# Ontario City Council, District 3

Compare records and positions simply between Alan Wapner, D'Andre Lampkin, Michael Rios, and 1 more for Ontario City Council, District 3 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold one of Ontario's four district seats on the City Council. Ontario also has a separately elected Mayor. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use. An appointed City Manager handles day to day operations. The term is four years. Terms are staggered, so only two districts are up in any November. Districts 2 and 3 are up this cycle. Districts 1 and 4 are up in 2028.

- Jurisdiction: City of Ontario
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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- Sources last retrieved: October 7, 2026
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## On the ballot

- **Alan Wapner** — Councilman / Retired Policeman · Incumbent
- **D'Andre Lampkin** — Deputy Sheriff / Businessman
- **Michael Rios** — Software Engineer
- **Larry Trinidad** — Registered Nurse

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

Incumbent Alan Wapner, a member of the Ontario City Council for more than 30 years, faces three challengers for the District 3 seat on the November 3, 2026 ballot: D'Andre Lampkin, Michael Rios, and Larry Trinidad. Whoever gets the most votes wins outright; there is no primary or runoff.

This person would hold District 3's seat on Ontario's 4-member City Council. Council members are elected by district. The Mayor is elected on their own by the whole city. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. An appointed City Manager runs the city day to day. The term is four years. Seats are staggered, so only two of the four districts are up in any November. Districts 2 and 3 are up this cycle. Districts 1 and 4 come up in 2028.

The county's candidate filing report does not mark Wapner as an incumbent. It does mark Mayor Leon that way in the Mayor's race. This guide still treats Wapner as District 3's sitting member. His city bio page shows a term running December 2022 to December 2026. Those are the same term dates as Mayor Leon's and councilmember Jim Bowman's, all up this cycle. The December 2022 roll call adopting Ordinance 3224 names him as a sitting councilmember. District candidates must also live in the district they file for. The county's missing mark looks like a data entry slip, not evidence otherwise. It is still a real gap in the official record. No stronger document settles it, so it is stated here plainly.

## Alan Wapner

Alan Wapner has served on the Ontario City Council for more than 30 years (with time away from office earlier in his career). A retired Ontario police sergeant and former Vice President of the Ontario-Montclair School Board, he currently serves as President of the Ontario International Airport Authority and Chair of the Omnitrans Board of Directors, per the city's own biography. His filed ballot designation is "Councilman / Retired Policeman." In his Vote411 questionnaire he describes more than 40 years living in Ontario, a USC degree and a law degree from Whittier, 44 years of work for the city, a past presidency of the Ontario Rotary Club, and volunteer coaching. He credits himself with leading the return of Ontario International Airport to local control, and he describes the arena, sports complex and South Ontario public-safety buildout as products of his vision. His background answer ends mid-sentence.

His three stated priorities are public safety, where he points to his support for the city's own police and fire departments and its fire ambulances; safe and efficient infrastructure, including night road construction in South Ontario and developers paying for new infrastructure before projects proceed; and limiting the effect of development on the community, especially in District 3, where he says he supports jobs but wants no more warehouses unless truck impacts are reduced.

**Strengths:** Three decades on the Council, a retired Ontario police officer, and by his own account the driving force behind returning the airport to local control.

**Trade-offs:** As the longest-serving member he shares responsibility for the city's development record, including the District 3 warehouses he now says should stop.

**Keep in mind:** His airport, arena and police-staffing results are his own account, and his background answer ends mid-sentence. The county list does not mark him "Incumbent"; see the note above.

## D'Andre Lampkin

D'Andre Lampkin is a challenger for District 3, filing under the ballot designation "Deputy Sheriff / Businessman." His own professional site (not a campaign site) describes him as Founder/CEO of Care Staffing Professionals, a healthcare staffing company, and founder of The Lampkin Foundation, a 501(c)(3) human-services organization; it states he grew up in South Central Los Angeles and holds degrees in Criminal Justice Administration and Homeland Security & Emergency Management.

**Strengths:** An established outside career in healthcare staffing and nonprofit work, independent of his candidacy, that voters can look into directly.

**Trade-offs:** No campaign platform for this specific race was found on his site or elsewhere in this pass; financial info could not be retrieved (see note below).

**Keep in mind:** His site is a personal/professional page, not a campaign site -- it doesn't say why he's running or what he'd prioritize on the council.

## Michael Rios

Michael Rios is a challenger for District 3, filing under the ballot designation "Software Engineer." No independent information about their background or platform was found beyond their filed ballot designation.

**Strengths:** None could be documented in this research pass.

**Trade-offs:** No campaign site, news coverage, or independent profile was found beyond the filed ballot designation.

**Keep in mind:** A first-time candidate with no public record yet is not necessarily weaker -- only less documented; weigh the ballot designation on its own.

## Larry Trinidad

Larry Trinidad is a challenger for District 3, filing under the ballot designation "Registered Nurse." His own campaign site describes him as a combat-veteran Army servicemember and a lifelong Ontario resident who has raised three children in the city, running on traffic and infrastructure, "responsible growth and development," and public safety. In his Vote411 questionnaire he describes Army service in Iraq in 2003 and 2004, a master's degree in nursing with a leadership focus, work as a registered nurse, and service as a city Parks and Recreation Commissioner and as a trustee of the West Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District. He also says he coaches youth sports.

His three stated priorities are police and fire staffing, training and equipment; affordability, with a close review of city spending and pushback on rate and fee increases; and control of warehouses and truck traffic, where he says he would oppose new warehouses near homes and schools, press for enforced truck routes on Ontario Ranch Road, and require setbacks, screening and off-peak deliveries.

**Strengths:** Army combat veteran, registered nurse with a leadership-focused master's, and a city commissioner, by his own account, with the most detailed warehouse plan of the challengers.

**Trade-offs:** Adding police and fire resources while resisting fee increases leaves open how the city would pay for both, and his answer names no costs.

**Keep in mind:** His service, nursing career and commission posts are his own account. He has not served on the Council.

## Review notes

- D'Andre Lampkin -- personal/professional site (not a campaign site, but the only independent background found on him): Founder/CEO of Care Staffing Professionals, a healthcare staffing company, and founder of The Lampkin Foundation, a 501(c)(3) human-services organization; degrees in Criminal Justice Administration and Homeland Security & Emergency Management; states he grew up in South Central Los Angeles and was recognized as "California's Law Enforcement Officer of the Year for Community Service" by the American Legion and Larry Trinidad for Ontario City Council District 3 -- campaign site: a combat-veteran Army servicemember, registered nurse, and lifelong Ontario resident who has raised three children in the city; platform priorities are traffic and infrastructure, "responsible growth and development," and public safety may have more bias because they are advocacy voter guides compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.

## Sources

1. [San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- "Offices Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election": lists County Board of Education Areas A, B, and D (under the School category) as the county's only expiring-term seats this cycle -- no Board of Supervisors, row office, or Superior Court seat appears anywhere in the 11-page document](https://uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov/ROV/Elections/2026/1103/Report_OfficesUpForElection.pdf)
2. [San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- statewide "Report_CandidateList.pdf" candidate-filing report (the same document as sb-candidate-list-2026, a different section): within its "City of Ontario" section (pp. 158-163 of 249), three contests appear, each "Number to be elected: 1" -- Mayor (4 candidates: Kevin Kizzee, Nicolo Lalama, Paul Leon \[flagged Incumbent\], Daisy Macias), Member of the City Council District 2 (2 candidates: Ruben Valencia, Stephanie Martinez, neither flagged Incumbent), and District 3 (4 candidates: D'Andre Lampkin, Michael Rios, Larry Trinidad, Alan Wapner, none flagged Incumbent).](https://uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov/ROV/Elections/2026/1103/Report_CandidateList.pdf)
3. [City of Ontario -- City Clerk's municipal-elections page: states directly, "City Council Districts 2 and 3 will be up for election in November 2026, along with the office of Mayor... November 2028: Districts 1 and 4," and that "Residents vote for the City Council candidate representing the district in which they live. The Mayor is elected citywide."](https://www.ontarioca.gov/government/management-services/city-clerk-records-management/municipal-elections)
4. [City of Ontario -- Ordinance No. 3224, "Change the City's Electoral System from At-Large to By-District" (adopted Dec. 20, 2022): establishes 4 single-member City Council districts with an at-large elected Mayor, sets Districts 1 and 4 to first elect by-district in November 2024 and Districts 2 and 3 (with the Mayor) in November 2026, and its own certified adoption roll call reads "AYES: MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS: LEON, WAPNER, BOWMAN AND DORST-PORADA... ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: VALENCIA" -- direct, dated documentation that Wapner and Bowman were both sitting councilmembers as of Dec. 2022.](https://content.ontarioca.gov/sites/default/files/2025-02/O3224%20Change%20the%20City%27s%20Electoral%20System%20from%20at%20Large%20to%20By-District.pdf)
5. [City of Ontario -- "City Council" roster page: names the current 5 members -- Paul S. Leon (Mayor), Debra Porada (Mayor Pro Tem), Alan D. Wapner, Jim W. Bowman, and Daisy Macias -- with no Milhiser or Valencia remaining on the current roster; the page's own general intro paragraph still reads "All Council Members serve at large," stale boilerplate contradicted by this page's own district-specific bio pages for Porada and Macias and by the city's separate municipal-elections and districts-archive pages.](https://www.ontarioca.gov/government/city-council)
6. [City of Ontario -- Council Member Alan D. Wapner's own official bio page: "Current Term December 2022 - December 2026"; over 30 years on the council, a retired Ontario police sergeant, former Vice President of the Ontario-Montclair School Board, President of the Ontario International Airport Authority and Chair of the Omnitrans Board.](https://www.ontarioca.gov/government/city-council/alan-d-wapner)
7. [Larry Trinidad for Ontario City Council District 3 -- campaign site: a combat-veteran Army servicemember, registered nurse, and lifelong Ontario resident who has raised three children in the city; platform priorities are traffic and infrastructure, "responsible growth and development," and public safety.](https://trinidadforontario.com)
8. [D'Andre Lampkin -- personal/professional site (not a campaign site, but the only independent background found on him): Founder/CEO of Care Staffing Professionals, a healthcare staffing company, and founder of The Lampkin Foundation, a 501(c)(3) human-services organization; degrees in Criminal Justice Administration and Homeland Security & Emergency Management; states he grew up in South Central Los Angeles and was recognized as "California's Law Enforcement Officer of the Year for Community Service" by the American Legion.](https://dandrelampkin.com)
9. [San Bernardino County's public NetFile campaign-finance portal (public.netfile.com/pub2/?aid=SBD), queried directly by name via its own QuickNameSearch API for all ten 2026 Ontario candidates: nine names returned no filer (Kizzee, Lalama, Macias, Wapner, Valencia, Martinez, Lampkin, Rios, Trinidad); a "Leon, Paul" filer exists but its filing history (2013 Assembly and Senate runs, a 2016 OMSD school-board run) never includes an Ontario City Council or Mayor filing, treated as very likely a different, same-named person rather than Mayor Paul S. Leon; a decade-old "Valencia 4 City Council 2016" committee surfaced but names no candidate or city and isn't assumed connected to 2026 District 2 candidate Ruben Valencia.](https://public.netfile.com/pub2/?aid=SBD)
10. [League of Women Voters -- Vote411 voter guide, 'City of Ontario City Council Member, District 3' race (statewide All Races list): each candidate's self-submitted ballot designation and campaign contacts, plus answers to the League's questions -- If elected, what are your top 3 priorities?; What background, experience and/or education qualify you for this elected office? Answers on file from Alan Wapner, Larry Trinidad. Capture in data/nov-2026/sources/vote411/ontario-council-district-3.json.](https://www.vote411.org/plan-your-vote)

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