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Mendocino County Board of Education, Trustee Area 1

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On the ballot

This person sits on the 5-member Mendocino County Board of Education: it sets policy for the County Superintendent of Schools' office, which runs the county's own special-education and alternative-education programs, hears expulsion and inter-district-transfer appeals from local school districts, and decides county-level budget and property matters. A 4-year term.

Mendocino County's Board of Education has a contested race for its Trustee Area 1 seat: incumbent Marilyn Puget, the board's Vice President, faces challenger Craig Perry, whose ballot designation is Accountant.

The winner serves a 4-year term on the county's 5-member Board of Education, which sets policy for the County Superintendent of Schools' office -- the office that runs the county's own special-education and alternative-education programs, hears expulsion and inter-district-transfer appeals from local school districts, and decides county-level budget and property matters.

Puget's sitting incumbency is independently confirmed on the Mendocino County Office of Education's own current board roster and her individual board-member page, which lists her as Board Vice President for Area 1 -- representing Calpella, Hopland, Potter Valley, Redwood Valley, and Talmage/east Ukiah -- with a term ending 2026, consistent with her "incumbent" flag on the county's certified candidate list. Beyond that structural fact, neither candidate drew any independent news coverage this pass: the Mendocino Voice's own site search returned zero results for either name, and Google News RSS surfaced only one unrelated 2025 article about the board's new student representative. No campaign website or public statement was found for either candidate.

Craig Perry

Craig Perry is challenging incumbent Marilyn Puget for the Area 1 seat, filed under the ballot designation "Accountant." Beyond his name, ballot designation, and contact email on the county's own certified candidate list, this dataset found no independently confirmable information about him: a genuine multi-method search -- Bing web search under several phrasings, the Mendocino Voice's own site search, Google News RSS, and a California licensing-board (DCA) search for a CPA license under his name -- returned no usable, confirmable match.

Strengths

An "Accountant" ballot designation, suggesting financial or budget expertise potentially relevant to the board's work.

Trade-offs

No campaign website content, public statement, or news coverage was found this pass to confirm his employer, credentials, or platform.

Keep in mind

Beyond his name, filing date, and ballot designation from the county's own certified record, this dataset found no independent information about his background or priorities -- an absence, not a judgment.

Marilyn Puget

Marilyn Puget is the sitting Area 1 trustee and the board's Vice President, seeking another term under the ballot designation "Incumbent." The Mendocino County Office of Education's own current board roster and her individual board-member page independently confirm her seat -- representing Calpella, Hopland, Potter Valley, Redwood Valley, and Talmage/east Ukiah -- with a term ending 2026. No campaign website, public statement, or news coverage explaining her record or priorities in office was found this pass.

Strengths

Already serving on the board as Vice President, per the county office of education's own roster -- confirmed familiarity with its work and the area it represents.

Trade-offs

No campaign platform, public statement, or news coverage explaining her record or priorities in office was found this pass.

Keep in mind

Beyond her name, filing date, ballot designation, and independently confirmed incumbency and board title, this dataset found no further information about her record or priorities -- an absence, not a judgment.

Source review: Strong (85/100) · 3 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

  • mendocinocounty.gov (opens in a new tab)Mendocino County Elections -- "CANDIDATE LIST - NOVEMBER 3, 2026": names Buffey Wright Bourassa and Eric Hart for Supervisor, 3rd District, and Marilyn Puget (incumbent) and Craig Perry for County Board of Education, Trustee Area 1 -- both races 2 qualified candidates for 1 seat.
  • mcoe.us (opens in a new tab)Mendocino County Office of Education -- "Board of Education" roster and Marilyn Puget's individual board-member page: confirms her sitting incumbency, Board Vice President title, Trustee Area 1's boundary (Calpella, Hopland, Potter Valley, Redwood Valley, Talmage/east Ukiah), and a term ending 2026; independently confirms the board's 5-member, one-per-area structure.
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)Mendocino County's own elections page (HTTP 403, Akamai Bot Manager) and the state's Cal-Access filer search (a client-rendered page returning no extractable content): a documented access block for all four candidates across both contests, not evidence about any candidate's actual campaign finances.

Last updated September 2, 2026.