# Los Altos Hills Town Council

Compare records and positions simply between Indu Kadambi, Jim Waschura, or Jasmeen Pombra for Los Altos Hills Town Council at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of two seats on Los Altos Hills's Town Council. The council has five members. They vote on local land use, the budget, and municipal services. Los Altos Hills is a Santa Clara County hill town of about 8,500 people. The other three council seats are not up this cycle. The Mayor and Vice Mayor titles rotate among council members. They are not elected separately. Only City Council Member is on this year's ballot. The term is four years. All council seats are elected citywide, not by district.

- Jurisdiction: City of Los Altos Hills
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
- Seats: 2
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- Sources last retrieved: August 31, 2026
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## On the ballot

- **Indu Kadambi** — Business Owner
- **Jim Waschura** — Los Altos Hills Planning Commissioner
- **Jasmeen Pombra** — Physician

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

Three candidates are running for Los Altos Hills's two open, at-large Town Council seats on the November 3, 2026 ballot: Indu Kadambi, Jim Waschura, and Jasmeen Pombra. Whoever gets the two highest vote totals wins outright -- there is no primary or runoff.

This person would hold one of two open seats on Los Altos Hills's five-member Town Council. They vote on local land use, the budget, and municipal services in this roughly 8,500-person Santa Clara County hill town, alongside the other three Council seats (not up this cycle). The Mayor and Vice Mayor titles rotate among sitting Council members rather than being separately elected -- only "City Council Member" is on this year's ballot. The term is four years. All Council seats are elected citywide (at-large), not by district.

Both open seats belong to sitting Council members George K. Tyson and Kavita Tankha, whose terms expire December 2026, per the Town's own official councilmember roster. Neither filed for reelection -- the Town's own qualified-candidates list names three candidates, all newcomers to the seat. The other three Council seats (Mayor Rajiv Bhateja, Vice Mayor Linda G. Swan, and Stanley Q. Mok, terms expiring December 2028) aren't up this cycle.

## Indu Kadambi

Indu Kadambi's filed ballot designation is "Business Owner." She filed her candidate intention statement (FPPC Form 501) on August 7, 2026 -- the final day of the regular nomination period. No campaign website, candidate statement, or independent news coverage of her candidacy was found in this pass.

**Strengths:** A business owner's practical, on-the-ground perspective on a small town's economy and permitting process, though this pass could not independently verify which business.

**Trade-offs:** No campaign website, candidate statement, or independent news coverage was found in this pass -- her ballot designation is nearly the whole public record.

**Keep in mind:** Filing on the deadline's final day (Aug. 7) is common and not itself informative -- California's nomination period runs weeks and many candidates use all of it.

## Jim Waschura

Jim Waschura's filed ballot designation is "Los Altos Hills Planning Commissioner," a seat he has held for six years. He has lived in town for 28 years. His own campaign site describes a corporate and engineering background and lays out a platform: public safety and emergency services, efficient town administration, and implementing the town's Housing Element -- via ADU, SB 9, duplex/triplex, and multifamily projects -- to avoid a builder's-remedy lawsuit while protecting the town's semi-rural character. He opposes writing the town's disputed "Green Sheets" development-limits proposal directly into town code, favoring ordinances and objective standards instead. He filed his candidate intention statement on June 22, 2026.

**Strengths:** Six years of current Planning Commission service and specific, stated positions on Housing Element compliance and the Green Sheets proposal, backed by a working campaign site.

**Trade-offs:** His campaign site is the source for his own record and platform; no independent news coverage of his 2026 candidacy was found in this pass to corroborate it.

**Keep in mind:** His opposition to codifying Green Sheets is his own stated position, not this dataset's judgment on the underlying proposal, which this pass did not independently evaluate.

## Jasmeen Pombra

Jasmeen Pombra's filed ballot designation is "Physician." They filed their candidate intention statement on July 28, 2026 -- the first of the three candidates to file, roughly six weeks before the nomination period's regular close. No campaign website, candidate statement, or independent news coverage of their candidacy was found in this pass.

**Strengths:** A physician's clinical perspective on public-health and emergency-services questions, though this pass could not confirm Pombra's specialty or where they practice.

**Trade-offs:** No campaign website, candidate statement, or independent news coverage was found in this pass -- Pombra's ballot designation is nearly the whole public record.

**Keep in mind:** Filing six weeks before the deadline (July 28) is not itself informative -- it says nothing about how contested Pombra's candidacy will be, only that they filed early.

## Review notes

- Jim Waschura's own campaign site (jimwaschura.com), read in full: describes 28 years as a Los Altos Hills resident and six years on the town's Planning Commission, and states a platform of public safety and emergency services, efficient town administration, and implementing the town's Housing Element (via ADU, SB 9, duplex/triplex, and multifamily projects) to avoid a builder's-remedy lawsuit while protecting the town's semi-rural character; states his opposition to writing the disputed "Green Sheets" development-limits proposal directly into town code, favoring ordinances and objective standards instead. may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.

## Sources

1. [Town of Los Altos Hills -- "Who is running for Los Altos Hills City Council?" the Town Clerk's own qualified-candidates list: names all three candidates who filed for the two open City Council seats (Indu Kadambi, Jim Waschura, Jasmeen Pombra), each with filed ballot designation and a phone number or email where provided, and links to each candidate's FPPC Form 700 and Form 501.](https://www.losaltoshills.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/8120/Who-is-running-for-Los-Altos-Hills-City-Council)
2. [Town of Los Altos Hills -- "Election Information" page: states two City Councilmember seats are up for four-year terms in the November 3, 2026 election, and that the nomination period closed 5:00 p.m. Friday, August 7, 2026.](https://www.losaltoshills.ca.gov/421/Election-Information)
3. [Town of Los Altos Hills -- "Meet your Mayor and City Councilmembers" page: names the current five-member Town Council -- Mayor Rajiv Bhateja, Vice Mayor Linda G. Swan, George K. Tyson, Kavita Tankha, and Stanley Q. Mok -- with each member's term-of-office expiration date, confirming Tyson's and Tankha's terms both expire December 2026 and Bhateja's, Swan's, and Mok's all expire December 2028.](https://www.losaltoshills.ca.gov/346/Meet-your-Mayor-and-City-Councilmembers)
4. [Town of Los Altos Hills -- Jasmeen Pombra's own filed FPPC Form 501 (Candidate Intention Statement) for Los Altos Hills City Council Member, date-stamped received by the Town Clerk July 28, 2026 -- the first of the three qualified candidates to file.](https://www.losaltoshills.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/8117/Candidate-Intention-Statement-Jasmeen-Pombra)
5. [Town of Los Altos Hills -- Jim Waschura's own filed FPPC Form 501 (Candidate Intention Statement, filed under his full legal name, James R. Waschura) for Los Altos Hills City Council Member, date-stamped received by the Town Clerk June 22, 2026.](https://www.losaltoshills.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/8118/Candidate-Intention-Statement-Jim-Waschura)
6. [Town of Los Altos Hills -- Indu Kadambi's own filed FPPC Form 501 (Candidate Intention Statement) for Los Altos Hills City Council Member, date-stamped received by the Town Clerk August 7, 2026 -- the final day of the regular nomination period.](https://www.losaltoshills.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/8119/Candidate-Intention-Statement-Indu-Kadambi)
7. [Jim Waschura's own campaign site (jimwaschura.com), read in full: describes 28 years as a Los Altos Hills resident and six years on the town's Planning Commission, and states a platform of public safety and emergency services, efficient town administration, and implementing the town's Housing Element (via ADU, SB 9, duplex/triplex, and multifamily projects) to avoid a builder's-remedy lawsuit while protecting the town's semi-rural character; states his opposition to writing the disputed "Green Sheets" development-limits proposal directly into town code, favoring ordinances and objective standards instead.](https://jimwaschura.com)
8. [Wikipedia's Los Altos Hills, California article: confirms it is an incorporated town (not a city) with a five-member elected Town Council, 2020 census population 8,489, and names Rajiv Bhateja as the current Mayor.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Altos_Hills,_California)
9. [Palo Alto Daily Post -- "A look at who is running for local offices this fall" (Aug. 19, 2026), read in full: states "Two seats up for grabs belonging to George K. Tyson and Kavita Tankha. Jim Waschura and Jasmeen Pombra have filed to run" -- independent, dated confirmation (as of that article's own snapshot, before Indu Kadambi's later Aug. 7 filing) that this is an open-seat race with no incumbent seeking reelection.](https://padailypost.com/2026/08/19/a-look-at-who-is-running-for-local-offices-this-fall/)
10. [Town of Los Altos Hills -- "Campaign Finance Statements" page: lists statement postings back to 2016 but had no 2026 filings posted as of this retrieval, and gives no NetFile or other online portal link -- consistent with a town this small, which may keep local committees on paper with the Town Clerk rather than an online portal.](https://www.losaltoshills.ca.gov/344/Campaign-Finance-Statements)

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