Skip to main content

City of Piedmont · Statewide General Election

Piedmont City Council

Draft candidate list — early preview until the state’s official list publishes on August 27, 2026.

This is one contest. Enter your address to see every race on your November ballot, and keep track of your picks.

On the ballot

This person would hold one of three at-large seats up this cycle on Piedmont's 5-member City Council, elected to staggered 4-year terms (max two consecutive terms): city ordinances, the budget, and land use in this roughly 11,000-resident charter city in Alameda County. The Council selects one of its own members to serve as Mayor; day-to-day operations run through an appointed City Administrator.

Five candidates are running for three at-large seats on Piedmont's City Council: incumbent Tom Ramsey and four newcomers -- Nancy Beninati, Sunny Bostrom-Fleming, Adam Hundt, and Bill Reichle.

Piedmont's City Council is a 5-member, entirely at-large body (no districts) elected to staggered 4-year terms, with a limit of two consecutive terms: city ordinances, the budget, and land use in this roughly 11,000-resident charter city in Alameda County. The Council selects one of its own members to serve as Mayor -- it is not a separately elected office -- and an appointed City Administrator runs day-to-day operations.

Ramsey is the only sitting officeholder in the field; the other two seats up this cycle are open, with no returning incumbent on the ballot. The City Clerk's own nomination rules extend the filing period to Aug. 12 only for a seat whose eligible incumbent does not file for reelection by the original Aug. 7 deadline -- consistent with two of the three seats drawing no incumbent.

Nancy A. Beninati

A Supervising Deputy Attorney General with the California Department of Justice, where she has spent more than 25 years in public service, including work on California's Racial and Identity Profiling Act; she also teaches law and public policy at UC Berkeley. In Piedmont, she has served six years on the Civil Service Commission, currently serves on the Recreation Commission, and is a past President of the League of Women Voters of Piedmont, per her own filed candidate statement.

Strengths

Directly relevant civic experience -- six years on Piedmont's Civil Service Commission plus ongoing Recreation Commission service -- ahead of a first run for elected office.

Trade-offs

This dataset found no independent (non-self-authored) reporting on her candidacy or platform beyond her own filed statement.

Keep in mind

Her statement lists broad priorities -- fiscal responsibility, public safety, climate resilience, housing policy -- without committing to specific positions on any; voters weighing specifics should look for that detail elsewhere.

Sunny Bostrom-Fleming

A lifelong Piedmont resident and Piedmont High School graduate who describes her occupation as "Art Curator/Collector," age 80, per her own filed candidate statement; she filed no ballot designation with the county. Her statement centers on two issues: crediting roadway cameras posted at Piedmont's entrances for a police arrest following a March 24, 2026 home-invasion robbery, and decades of advocacy for swim education in Piedmont's schools.

Strengths

A long personal history in Piedmont and two specific, concretely stated priorities -- public-safety cameras and swim education -- rather than a generic platform list.

Trade-offs

This dataset found no independent (non-self-authored) reporting on her candidacy, and she is the only one of the five candidates who filed no ballot designation.

Keep in mind

this dataset's OCR read her first name as "Sonny"; three independent official sources read "Sunny" -- treated as an OCR artifact, not a real discrepancy.

Adam Hundt

A first-time candidate who spent over a decade in business development and operations management at Bay Area technology companies, including eBay and Cisco Systems, before earning a Master of Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University in 2025, where he studied the clean energy transition; he also holds an MBA and an MS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Michigan. His filed ballot designation is "Businessman." He and his wife moved to Piedmont in 2021; his statement centers on implementing the Piedmont Climate Action Plan, including home and building electrification.

Strengths

Graduate training directly relevant to his stated priority (a Master of Public Policy focused on the clean-energy transition) plus a business-operations career.

Trade-offs

A first-time candidate and a more recent Piedmont resident (since 2021) than the other four; this dataset found no independent (non-self-authored) reporting on his candidacy.

Keep in mind

His climate-focused platform is the most specific single-issue focus among the five candidates' statements -- worth weighing against the other four's broader priority lists.

Tom Ramsey

The field's only sitting incumbent, seeking a second term after four years on the City Council preceded by seven years on the Planning Commission, per his own filed candidate statement and the city's own councilmember roster. His filed ballot designation is "Architect/City Councilmember"; he is a practicing architect with more than 30 years leading Bay Area design teams. His statement cites cutting the ribbon on Piedmont's new Police and Fire Dispatch Center and says he is endorsed by his City Council colleagues, the current mayor, and former mayors.

Strengths

A full term of sitting Council experience plus prior Planning Commission service, and endorsements from sitting Council colleagues and both the current and former mayors, per his own statement.

Trade-offs

This dataset found no independent (non-self-authored, non-official) reporting evaluating his first term's record.

Keep in mind

The endorsements he cites are self-reported in his own filed statement; this dataset did not independently verify each one.

Bill Reichle

Recently retired as Assistant Vice Chancellor at UC Berkeley, where he developed strategic plans, budgets, and policy for campus departments he describes as mirroring Piedmont's own -- police, emergency management, facilities, human resources, disability access, sustainability, and capital projects. His filed ballot designation is "Retired University Administrator." He and his wife have lived in Piedmont for 26 years and raised their daughters there; he has served on the boards of the Piedmont Education Foundation, Camp Augusta, and the PHS Boosters.

Strengths

A campus-administration background he frames as directly analogous to city governance, plus 26 years of Piedmont residency and multiple local board positions.

Trade-offs

A first-time candidate for elected office; this dataset found no independent (non-self-authored) reporting on his candidacy.

Keep in mind

His statement frames his UC Berkeley role as directly transferable to city governance; voters can weigh how closely a campus administrative department actually mirrors a small city government's.

Source review: Strong (88/100) · 7 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with several source types checked for context.

  • alamedacountyca.gov (opens in a new tab)Alameda County Registrar of Voters -- official Candidate List system (electionId 260, "General Election - 11/03/2026 (Official)"), queried directly via its own JSON/HTML API (POST /rov_app/candidatelist/) for Piedmont's single City race (categoryId 600, raceId 106, "For Members of City Council, Piedmont," Vote For: 3): Nancy A. Beninati, Sunny Bostrom-Fleming, Adam Hundt, Tom Ramsey, and Bill Reichle. Names ballot designations verbatim as filed: "Supervising Deputy Attorney-General" (Beninati), no ballot designation on file (Bostrom-Fleming), "Businessman" (Hundt), "Architect/City Councilmember" (Ramsey), "Retired University Administrator" (Reichle). The system's own "Incumbent" field reads "N" for all five candidates -- this dataset does not treat that field as reliable and instead confirms incumbency independently against the City of Piedmont's own councilmember roster (see piedmont-clerk-council-2026).
  • piedmont.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Piedmont -- "Meet Your Councilmembers" page: names the five sitting members of the City Council -- Mayor Betsy Smegal Andersen, Vice Mayor Conna McCarthy, and Councilmembers Jennifer Long, Tom Ramsey, and Lorrel Plimier -- the basis for confirming that Ramsey alone, among the five 2026 candidates, is a sitting officeholder.
  • piedmont.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Piedmont -- "Elections" page: states City Council members (and the PUSD Board of Education) are "elected at-large (the City is not divided into districts)"; terms "are 4 years, with a maximum of 2 consecutive terms"; and "Piedmont's mayor is selected by the members of the City Council" rather than separately elected -- structural facts rather than a bare candidate roster.
  • piedmont.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Piedmont's own "vote2026" election page, linking each of the five candidates' official, city-published candidate statement (scanned PDF, filed with and date-stamped by the City Clerk between Jul. 16 and Aug. 12, 2026, OCR'd for this dataset): Nancy Beninati (filed Jul. 16) -- Supervising Deputy Attorney General at the CA DOJ, also teaches law and public policy at UC Berkeley, six years on Piedmont's Civil Service Commission, current Recreation Commission service, past President of the League of Women Voters of Piedmont; Tom Ramsey (filed Jul. 31) -- practicing architect and the sitting incumbent, citing seven prior years on the Planning Commission before four years on Council; Bill Reichle (filed Aug. 3) -- recently retired as UC Berkeley's Assistant Vice Chancellor, served on the boards of the Piedmont Education Foundation, Camp Augusta, and the PHS Boosters; Adam Hundt (filed Aug. 12) -- over a decade in business development and operations at Bay Area tech companies (eBay, Cisco Systems, startups), a 2025 Master of Public Policy from Johns Hopkins, wants to help implement the Piedmont Climate Action Plan; Sunny Bostrom-Fleming (filed Aug. 12) -- lifelong Piedmont resident, self-described "Art Curator/Collector" age 80, whose statement centers on public safety (crediting roadway cameras for a March 24, 2026 home-invasion arrest) and lifelong advocacy for swim education in Piedmont schools; this dataset's OCR pass read her first name as "Sonny," treated as an OCR artifact against two independent official electronic listings (the county's own candidate list and this same city page) that both read "Sunny."
  • piedmontexedra.com (opens in a new tab)The Piedmont Exedra -- "Five in the running for three open City Council seats" (Aug. 21, 2026), read in full: independently names the same five candidates (Ramsey as the field's incumbent, Beninati, Bostrom-Fleming, Hundt, and Reichle as newcomers), matching the county's certified list exactly, and notes the city cancelled a separate school-board election as uncontested; the article defers candidate-by-candidate depth to promised future interviews not yet published as of this dataset's retrieval.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia's Piedmont, California article -- 2020 census population (11,270); incorporated Jan. 31, 1907; became a charter city in 1922-23; used only for population and incorporation-date context, cross-checked against the city's own site for structural and term-limit facts.
  • netfile.com (opens in a new tab)City of Piedmont's own NetFile-hosted public campaign-finance portal (agency code PMT, confirmed via NetFile's own public agency directory), queried directly via its own QuickNameSearch and filings/byCandidate JSON API for all five 2026 candidates, with several name-variant queries for the three who returned nothing. Real finding: as of retrieval, no 2026 committee filing (Form 410/460/470/501) exists for any of the five candidates. Beninati, Hundt, and Reichle have no filer record at all under any name variant searched. Ramsey and Bostrom-Fleming each have a legacy filer record with no 2026 activity: Ramsey's only filings are from his original 2022 campaign (Form 501 and 410 in 2022, a Form 497, and three Form 460s running through Jan. 2023); Bostrom-Fleming's only filings are a Form 501 from 2022 and two Form 470s (the short-form for candidates not anticipating over $2,000 raised or spent), one from 2022 and one from 2024.

Last updated September 1, 2026.