# Los Alamitos City Council, District 4 Compare records and positions simply between Shelley Hasselbrink or Joe Hastie for Los Alamitos City Council, District 4 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat on Los Alamitos's City Council. The council has five members. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. An appointed city manager runs day-to-day operations. Los Alamitos does not directly elect a Mayor. Each December, the council elects one of its own members to serve as Mayor. That Mayor serves for the coming year. Not all five council districts are elected in the same year. Only Districts 4 and 5 have terms ending in 2026. Districts 1, 2, and 3 run through November 2028. The term is four years. Members are limited to three terms in a row. - Jurisdiction: City of Los Alamitos - 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/los-alamitos-council-4 - 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: 89 out of 100 (Strong), across 3 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Shelley Hasselbrink** — Councilwoman/Businesswoman · Incumbent - **Joe Hastie** — Maintenance Operations Director A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Shelley Hasselbrink faces challenger Joe Hastie for Los Alamitos City Council District 4. Whichever candidate gets the most votes on November 3 wins outright; there's no runoff. This person holds District 4's seat on Los Alamitos's 5-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use, alongside an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. Los Alamitos does not directly elect a Mayor -- each December the Council elects one of its own members to serve as Mayor for the coming year. Only Districts 4 and 5 have terms expiring in 2026; Districts 1, 2, and 3 run through November 2028. The term is four years, and members are limited to three consecutive terms. Hasselbrink is the sitting District 4 councilmember, first elected in 2014 and now seeking re-election, confirmed by the city's own council roster and her own official biography page. Hastie holds no city office found in this dataset's research. Beyond each candidate's filed occupation and, for Hasselbrink, her city biography page, no independent profile, platform statement, or news coverage was found for Hastie in this pass despite a real, time-boxed search effort -- documented below as a gap, not filled in with speculation. ## Shelley Hasselbrink The sitting District 4 councilmember, first elected in 2014 and now seeking a new term; she has also served as the Council's rotating Mayor in 2017, 2022, and 2025, per the city's own biography page. She holds a B.S. from the University of Redlands and an MBA from Pepperdine, and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in organizational development at Grand Canyon University. Professionally she is Controller for Mason West, a Placentia-based seismic engineering firm, after a 35-year career that included CBS Television, WTC Consulting, and CI Solutions. She sits on the Orange County Fire Authority's Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Budget & Finance Committee (having chaired the board in 2020), represents the city on the Orange County Airport Land Use Commission, and serves on the League of California Cities' Community Services Policy Committee. She founded the Los Alamitos Community Foundation and has previously served as President of the Youth Center Board, a Los Alamitos Youth Baseball board member, and an LATV-3 Commissioner. A resident since 1993. **Strengths:** Twelve years on the council, including three terms as rotating Mayor; regional-agency seats (OC Fire Authority, Airport Land Use Commission); founded the Community Foundation. **Trade-offs:** No platform specific to this campaign was found -- her bio documents her record, not stated priorities for a new term. Long incumbency also means no independent critique of her tenure was found. **Keep in mind:** CAL-ACCESS's filer-search tool was not checked in this pass -- see Financial info. ## Joe Hastie Filed their candidacy under the ballot designation "Maintenance Operations Director." No campaign site, official city biography, or news coverage describing their background or platform could be found in this pass despite a real search effort. **Strengths:** An operations-management background, which could be directly relevant to a council seat's oversight of city facilities and public-works budgeting. **Trade-offs:** No campaign statement or platform was found in this pass, so voters have no confirmed sense of their priorities beyond their listed occupation, and no record of prior office was found. **Keep in mind:** CAL-ACCESS's filer-search tool was not checked in this pass -- see Financial info. ## Sources 1. [OC Registrar of Voters -- Contest/Candidate Proof List, General Election 11/3/2026 -- City of Los Alamitos section (pages 128-130 of 188, downloaded directly and parsed locally with pypdf since a plain fetch returns undecodable PDF stream data): confirms Member City Council District 4 and District 5 as the city's two November 2026 races, each Vote for 1 with 2 qualified candidates, naming incumbents Shelley Hasselbrink (District 4) and Emily Hibard (District 5) and each candidate's filed ballot designation](https://ocvote.gov/fileadmin/user_upload/data/candlog/GEN2026/candlog.pdf) 2. [City of Los Alamitos -- City Council page: confirms the sitting 5-member, district-elected body (Tanya Doby, District 1, Mayor; Gary Loe, District 2; Jordan Nefulda, District 3, Mayor Pro Tem; Shelley Hasselbrink, District 4; Emily Hibard, District 5), that Districts 4 and 5 are the only two with terms ending Nov 2026 (Districts 1-3 run through Nov 2028), 4-year staggered terms with a 3-consecutive-term limit, and that the Mayor is elected annually by the Council from among its own members each December rather than directly by voters](https://www.cityoflosalamitos.org/165/City-Council) 3. [City of Los Alamitos -- Shelley Hasselbrink official council-member biography: first elected 2014, served as Mayor in 2017, 2022, and 2025; Controller for Mason West (seismic engineering firm); OC Fire Authority board/executive/budget-finance committees (Board Chair 2020); founded the Los Alamitos Community Foundation](https://www.cityoflosalamitos.org/320/Shelley-Hasselbrink) ## The rest of the ballot Los Alamitos City Council, District 4 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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