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Mono County Board of Education, Trustee Area 3

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On the ballot

This person would hold one of two seats up this cycle within Trustee Area #3 -- a 3-seat area, the only multi-member area on the 5-member Mono County Board of Education, which sets policy for the Mono County Office of Education -- the office that oversees local school district budgets, runs county-wide special-education and alternative-education programs, and hears expulsion and inter-district-transfer appeals from local school districts. Trustee Area 3's third seat is not up until 2028. A 4-year term.

Two seats within Mono County Office of Education's Trustee Area 3 are up this November, and three candidates qualified: incumbents Dave Titus and Drea Perry, and challenger Lara Kaylor.

Trustee Area 3 is the only multi-member area on the 5-member Mono County Board of Education, which sets policy for the Mono County Office of Education -- the office that oversees local school district budgets, runs county-wide special-education and alternative-education programs, and hears expulsion and inter-district-transfer appeals from local school districts. Area 3 covers the Mammoth Unified School District communities and holds three of the board's five seats; Areas 1 and 2 each hold one. Two winners will be seated this cycle; Area 3's third seat, held by Ruth Hensley, is not up until 2028.

The county's own certified candidate list marks both Titus and Perry as incumbents and Kaylor as a non-incumbent filer, matching the education office's own current board roster, which independently confirms Titus's and Perry's seats both expire in 2026 (Hensley's expires 2028). Winners serve a 4-year term.

Dave Titus

Dave Titus is a sitting Trustee Area 3 board member seeking reelection, per the county's own certified candidate list and the education office's own current board roster. No phone or email is listed for him on the county's candidate list, and no independent biography, campaign site, or news coverage of his time on the board was found this pass -- The Sheet's and Sierra Wave's own site searches for his name returned nothing on point.

Strengths

Sitting incumbency on Trustee Area 3, per both the county's candidate list and the education office's own board roster.

Trade-offs

No independently reachable source -- county site, campaign site, or news profile -- describes his record in office or platform for this pass.

Keep in mind

This dataset found essentially nothing about his tenure beyond the bare fact of his incumbency, an absence found across all three candidates this pass, not a judgment about his service specifically.

Lara Kaylor

Lara Kaylor is challenging for one of Trustee Area 3's two open seats, per the county's own certified candidate list, which lists a phone number ((760) 914-0678) and email (larakaylor@gmail.com) for her but no ballot designation. No independent biography, campaign site, or news coverage of her candidacy was found this pass.

Strengths

None independently confirmed this pass beyond her status as a qualified, contact-listed candidate.

Trade-offs

No campaign website, public statement, ballot designation, or news coverage was found this pass describing her background or platform.

Keep in mind

Beyond her name and contact information on the county's certified record, this dataset found no independent information about her background or priorities -- an absence, not a judgment.

Drea Perry

Drea Perry is a sitting Trustee Area 3 board member seeking reelection, per the county's own certified candidate list and the education office's own current board roster. The county's list gives a phone number ((760) 914-1309) and an email address at the county education office's own domain (dperry@monocoe.org) -- noted here as a sourced fact from the county's record, not confirmation of employment there, which this pass could not independently verify. No independent biography, campaign site, or news coverage of her time on the board was found this pass.

Strengths

Sitting incumbency on Trustee Area 3, per both the county's candidate list and the education office's own board roster.

Trade-offs

No independently reachable source -- county site, campaign site, or news profile -- describes her record in office or platform for this pass.

Keep in mind

This dataset found essentially nothing about her tenure beyond the bare fact of her incumbency and contact information, an absence found across all three candidates this pass, not a judgment about her service specifically.

Source review: Strong (82/100) · 3 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

  • monocounty.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)Mono County Elections Division -- "Local Candidates List for the November 3, 2026 General Election": names incumbents Dave Titus and Drea Perry, and challenger Lara Kaylor, for Mono County Office of Education Board, Trustee Area #3.
  • monocoe.org (opens in a new tab)Mono County Office of Education (monocoe.org) -- "Board of Education": the office's own current trustee roster, showing the 5-member board has only three trustee areas -- Area 3 alone holding three seats -- and that only two of Area 3's three seats (Titus's and Perry's, both expiring 2026) are up this November; the third (Ruth Hensley, expiring 2028) is not.
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)California Secretary of State CAL-ACCESS filer search: returned a fully empty, client-rendered page this pass for all three candidates -- a documented access gap, not evidence about any candidate's actual campaign finances. No Mono County-run local disclosure portal could be located either.

Last updated September 2, 2026.