# Rohnert Park City Council, District 5 Compare records and positions simply between Susan Hollingsworth Adams and 2 more for Rohnert Park City Council, District 5 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. Council members vote on Rohnert Park's budget, ordinances, and land use. The city has a five-member Council elected by district. Each seat serves a four-year term. This November's ballot includes District 2 and District 5. This dataset could not confirm how Rohnert Park selects its Mayor. - Jurisdiction: City of Rohnert Park - 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/rohnert-park-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: 85 out of 100 (Strong), across 7 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Susan Hollingsworth Adams** — Incumbent - **Arlene G. Linder** — Retired Artist - **Mauricio Barreto** — Retired Peace Officer A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot. Incumbent Susan Hollingsworth Adams faces two challengers, retired peace officer Mauricio Barreto and retired artist Arlene G. Linder, for Rohnert Park's District 5 council seat. Whichever candidate gets the most votes on November 3 wins the seat outright -- no runoff. Councilmembers vote on Rohnert Park's city budget, ordinances, and land use. The city had 44,390 residents in the 2020 Census. Rohnert Park is a council-manager city in Sonoma County. A professional city manager runs the city day to day. The five-member elected Council sets policy. The city moved from at-large to district Council elections in 2020. It adopted five districts by Ordinance No. 944. Each seat serves a 4-year term. Only Districts 2 and 5 are up this November. When the other three districts next come up could not be confirmed. The county's own candidate roster labels itself not final or official, pending a later posting. But every candidate here qualified before the extended August 12 nomination deadline. The city's own Candidate Resources page confirms the same field. It states that the nomination period is officially closed. So this race can be treated as settled. Santa Rosa posts candidate statements online. Rohnert Park does not do so for this cycle. The city's page says biographical materials and Form 700 filings are available by appointment only, upon request. Voters must ask the City Clerk's office for them. ## Susan Hollingsworth Adams Susan Hollingsworth Adams is Rohnert Park's sitting District 5 councilmember, running for reelection; the county's own candidate list prints their ballot designation simply as "Incumbent." The city's own Meet My City Council page independently confirms them as the sitting District 5 councilmember. No independent news profile, campaign website, or civic-board record was found for them in this pass beyond that officeholder status. **Strengths:** Sitting officeholder status, with a checkable record in the seat and independent confirmation of their current role from the city's own council roster. **Trade-offs:** No independent news coverage or specific council-voting record was found in this pass -- only the county's bare candidate list, their incumbency, and the city's own roster confirmation. **Keep in mind:** Rohnert Park does not post candidate statements online this cycle, so no fuller account of their record in office -- good or bad -- could be checked beyond what's here. ## Mauricio Barreto Mauricio Barreto is challenging incumbent Susan Hollingsworth Adams for District 5; their ballot designation is "Retired Peace Officer." No independently reachable campaign website, news profile, or civic-board record was found for them in this pass beyond that ballot designation. **Strengths:** No independent source describes any record, background, or platform for Barreto beyond their ballot designation and the county's certified candidate list. **Trade-offs:** Voters have no statement, platform, or public record to weigh for them beyond that filing. **Keep in mind:** A thin public profile here reflects what could be found in this pass -- Rohnert Park does not post candidate statements online this cycle -- not a judgment about their candidacy. ## Arlene G. Linder Arlene G. Linder is challenging incumbent Susan Hollingsworth Adams for District 5; their ballot designation is "Retired Artist." No independently reachable campaign website, news profile, or civic-board record was found for them in this pass beyond that ballot designation. **Strengths:** No independent source describes any record, background, or platform for Linder beyond their ballot designation and the county's certified candidate list. **Trade-offs:** Voters have no statement, platform, or public record to weigh for them beyond that filing. **Keep in mind:** A thin public profile here reflects what could be found in this pass -- Rohnert Park does not post candidate statements online this cycle -- not a judgment about their candidacy. ## Sources 1. [Sonoma County Registrar of Voters -- "Local Candidates Who Have Filed," November 3, 2026 General Election: lists exactly two Rohnert Park "CITY CONTESTS" -- City Council Districts 2 and 5, each Elect 1 -- with per-contest candidate name, ballot designation, qualification date, and incumbent flag; carries the page's sitewide "not final or official" disclaimer. Page last updated 8/17/26, unchanged on a live re-check 2026-09-01 after both the regular (Aug. 7) and extended (Aug. 12) nomination deadlines had passed.](https://sonomacounty.gov/administrative-support-and-fiscal-services/registrar-of-voters/elections/november-3-2026-general-election-local-candidates-who-have-filed) 2. [City of Rohnert Park -- own "Candidate Resources" page: independently names the identical six-candidate, two-district field with each candidate's own contact information, and states the nomination period for the November 3, 2026 election "is officially closed." Notes that Form 700 and candidate biographical materials are available "by appointment only, upon request" through the City Clerk's office -- the city does not post candidate statements online for this cycle.](https://www.rpcity.ca.gov/735/Candidate-Resources) 3. [City of Rohnert Park -- own "City Elections" page: states directly that the November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election includes a District 2 and a District 5 City Council seat, each a 4-year term, alongside Measure K (a citywide ballot measure; measures are descoped from display in this dataset).](https://www.rpcity.ca.gov/594/City-Elections) 4. [City of Rohnert Park -- own "By-District Elections Transition" page: confirms the city adopted five City Council districts by Ordinance No. 944 on Feb. 25, 2020, transitioning from at-large elections after seven public hearings; references a staggered "election order of each district" without stating the full six-year rotation schedule.](https://www.rpcity.ca.gov/734/By-District-Elections-Transition) 5. [City of Rohnert Park -- own "Meet My City Council" page: independently confirms Susan Hollingsworth Adams as the sitting District 5 councilmember (corroborating the county roster's incumbent flag) and Emily Sanborn as the city's current Mayor while representing District 2 -- no candidate named Sanborn appears among District 2's three 2026 filers.](https://www.rpcity.ca.gov/810/Meet-My-City-Council) 6. [Wikipedia -- "Rohnert Park, California": used narrowly for the 2020 Census population (44,390) and the city's council-manager government structure -- does not cover the 2026 election.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohnert_Park,_California) 7. [A documented financial-disclosure access gap: Rohnert Park's own "Campaign Statement Filings" page links a SouthTech Hosting "Web Retrieval" portal for statements filed on or after July 17, 2023, and a companion "eCampaign" filer portal. Both load (HTTP 200), but a direct inspection of the served HTML shows an ASP.NET WebForms application driven entirely by client-side __VIEWSTATE/__PostBack controls, with no static candidate or filer data and no URL-parameter or REST-API path this session's fetch tooling could reach (no browser extension connected this pass) -- the same client-side-gated pattern documented elsewhere in this dataset for NetFile-hosted portals, on different vendor infrastructure. No FPPC Form 460, 470, or 501 could be confirmed present or absent for any of the six candidates.](https://www.southtechhosting.com/RohnertParkCity/CampaignDocsWebRetrieval/) ## The rest of the ballot Rohnert Park City Council, District 5 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. 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