# Moorpark City Council, District 3 Tom Means is running uncontested for Moorpark City Council, District 3. Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person represents one of Moorpark's four Council districts. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. The Mayor is elected citywide. An appointed city manager runs daily operations. Moorpark switched to district-based Council elections in 2019. The city first used them in the 2020 election. It redrew the district map in 2022. Districts 1 and 3 are up this cycle. Districts 2 and 4 are not up again until 2028. The term is four years. - Jurisdiction: City of Moorpark - 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/moorpark-council-3 - 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: 93 out of 100 (Very strong), across 4 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Tom Means** — Incumbent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Only one candidate qualified for the District 3 council seat: incumbent Tom Means runs unopposed, so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome. This person represents District 3 on Moorpark's five-member City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land-use decisions, alongside a citywide-elected Mayor and an appointed city manager who runs day-to-day operations. Moorpark adopted district-based Council elections in 2019 (first used in the 2020 election) and redrew the district map in 2022 following the 2020 Census; Districts 1 and 3 are up this cycle, while Districts 2 and 4 aren't up again until 2028. The term is four years. No other candidate filed for this seat by the August 7, 2026 deadline. (Moorpark extends the filing period to August 12 for any office a sitting incumbent skips, but that extension didn't apply here since Means, the incumbent, filed on schedule.) District 1, next door on this same ballot, is Moorpark's only genuinely contested council race this cycle. ## Tom Means The incumbent, running unopposed for another term. Their filed ballot designation is simply "Incumbent." Filed their candidacy July 13, 2026 and qualified July 23. **Strengths:** The incumbent, running an active, funded campaign committee — about $5,882 in cash on hand as of mid-2026 — despite facing no opponent. **Trade-offs:** No independent news coverage of their first term's record was found to weigh against their own official ballot designation. **Keep in mind:** Running unopposed means their platform faces no public test this cycle, and this dataset could not confirm one from any reachable source — treat that absence as a research gap, not a comment on Means themselves. ## Sources 1. [Ventura County Clerk-Recorder/Registrar of Voters -- November 3, 2026 General Election Contest/Candidate Proof List, form CFMR001, filtered to on-ballot contests (print timestamp 8/18/2026): within the City section, City of Moorpark shows three contests -- Mayor (1 qualified of 2 filers), City Council District 1 (2 qualified of 3 filers), and City Council District 3 (1 qualified of 1 filer) -- each marked ON BALLOT. A companion off-ballot list (form CFMR001, dated 8/17/2026) carries no City of Moorpark contest at all, confirming none of the three was cancelled or pulled under Elections Code Section 10229](https://clerkrecorder.venturacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/cfmcfmr001_contcanddataproof_08-18-2026-on-ballot-alpha-order-applied.pdf) 2. [City of Moorpark's own Election Information page: names Mayor (at-large, 2-year term, incumbent Chris Enegren), Council District 1 (4-year term, incumbent Renee Delgado), and Council District 3 (4-year term, incumbent Tom Means) as the three offices up Nov. 3, 2026, with a July 13-Aug. 7, 2026 filing period; publishes a candidate-by-candidate filing table with exact dates showing Enegren, Delgado, David Palos, and Means qualified for the ballot, while Steven Righi (Mayor) "did not qualify" and David Delgadillo (District 1) "Did not file" nomination papers](https://www.moorparkca.gov/939/Election-Information) 3. [City of Moorpark's own Campaign Disclosures page, linking each 2026 candidate's actual filed FPPC forms: Chris Enegren's Form 460 (Semi-Annual Statement, 1/1-6/30/2026, committee I.D. 1451506) reports $0 contributions, $0 expenditures, $0 ending cash balance; Tom Means's Form 460 (same period, committee I.D. 1447737, treasurer Joel Price) reports no new contributions, $108 in payments, and a $5,882.30 ending cash balance; Renee Delgado's Form 497 24-hour contribution report (filed 8/17/2026, committee I.D. 1493036) discloses one $2,500 contribution received 8/15/2026 from the Ventura County Deputy Sheriffs Association State PAC, with no 2026 Form 460 yet posted; David Palos has filed only a Form 501 (no committee formed, so no 460/497). PDFs read directly with PyMuPDF](https://www.moorparkca.gov/737/Campaign-Disclosures) 4. [City of Moorpark's own City Council Redistricting page: the city adopted district-based Council elections in 2019 (first used in the 2020 Municipal Election), redrew its four Council districts in 2022 following the 2020 Census (36,326 residents; ideal district size 9,081), and continues to elect the Mayor at-large citywide even under the district system -- explains why only two of the four districts (1 and 3) are up in 2026](https://www.moorparkca.gov/799/City-Council-Redistricting) ## The rest of the ballot Moorpark City Council, District 3 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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