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City of South Lake Tahoe · Statewide General Election

South Lake Tahoe City Treasurer

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On the ballot

This person would be South Lake Tahoe's City Treasurer: an independently elected official (not a Council appointee) responsible for investing city funds, monitoring liquidity and cash flow, maintaining broker/dealer relationships, and providing regular investment reports to the City Council, per the City's own municipal code. A 4-year term. South Lake Tahoe, an El Dorado County general-law city of roughly 21,000 on the south shore of Lake Tahoe, elects its 5-member Council at large, along with a separately elected City Clerk and this City Treasurer seat.

Incumbent David Olivo is running unopposed for re-election as South Lake Tahoe's City Treasurer -- he's the only candidate who qualified.

South Lake Tahoe is a general-law city of roughly 21,000 on the south shore of Lake Tahoe, in El Dorado County. Its City Council has five members, all elected at large (not by district) to four-year staggered terms; three of those seats are also up this cycle. The City Clerk and City Treasurer are each separately elected citywide to their own four-year terms.

The City Treasurer invests the city's funds, monitors cash flow and liquidity, maintains the city's broker/dealer relationships, oversees certain retiree-benefit investment accounts, and reports regularly to the City Council -- a financial-stewardship role, not a policy-making one. Olivo has held the seat since a City Council appointment in December 2009, after the death of the previous Treasurer partway through a term, and has been re-elected to it ever since.

David Olivo

David Olivo is the sitting City Treasurer, seeking another term unopposed. A Certified Public Accountant, he has been a partner in the South Lake Tahoe accounting firm Olivo, Zicko, Klover & Co. CPAs since 1978, is a University of San Francisco graduate, and is licensed as an accountant in both California and Nevada. Before his 2009 appointment to the Treasurer's seat, he had prepared taxes for local nonprofits and been active in the Lake Tahoe Angora Fire Fund, the Tahoe Rim Trail Association, and youth sports.

Strengths

A working CPA with a South Lake Tahoe accounting practice dating to 1978, and 17 years of continuous experience in this specific office since his 2009 appointment.

Trade-offs

Running unopposed, he faces no direct comparison this cycle. No dedicated 2026 profile of Olivo was found, only reporting on his original 2009 appointment.

Keep in mind

Unopposed means this is effectively a vote to confirm him for another term, not a comparison between candidates -- his long record in the office is the relevant question, not a platform or new promises.

Source review: Mixed (79/100) · 6 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with several source types checked for context.

  • cityofslt.gov (opens in a new tab)City of South Lake Tahoe -- official "Elections and Campaign Disclosures" page (live fetch): "Election-November 3, 2026: 3 City Council seats, 1 City Treasurer, 1 City Clerk"; "Five Council Members, elected at large for four-year staggered terms"; its own "List of Qualified Candidates (Updated 08 13 2026, 5:00 p.m.)" names 13 City Council candidates, one City Treasurer candidate (David Olivo), and two City Clerk candidates (Michelle Davis, Brandi Bannister), each with contact information as filed.
  • southtahoenow.com (opens in a new tab)South Tahoe Now -- "Candidate filing extensions announced for some South Lake Tahoe offices" (Paula Peterson, Aug. 8, 2026): the Aug. 7, 2026 County filing deadline was extended to Aug. 12, 5 p.m. for City Council and City Clerk because Mayor Cody Bass and City Clerk Susan Blankenship did not refile; names the same 13 City Council candidates and states "South Lake Tahoe City Treasurer David Olivo is running again and is the sole candidate for the position."
  • tahoedailytribune.com (opens in a new tab)Tahoe Daily Tribune -- "Council appoints Olivo as South Lake Tahoe City Treasurer" (Adam Jensen, Dec. 22, 2009): David Olivo, then 58, a Certified Public Accountant and partner in South Lake Tahoe accounting firm Olivo, Zicko, Klover & Co. CPAs since 1978, was unanimously appointed to fill the balance of the late Stephen Wysong's term. A University of San Francisco graduate, licensed as an accountant in both California and Nevada, he had prepared taxes for local nonprofits and was active in the Lake Tahoe Angora Fire Fund, the Tahoe Rim Trail Association, and youth sports; he told the Council he intended to run for the seat in November 2010.
  • netfile.com (opens in a new tab)A negative-result local campaign-finance check: no NetFile portal is linked from the City's own Elections and Campaign Disclosures page (it names the City Clerk as FPPC filing officer directly instead); a guessed NetFile agency-code fetch (netfile.com/public/SLT/campaign/elections) returned only a bare client-rendered application shell with no server-side content, the same access gap documented dataset-wide for other NetFile jurisdictions.
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)A negative-result access check: California's statewide Cal-Access campaign-finance filer/candidate search was queried directly this pass and returned no usable content, consistent with the same access-blocking pattern documented elsewhere in this dataset. Local candidates for seats like these typically file with the city rather than the state in any case.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia, "South Lake Tahoe, California": used narrowly for the city's population (~21,000) and its status as a general-law city; does not cover the 2026 election.

Last updated September 2, 2026.