City of Roseville · Statewide General Election
Roseville City Council, District 4
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On the ballot
- Rick Bartee — Retired Fire Chief
- Michael Dean Franks — Retired Medical Salesperson
This person would hold the District 2 seat on Roseville's 5-member, district-elected City Council, serving a 4-year term: city ordinances, the budget, and land use for a charter city of about 147,773 residents (2020 Census), the most populous city in Placer County. Roseville runs under a council-manager government, with an appointed City Manager handling day-to-day operations.
Roseville City Council, District 4 is published from the authoritative post-filing candidate roster. Every name below is included because the election authority identified that person as qualified for this ballot.
The office and selection rule are shown in the ballot record. The candidates’ official designations and incumbent status are reproduced only where the election authority supplied them.
Public information is uneven across this field. A shorter profile means the cited sources did not establish more—not that the candidate lacks experience, positions, support, or campaign activity.
Rick Bartee
Rick Bartee is a qualified candidate. The ballot designation is “Retired Fire Chief.” No additional biography or 2026 platform is inferred from unverified namesakes.
Strengths
The candidacy and ballot status are verified by the election authority.
Trade-offs
The available cited record does not support a fuller, independently reported 2026 platform summary.
Keep in mind
This information gap is a limitation of the published sources, not evidence for or against the candidate.
Michael Dean Franks
Michael Dean Franks is a qualified candidate. The ballot designation is “Retired Medical Salesperson.” No additional biography or 2026 platform is inferred from unverified namesakes.
Strengths
The candidacy and ballot status are verified by the election authority.
Trade-offs
The available cited record does not support a fuller, independently reported 2026 platform summary.
Keep in mind
This information gap is a limitation of the published sources, not evidence for or against the candidate.
Source review: Strong (88/100) · 4 cited sources
Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.
- placercountyelections.gov (opens in a new tab)Placer County Elections -- official "Offices to Appear on the Ballot for the November 3, 2026 Gubernatorial Election" PDF: its "City and Town" section lists "City of Roseville -- City Council, District 2 -- 1 seat; District 4 -- 1 seat (upon certification of results)" and no other Roseville city office; transcribed at sources/placer-candidates-nov2026.txt.
- placercountyelections.gov (opens in a new tab)Placer County Elections -- official "Candidate List" (report CFMR009, "November 3 2026 General Election," printed 8/28/2026 11:50:18AM, 29 pages) -- reached live via the "Candidate Watch" link on the county's Current Elections page (see the Loomis entry above for how the county's usual Cloudflare/Akamai block was bypassed). Page 19 names both Roseville contests in full. "CITY OF ROSEVILLE MEMBER OF CITY COUNCIL, DISTRICT 2" (On Ballot: Yes, Vote For: 1): Anne Carpenter ("Businesswoman/Parks Commissioner," filed 8/04/2026) and David Nelson ("Business Owner/Father," filed 8/05/2026) both Qualified; a third filer, Jason J. Daniel, is listed Not Qualified. "CITY OF ROSEVILLE MEMBER OF CITY COUNCIL, DISTRICT 4" (On Ballot: Yes, Vote For: 1): Sergey Terebkov, Not Qualified; Rick Bartee ("Retired Fire Chief") and Michael Dean Franks ("Retired Medical Salesperson"), both Qualified. District 4 is cited here for the structural record but not built this pass -- see local-authoring-queue.md.
- roseville.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)City of Roseville -- own official "Candidate Page" (roseville.ca.gov/city_clerk/elections/candidates_page.php): confirms "Two (2) City Council District seats up for election: Districts 2, and 4," a 4-year term of office, and the July 13 - August 7, 2026 nomination period, independently of the county document.
- en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia, "Roseville, California": used narrowly for the fixed, dated 2020 Census population figure (147,773) and its status as the most populous city in Placer County.
Last updated September 2, 2026.