Review note: Ana Gonzalez's own campaign site (voteanagonzalez.com), self-description attributed in text: describes her as a 30-year Rialto resident (moved to the city at age 9 in 1996), a mother of two, and cites service on the city's Budget Advisory Committee and General Plan Community Advisory Committee, plus chairing the California Transportation Commission's Interagency Equity Advisory Committee -- consistent with, though not naming the specific organization behind, her filed ballot designation "Nonprofit Executive Director." Lists five platform priorities: infrastructure, housing, health and safety, small business, and seniors., Edward Montoya Jr.'s own campaign site (edwardmontoya4rialtocitycouncil.com), self-description attributed in text: describes him as a U.S. Army retired combat veteran (17 years as a Combat Medic and Medical Platoon Sergeant), a paramedic with law-enforcement experience, and founder of the Brotherhood Bridge Foundation, which he describes as having helped thousands of veterans and first responders through crisis intervention and mental-health advocacy; says his children were raised in Rialto and graduated from local schools; and lists, in his own words, "CONFIRE, the California Association of Public Cemeteries, and the Veterans Committee" as bodies he represents the city on -- quoted verbatim rather than independently verified, since that pairing (a fire-dispatch authority alongside a cemetery association) reads as an odd or possibly garbled description on the candidate's own site., and Rafael Trujillo's own campaign site (rafaeltrujillo.com), self-description attributed in text: describes him as a father of two living with his wife Mirella, cites past service on the San Bernardino County Committee on School District Organization, the West Valley Water District, and city parks commissions, and credits himself with expanding first-time-homebuyer housing programs, establishing Fire Station 5, and pandemic relief efforts; does not mention his prior, unsuccessful runs for this office in 2020 and 2024 or for Mayor in 2024 (independently confirmed instead by his own campaign-finance committee history -- see rialto-netfile-2026). may have more bias because they are advocacy voter guides compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.
- uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov (opens in a new tab)San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- "Offices Up for Election, November 3, 2026, General Election" (the same document as sb-offices-up-2026, a different section): the "City of Rialto" section lists exactly one office, a 4-year term -- Member, City Council (2 seats, no district number given).
- uploads.rov.sbcounty.gov (opens in a new tab)San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters -- statewide "Report_CandidateList.pdf" candidate-filing report (the same document as sb-candidate-list-2026, a different section): the "City of Rialto" section (pp. 173-176 of 249) names all nine qualified 2026 City Council candidates for the two open at-large seats -- Edward Montoya Jr. (flagged Incumbent), Ana Gonzalez, Robert "Bobby" Bustamante, Ed Scott (flagged Incumbent), Carl Mayfield, Edward J. Carrillo, Blanca Mondragon, Celina Diaz, and Rafael Trujillo -- each with their filed ballot designation, "Last Updated: 8/28/2026."
- rialtoca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Rialto -- official bilingual "Notice of Election, November 3, 2026," signed by City Clerk Barbara A. McGee: confirms exactly "2 (two) Members" of the City Council, "Full term of 4 (four) years," a July 13-August 7, 2026 nomination period (extendable to August 12 if an incumbent doesn't file), and cites Elections Code section 10229 as the mechanism for filling a seat by appointment if no one or only one person is nominated.
- rialtoca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Rialto -- the City Clerk's own "2026 Candidates List" (updated 8/13/2026), giving the certified ballot order from the California Secretary of State's randomized-alphabet drawing (Aug. 13, 2026) for all nine City Council candidates -- Edward J. Carrillo, Celina Diaz, Ed Scott, Robert "Bobby" Bustamante, Ana Gonzalez, Blanca Mondragon, Edward Montoya Jr., Carl Mayfield, and Rafael Trujillo -- each with their filed ballot designation and voluntarily provided contact/campaign-website information, headed "CANDIDATES FOR CITY COUNCIL MEMBER" with no district breakout for any name.
- rialtoca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Rialto -- "City Council & Elected Officials" page: confirms a five-member elected body (Mayor plus four Council Members), naming Mayor Joe Baca (term expires 2028), Mayor Pro Tem Ed Scott (term expires 2026), and Council Members Andy Carrizales (2028), Karla Perez (2028), and Edward Montoya Jr. (2026) -- exactly matching the two seats up this cycle -- and separately naming Edward J. Carrillo as the city's sitting, separately elected City Treasurer (term expires 2028).
- netfile.com (opens in a new tab)City of Rialto's own city-specific NetFile-hosted public campaign-finance portal (aid=RIAL, distinct from the county-wide aid=SBD portal used elsewhere in this file), queried directly by name for all nine 2026 candidates via its own QuickNameSearch/filings-by-filer JSON API (reverse-engineered from the portal's own downloaded JS bundle), with each available candidate's most recent Form 460 downloaded directly via the portal's own CampaignDocuments/download endpoint. Ed Scott reported $18,800 in total contributions (incl. $5,900 nonmonetary) against $6,284.71 in expenditures for Jan-June 2026, ending cash $34,869.19. Edward Montoya Jr. reported $25,841.25 in contributions against $17,627.21 in expenditures, ending cash $18,456.16, with $1,334.12 in outstanding debt. Ana Gonzalez reported $10,762 in contributions against $2,783.83 in expenditures, ending cash $7,978.17 (her own filed summary page's beginning- and ending-cash figures do not arithmetically reconcile with each other; reported here exactly as filed, not corrected or guessed at). Edward J. Carrillo's committee, formed August 5, 2026, reported $5,000 in contributions and $50 in expenditures for its first (July 1-28, 2026) filing period -- a scanned image PDF with no extractable text layer, read by rendering it to an image and reading the figures directly -- ending cash $4,950. Rafael Trujillo reported $200 in contributions against $282.51 in expenditures for Jan-June 2026, ending cash $736.19. Robert Bustamante's and Blanca Mondragon's 2026 committees have filed only Form 410/501 threshold paperwork, no Form 460 yet; Carl Mayfield and Celina Diaz have no committee registered with the city at all as of this retrieval.
- kvcrnews.org (opens in a new tab)KVCR News -- "Rialto appoints Army veteran and nonprofit leader Edward Montoya Jr. to vacant seat": headline, outlet, and publish date confirmed via Google News RSS's own structured metadata; kvcrnews.org itself was not fetchable directly in this pass, so the article body could not be read or cited for any claim beyond what the headline itself states.
- sbsun.com (opens in a new tab)San Bernardino Sun -- four separate headlines tracking Joe Baca's council-seat vacancy and its filling, confirmed via Google News RSS's own structured metadata (sbsun.com itself was not fetchable directly in this pass, so no article body was read beyond each headline): "Rialto City Council to appoint new member to fill vacancy in January" (Dec. 12, 2024); "Rialto City Council has an opening. Here's how you can apply to fill it" (Dec. 18, 2024); "How the Rialto City Council filled its open seat" (Jan. 8, 2025) -- consistent with and independent of kvcrnews.org's Jan. 9, 2025 report naming Edward Montoya Jr. as the appointee.
- iecn.com (opens in a new tab)Inland Empire Community News (iecn.com, by Manny Sandoval) -- "Mayor Pro-Tem Ed Scott vying for another term on Rialto City Council": read in full. Scott's own quote, "I was first elected into office in 1996," plus his account of a mechanical-engineering degree from Southland University, 32 years as a Rialto resident, and his priorities (public safety, the Rialto Marketplace's economic development, and street paving).
- iecn.com (opens in a new tab)Inland Empire Community News (iecn.com) -- "Rialto Mayor Pro Tem Scott praises bill, named in honor of his late son, that would address illicit distribution of nitrous oxide": read in full. Reports that Scott's son Myles Edward "Eddie" Scott died in 2014 in a car crash a week after graduating high school when the vehicle's driver lost consciousness after inhaling nitrous oxide; that Rialto banned nitrous-oxide sales/distribution in 2017 under Scott's push (reported as a first for a U.S. city); and quotes Scott praising the federal "Myles Edward Scott Act," introduced by Rep. Norma Torres and co-sponsored by Rep. Pete Aguilar.
- voteanagonzalez.com (opens in a new tab)Ana Gonzalez's own campaign site (voteanagonzalez.com), self-description attributed in text: describes her as a 30-year Rialto resident (moved to the city at age 9 in 1996), a mother of two, and cites service on the city's Budget Advisory Committee and General Plan Community Advisory Committee, plus chairing the California Transportation Commission's Interagency Equity Advisory Committee -- consistent with, though not naming the specific organization behind, her filed ballot designation "Nonprofit Executive Director." Lists five platform priorities: infrastructure, housing, health and safety, small business, and seniors.
- iecn.com (opens in a new tab)Two outlets' headlines independently confirming Ana Gonzalez ran for this same office in each of her two prior eligible cycles, confirmed via Google News RSS's own structured metadata (neither article's full body was fetchable in this pass): Inland Empire Community News's "Ana Gonzalez eyes Rialto City Council seat" (Dec. 28, 2018) and the San Bernardino Sun's "Ana Gonzalez, Rialto City Council, 2024 election questionnaire" (Oct. 7, 2024).
- edwardmontoya4rialtocitycouncil.com (opens in a new tab)Edward Montoya Jr.'s own campaign site (edwardmontoya4rialtocitycouncil.com), self-description attributed in text: describes him as a U.S. Army retired combat veteran (17 years as a Combat Medic and Medical Platoon Sergeant), a paramedic with law-enforcement experience, and founder of the Brotherhood Bridge Foundation, which he describes as having helped thousands of veterans and first responders through crisis intervention and mental-health advocacy; says his children were raised in Rialto and graduated from local schools; and lists, in his own words, "CONFIRE, the California Association of Public Cemeteries, and the Veterans Committee" as bodies he represents the city on -- quoted verbatim rather than independently verified, since that pairing (a fire-dispatch authority alongside a cemetery association) reads as an odd or possibly garbled description on the candidate's own site.
- rafaeltrujillo.com (opens in a new tab)Rafael Trujillo's own campaign site (rafaeltrujillo.com), self-description attributed in text: describes him as a father of two living with his wife Mirella, cites past service on the San Bernardino County Committee on School District Organization, the West Valley Water District, and city parks commissions, and credits himself with expanding first-time-homebuyer housing programs, establishing Fire Station 5, and pandemic relief efforts; does not mention his prior, unsuccessful runs for this office in 2020 and 2024 or for Mayor in 2024 (independently confirmed instead by his own campaign-finance committee history -- see rialto-netfile-2026).
Last updated August 31, 2026.
City of Rialto
Rialto City Council
This person would hold one of two open at-large seats on Rialto's City Council. They vote on city laws, the budget, and land use. Rialto is in San Bernardino County and has about 104,000 people. Rialto also has a separately elected Mayor. The term is four years. All four Council seats are elected citywide, not by district. Seats are staggered, so not all are up the same year. The other two seats belong to Andy Carrizales and Karla Perez. Their terms end in 2028, so they are not on this ballot.
Nine candidates are running for Rialto's two open, at-large City Council seats. The election is on November 3, 2026. The two candidates with the most votes win, with no primary or runoff.
This person would hold one of two open seats on Rialto's City Council. They vote on city ordinances, the budget, and land use in this San Bernardino County city of about 104,000, alongside the separately elected Mayor (Joe Baca, elected 2024, not on this ballot). The term is four years. All four Council seats are elected citywide rather than by district, on staggered terms -- the other two seats (Andy Carrizales and Karla Perez, term exp. 2028) aren't up this cycle.
One of the two open seats belongs to Edward Montoya Jr., appointed in January 2025 after Joe Baca's own prior Council seat became vacant when Baca won the Rialto mayoralty that November; Montoya is now running to hold the seat for a full term. The other belongs to Ed Scott, the city's longest-serving candidate in this race -- first elected in 1996, by his own account, and now Mayor Pro Tem.
Edward J. Carrillo
Edward J. Carrillo is Rialto's separately elected City Treasurer. Carrillo's term as Treasurer runs through 2028. Their ballot designation for this council race is "City Treasurer." Their campaign committee formed on August 5, 2026, just before the filing deadline. It reported $5,000 in contributions and $50 in spending, ending with $4,950 in cash. No news coverage of their council campaign was found.
Celina Diaz
Celina Diaz is a candidate for Rialto City Council. Their filed ballot designation is "Human Resources." Diaz has no registered campaign committee, and no news coverage of them was found.
Ed Scott
Ed Scott is Rialto's incumbent Mayor Pro Tem. He says he was first elected to the City Council in 1996. That makes him the longest-serving candidate in this race. He is a retired mechanical engineer from Southland University. A 2018 profile calls him a longtime Rialto resident. He has prioritized public safety, economic development, and street paving. He has pushed for nitrous-oxide regulation since 2014. That year his son, Myles Edward "Eddie" Scott, died in a car crash. The crash happened a week after he graduated high school. The driver had lost consciousness from inhaling nitrous oxide recreationally. Rialto banned nitrous-oxide sales and distribution in 2017 under Scott's push. That was reported as a first for a U.S. city. Scott has since praised the federal "Myles Edward Scott Act" on illicit nitrous-oxide distribution. His 2026 committee reported $18,800 in total contributions, including $5,900 nonmonetary. It reported $6,284.71 in spending for the first half of 2026. It ended with $34,869.19 in cash, the largest war chest in the race.
Robert "Bobby" Bustamante
Robert "Bobby" Bustamante is a candidate for Rialto City Council. Their filed ballot designation is "Iron Worker." Their campaign committee registered in August 2026, but it has not yet filed a financial report. No dollar figures are available for them. No news coverage of them was found.
Ana Gonzalez
Ana Gonzalez has lived in Rialto for 30 years. She moved to the city at age 9 in 1996. She is a mother of two making her third run for this office. News reports confirm earlier Council bids in 2018 and 2024. Her filed ballot designation is "Nonprofit Executive Director." She has served on the city's Budget Advisory Committee. She also served on its General Plan Community Advisory Committee. Per her campaign site, she chairs the California Transportation Commission's Interagency Equity Advisory Committee. Her platform centers on infrastructure, housing, health and safety, small business, and services for seniors. Her 2026 committee reported $10,762 in contributions and $2,783.83 in spending for the first half of 2026. It ended with $7,978.17 in cash. Her own filed summary page's beginning and ending cash figures do not fully match. This is reported here exactly as filed.
Blanca Mondragon
Blanca Mondragon is a candidate for Rialto City Council. Their filed ballot designation is "Community Advocate." Their campaign committee registered on August 31, 2026. It has not yet filed a financial report, so no dollar figures are available. No news coverage of them was found.
Edward Montoya Jr.
Edward Montoya Jr. is Rialto's incumbent Council member. He was appointed in January 2025 to the seat Joe Baca left after winning the Rialto mayoralty. His ballot designation, "Appointed Incumbent," reflects that. He is a retired U.S. Army combat veteran. He served 17 years as a Combat Medic and Medical Platoon Sergeant. He now works as a paramedic. He founded the Brotherhood Bridge Foundation. He says it helps veterans and first responders through crisis intervention. It also offers mental health advocacy. His children were raised in Rialto and graduated from local schools. He represents the city on CONFIRE and the Veterans Committee, per his own site. His site also names "the California Association of Public Cemeteries" in the same sentence. That pairing is unverified and possibly garbled. His 2026 committee reported $25,841.25 in contributions and $17,627.21 in spending for the first half of 2026. It ended with $18,456.16 in cash and $1,334.12 in outstanding debt.
Carl Mayfield
Carl Mayfield is a candidate for Rialto City Council. Their filed ballot designation is "Parole Agent Supervisor." Mayfield has no registered campaign committee, and no news coverage of them was found.
Rafael Trujillo
Rafael Trujillo is a Rialto resident and father of two. He is a repeat candidate for city office. Campaign finance records show he formed a committee for City Council in 2020. He formed one for Mayor in 2024. He formed another for City Council later in 2024. He formed one again for City Council in 2026. That is four runs in three cycles. None have won him the office he sought. His filed ballot designation is "Case Manager/Parent." His campaign site does not mention any of his prior runs. It does list three past board roles. He served on the San Bernardino County Committee on School District Organization. He served on the West Valley Water District. He served on city parks commissions. He cites past work expanding first-time homebuyer housing, establishing Fire Station 5, and pandemic relief. His 2026 committee reported just $200 in contributions. It reported $282.51 in spending for the first half of 2026. It ended with $736.19 in cash, the smallest campaign treasury in the race.
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