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City of Mount Shasta · Statewide General Election

Mount Shasta City Council

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This person would hold one of Mount Shasta's two City Council seats up this cycle, for a 4-year term running Dec. 4, 2026 - Dec. 6, 2030: city ordinances, the budget, and land use in a small city at the base of Mt. Shasta (incorporated May 31, 1905; population about 3,223 as of the 2020 Census). Neither sitting incumbent -- Jeffery Collings or John Redmond, per Siskiyou County's own pre-filing roster -- refiled for reelection, so all five qualified candidates are newcomers to the seat. Mount Shasta does not separately elect a Mayor: per Wikipedia, 'the mayor and mayor pro tempore are elected each year from the five council members and serve a one-year term,' so whoever wins one of these two seats could later be chosen by their Council colleagues to serve a one-year term as Mayor or Mayor Pro Tem, but that is a separate, later, internal Council vote -- not something decided on this ballot.

Two of Mount Shasta's City Council seats are up this cycle, and five candidates filed for them: Roslyn McCoy, Wendy A. Warnick, Vicki Barr, Kenji Guy Dorsey-Imabori, and Tim Stearns. With five candidates for two seats, this is a genuinely contested race that goes to the ballot. Notably, neither sitting incumbent refiled -- so this is a wide-open race with no incumbent among the five.

This person would hold one of Mount Shasta's City Council seats for a 4-year term running Dec. 4, 2026 - Dec. 6, 2030: city ordinances, the budget, and land use in a small city at the base of Mt. Shasta (incorporated May 31, 1905; population about 3,223 as of the 2020 Census). Mount Shasta does not separately elect a Mayor -- per Wikipedia, the mayor and mayor pro tempore are chosen each year from among the five sitting council members, serving one-year terms. So a winner here could later be selected by their own Council colleagues to serve a term as Mayor or Mayor Pro Tem, but that's a separate, internal vote that happens after this election, not a choice being made on this ballot.

Siskiyou County's own pre-filing planning document names the two outgoing incumbents as Jeffery Collings and John Redmond -- and neither appears among the five qualified candidates on the county's later, final certified list. That's a genuinely open race in a way many small-city council contests in this dataset aren't: every one of the five names on the ballot would be new to the seat, regardless of who wins.

No official City of Mount Shasta website could be reached this pass to independently confirm details beyond the county's own documents: ci.mt-shasta.ca.us (the city's historical domain) failed to resolve entirely, and mtshastaca.gov returned an access-denied response on every page tried, including its own homepage -- consistent with a bot-blocking firewall rather than the site being down, but neither outcome yielded readable content. Ballotpedia's Mount Shasta pages were reachable but returned no usable content on this race. Local outlets (siskiyou.news, Siskiyou Daily News) were also unreachable this pass.

The county's two documents agree on the essential shape of this contest -- two seats, five candidates, a 4-year full term -- but neither states Mount Shasta's total Council size beyond the five-member figure implied by Wikipedia's mayor-selection description, nor gives any detail on ward or at-large structure. Nothing in either document suggests this seat is anything other than an at-large citywide seat, consistent with every other city and town on the same countywide candidate list.

Roslyn McCoy

Roslyn McCoy is a non-incumbent candidate for Mount Shasta City Council, filed with no ballot designation. No occupation, platform, or civic background for her was found on any county or city source, in local news, or in a general web search this pass.

Strengths

None independently confirmed beyond her status as a qualified candidate on the county's certified list.

Trade-offs

No platform, civic background, occupation, or news coverage was found for her 2026 candidacy -- she filed with no ballot designation at all.

Keep in mind

A bare public record is the norm in this race, not a red flag specific to her -- all five candidates in this contest have an equally thin one.

Wendy A. Warnick

Wendy A. Warnick is a non-incumbent candidate for Mount Shasta City Council, running under the ballot designation "Business Consultant." No further occupation details, platform, or civic background for her were found on any county or city source, in local news, or in a general web search this pass.

Strengths

None independently confirmed beyond her filed "Business Consultant" designation.

Trade-offs

No platform or civic background was found for her 2026 candidacy.

Keep in mind

A bare public record is the norm in this race, not a red flag specific to her -- all five candidates in this contest have an equally thin one.

Vicki Barr

Vicki Barr is a non-incumbent candidate for Mount Shasta City Council, running under the ballot designation "Idaho Licensed Attorney." No further occupation details, platform, or civic background for her were found on any county or city source, in local news, or in a general web search this pass.

Strengths

None independently confirmed beyond her filed "Idaho Licensed Attorney" designation.

Trade-offs

No platform or civic background was found for her 2026 candidacy.

Keep in mind

Her own filed designation names an out-of-state bar license rather than a California one or a local occupation; a bare public record otherwise is the norm in this race, not a red flag specific to her -- all five candidates have an equally thin one.

Kenji Guy Dorsey-Imabori

Kenji Guy Dorsey-Imabori is a non-incumbent candidate for Mount Shasta City Council, running under the ballot designation "Service Manager/Bartender." No further occupation details, platform, or civic background for him were found on any county or city source, in local news, or in a general web search this pass.

Strengths

None independently confirmed beyond his filed "Service Manager/Bartender" designation.

Trade-offs

No platform or civic background was found for his 2026 candidacy.

Keep in mind

A bare public record is the norm in this race, not a red flag specific to him -- all five candidates in this contest have an equally thin one.

Tim Stearns

Tim Stearns is a non-incumbent candidate for Mount Shasta City Council, running under the ballot designation "Civil Lawyer." Siskiyou County's own certified candidate list additionally prints his business address (211 N Mt. Shasta Blvd., Mt. Shasta) and law-firm contact information, consistent with a locally based civil-law practice, but his firm's own website could not be reached this pass (a certificate/hosting mismatch), so no independent bio, practice-area detail, or platform beyond his filed designation and business address was found.

Strengths

A locally based business address is confirmed by the county's own filing, suggesting an established local law practice.

Trade-offs

No platform or civic background beyond that was found for his 2026 candidacy -- his firm's own website could not be reached this pass to independently verify practice areas or background.

Keep in mind

A bare public record is the norm in this race, not a red flag specific to him -- all five candidates in this contest have an equally thin one.

Candidate background for this contest is genuinely thin across all five names, not lopsided: none of the five has an independently verifiable platform or civic record beyond their own filed ballot designation in this pass. Mount Shasta's own city website was unreachable under either domain tried (a dead DNS entry and a WAF-blocked live one), Ballotpedia's coverage returned nothing usable, and siskiyou.news, Siskiyou Daily News, and this session's separate WebSearch tool budget (already exhausted before this jurisdiction's research began) all failed to turn up 2026 Mount Shasta City Council coverage. This reflects genuinely thin local press attention and a genuinely hard-to-reach city web presence, not anything being withheld.

Source review: Strong (80/100) · 4 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

  • siskiyoucounty.gov (opens in a new tab)Siskiyou County Elections -- "Final Siskiyou County Candidate List -- Local Offices Going to Election -- November 3, 2026, General Election" (as of 08/12/2026 4:00pm): names Roslyn McCoy, Wendy A. Warnick (Business Consultant), Vicki Barr (Idaho Licensed Attorney), Kenji Guy Dorsey-Imabori (Service Manager/Bartender), and Tim Stearns (Civil Lawyer) as the five qualified candidates for City of Mt. Shasta City Council's two "Full Term" seats.
  • siskiyoucounty.gov (opens in a new tab)Siskiyou County Elections -- "List of Local Offices to be Elected -- November 3, 2026, General Election": independently corroborates the two-seat Mount Shasta City Council count, names the two outgoing incumbents (Jeffery Collings, John Redmond -- neither of whom refiled, per the later Final Candidate List), and gives the countywide 4-year Full-Term date range (Dec. 4, 2026 - Dec. 6, 2030).
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia, "Mount Shasta, California": used for the May 31, 1905 incorporation date, the 2020 Census population figure (3,223), and its statement that the mayor and mayor pro tempore are elected each year from the five sitting council members rather than separately by voters.
  • siskiyoucounty.gov (opens in a new tab)Siskiyou County Elections page: confirms the county runs no local NetFile-style (or other) searchable campaign-finance portal, directing candidates to the state FPPC generally -- a documented negative result for all five Mount Shasta City Council candidates, not a claim about their actual finances.

Last updated September 2, 2026.