City of Reedley · Statewide General Election

Reedley City Council, District 4

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

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On the ballot

June Bracamontes — Retired City Clerk
Scott Friesen — Incumbent

This person would hold one of Reedley's five district-elected City Council seats: city ordinances, the budget, and land use for this Fresno County city of about 25,200 residents, under a Council-City Manager form of government. A 4-year term. Reedley's Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore currently hold two of the five district seats (District 1 and District 2) rather than a separately elected citywide office -- this cycle's ballot carries no separate Mayor contest -- and the city has no elected City Clerk or City Treasurer either.

Incumbent Scott Friesen faces one challenger, June Bracamontes, for this seat.

Whichever candidate gets the most votes wins -- no runoff or ranked-choice voting is used. This dataset found no independent biographical detail for either candidate beyond their filed occupations, despite a genuine multi-method search (the city's own site, the Mid Valley Times' own site search, Ballotpedia, Bing web search).

Scott Friesen

The incumbent Councilmember for District 4, seeking another term; his filed ballot designation is simply "Incumbent," and he did not file a candidate statement for this race. The city's own archived Council roster page independently confirms he currently holds this seat, first elected to the term ending December 2026. This dataset found no independent biographical detail for him beyond that despite a genuine multi-method search.

Strengths

Direct incumbency, independently confirmed by the city's own archived council roster.

Trade-offs

No independent reporting, campaign site, or platform statement was found for him beyond his role on the Council.

Keep in mind

See this contest's financial note below.

June Bracamontes

A first-time candidate for this council seat; her filed occupation is "Retired City Clerk," and she did not file a candidate statement for this race. This dataset found no independent confirmation of which city or public agency she served as clerk for, or any further biographical detail, despite a genuine multi-method search.

Strengths

A filed background in municipal-government administration ("Retired City Clerk"), though this dataset could not independently confirm which agency.

Trade-offs

No independent reporting, campaign site, or platform statement was found for her.

Keep in mind

See this contest's financial note below.

Source review: Strong (88/100) · 5 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

www2.fresnocountyca.gov (opens in a new tab)Fresno County Clerk/Registrar of Voters -- CFMR009 "Candidate List" for the Nov. 3, 2026 Consolidated Statewide General Election (printed 8/12/2026 5:37:13PM, post-filing-deadline): lists Reedley's three city-section contests -- City Council District 2 (5162), District 4 (5164), and District 5 Short Term (5166) -- with each qualified candidate's filed ballot designation: Eddie Jimenez ("Retired Communications Professional"), Lee Ky ("Manager"), Luis Plaza Muniz ("Real Estate Agent"), Sara M. Montemayor (no ballot designation filed), and Joe Garza ("Retired Police Chief") for District 2; Scott Friesen ("Incumbent") and June Bracamontes ("Retired City Clerk") for District 4; and, for District 5 Short Term, Emily J. Medina-Delgado ("Teacher," flagged Not Qualified) and Dustin Brook Dobbins ("Loss Prevention Agent," Qualified)
www2.fresnocountyca.gov (opens in a new tab)Fresno County Clerk/Registrar of Voters -- CFMR001 "Contest/Candidate Proof List," filtered to Contests on Ballot, for the Nov. 3, 2026 election (printed 8/18/2026 8:39:55AM): independently confirms the same three Reedley contests, each flagged ON BALLOT, and separately names each seat's incumbent-of-record -- Mary L. Fast (District 2, "Elected," did not file for reelection, leaving the seat open with a 5-candidate field), Scott Anthony Friesen (District 4, "Elected," did file and qualify), and Christopher Arriaga (District 5 Short Term, "Appointed to Vacancy," did not himself file; only Dustin Brook Dobbins qualified of two filers)
web.archive.org (opens in a new tab)Wayback Machine snapshot (captured 3/2/2025) of the City of Reedley's own "Mayor & Council" page (the live site returned HTTP 403 for every direct fetch attempted this session): names all five sitting Council members by district and term -- Matthew Tuttle, Mayor, District 1, term 12/2024-12/2028; Mary Fast, Mayor Pro Tempore, District 2, term 12/2022-12/2026; Michael Crutchfield, District 3, term 12/2024-12/2028; Scott Friesen, District 4, term 12/2022-12/2026; and Christopher Arriaga, District 5, term 12/2024-12/2026 -- independently corroborating both the county's incumbent-of-record data and that Reedley's Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore are two of the five district seats rather than a separately elected office
en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia's Reedley, California article: population 25,227 (2020 census), incorporated February 18, 1913; states "Reedley has a Council-City Manager form of municipal government"; its infobox council roster independently matches the city's own archived page
cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)A negative-result campaign-finance search: California's Cal-Access filer search returned only a Distil Networks bot-detection interstitial (a JavaScript challenge page with no usable candidate or committee data) for a direct query against Reedley's 2026 City Council candidates this session -- the same recurring failure mode already documented elsewhere in this dataset (Coalinga, Kerman, Kingsburg, Parlier, Danville, Orinda). Documents the absence of a reachable financial-disclosure source for this contest, not any candidate's actual finances

Last updated September 1, 2026.