# Reedley City Council, District 5 (Short Term) Dustin Brook Dobbins is running uncontested for Reedley City Council, District 5 (Short Term). Full ballot at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would hold Reedley's District 5 City Council seat. This term runs only through December 2026, a short two-year term. Other Reedley district seats serve the usual four-year term. This seat is short because it was filled earlier by appointment, not election. The job covers city ordinances, the budget, and land use. - Jurisdiction: City of Reedley - 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/reedley-council-5 - 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: 88 out of 100 (Strong), across 5 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Dustin Brook Dobbins** — Loss Prevention Agent A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Only one candidate, Dustin Brook Dobbins, qualified for this short-term seat -- a second filer, Emily J. Medina-Delgado, did not qualify -- so he is unopposed. This person would hold Reedley's District 5 City Council seat. The term runs only through December 2026. That is a short 2-year term. Reedley's other district seats carry the usual 4-year term. The term is shorter because someone now holds the seat by appointment to a vacancy, not by election. The job covers city ordinances, the budget, and land use. Reedley is a Fresno County city of about 25,200 residents. It uses a Council-City Manager form of government. The seat's current holder is Christopher Arriaga. He reached it by appointment to a vacancy. County records show he did not file to run in this election. Two people did file. Only Dustin Brook Dobbins qualified. The county's own Candidate List flags Emily J. Medina-Delgado's filing as "Not Qualified." No further detail on why was found. Because only one candidate qualified, Dobbins is unopposed. His election is a formality. Your vote here does not change the outcome. It is still counted. ## Dustin Brook Dobbins The sole qualified candidate for this short-term seat; his filed occupation is "Loss Prevention Agent," and he did not file a candidate statement for this race. This dataset found no independent biographical detail for him beyond that despite a genuine multi-method search (the city's own site, the Mid Valley Times' own site search, Ballotpedia, Bing web search). **Strengths:** None independently confirmed beyond his filed occupation. **Trade-offs:** No independent reporting, campaign site, or platform statement was found for him; because he is unopposed, this contest carries no comparative choice for voters. **Keep in mind:** See this contest's financial note below. ## Sources 1. [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)](https://www2.fresnocountyca.gov/2850/post/2026NOV/CandidateList.pdf) 2. [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)](https://www2.fresnocountyca.gov/2850/post/2026NOV/Contests%20on%20Ballot%20with%20Qualified%20Candidates.pdf) 3. [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](https://web.archive.org/web/20250302100923/https://reedley.ca.gov/city-council/mayor/) 4. [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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedley,_California) 5. [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](https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Campaign/Candidates/list.aspx?view=certified&session=2025&keyword=Reedley) ## The rest of the ballot Reedley City Council, District 5 (Short Term) 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. Vote or Else builds the full list for any California address and breaks down each contest the way this page does, with no account and without storing the address: https://voteorelse.com/ ## How to cite this page Vote or Else, "Reedley City Council, District 5 (Short Term) — November 3, 2026 California general election," https://voteorelse.com/2026/reedley-council-5 (sources last retrieved September 1, 2026). Link the canonical page above rather than this Markdown file. 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