develops, so quote it with its retrieval date.