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City of Vallejo · Statewide General Election

Vallejo City Council, District 4

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On the ballot

This person would hold one of six district seats on Vallejo's 7-member City Council (six district councilmembers plus a directly elected, at-large Mayor) governing California's second-largest North Bay city (126,090 residents, 2020 Census): city ordinances, the budget, and land use. A 4-year term. The Council chooses a Vice Mayor from among its own district-elected members rather than voters electing one directly, and a Council-appointed City Manager runs day-to-day operations.

Three candidates are running for the District 4 seat on the Vallejo City Council: incumbent Charles Palmares against challengers Brianna Rogers and Chris Platzer. Whoever gets the most votes on November 3 wins outright -- no runoff.

This person would hold the District 4 seat (downtown Vallejo and the Mare Island peninsula) on Vallejo's 7-member City Council -- six district councilmembers plus a directly elected, at-large Mayor governing this 126,090-resident North Bay city. A 4-year term.

A fourth name, Roxann Reyes, took out nomination papers for this seat but never completed her filing -- the county's own Candidate Filed Log marks her "DID NOT COMPLETE FILING," and the City Clerk's separate Final Candidate Roster corroborates it: she was issued supplemental nomination papers in early August but has no matching filed date, unlike the three candidates below.

Charles Palmares

Palmares is the sitting District 4 councilmember, filing under the ballot designation "Councilmember / Senior Manager." Per the Vallejo Sun, he is a Senior Operations Manager for the U.S. Army and, during his term, supported installing traffic-calming devices to slow vehicles exiting Sonoma Boulevard into the St. Vincent Hill neighborhood.

Strengths

An incumbent record with one concrete, named accomplishment -- St. Vincent Hill traffic-calming -- rather than only a general designation.

Trade-offs

No campaign site or additional 2026 platform statement was found beyond the Vallejo Sun's brief profile.

Keep in mind

His day job (Senior Operations Manager, U.S. Army) is on his ballot designation -- a federal role distinct from any city position.

Brianna Rogers

Rogers's 2026 ballot designation is "Community Foundation Strategist." She studied rhetoric at UC Berkeley and holds a master's in policy management from Georgetown University. Per the Vallejo Sun, she is a Senior Officer with the San Francisco Foundation, focused on a Bay Area program to improve economic conditions for working people, and currently serves as a Vallejo Housing and Community Development Commissioner. Her own campaign site adds that she previously served on Berkeley's City Planning Commission and its Children Youth and Recreation Commission, and that she currently sits on the boards of the Solano Community Foundation and the East Oakland Youth Development Center, and chairs community engagement and outreach for Black Women Organized for Political Action's Napa/Solano chapter. She describes herself as a mother and first-time Vallejo homeowner. Her campaign message: "leadership that listens first -- and acts with purpose."

Strengths

A regional economic-development career (SF Foundation), a civic role (Vallejo Housing Commissioner), and a nonprofit board record -- confirmed by both her own site and the Vallejo Sun.

Trade-offs

Her Berkeley Planning Commission service and her degrees are self-reported on her own site, not independently corroborated by a third party this pass.

Keep in mind

Several cited roles (Solano Community Foundation, EOYDC boards, BWOPA chair) are outside Vallejo city government -- relevant experience, not city office.

Chris Platzer

Platzer's 2026 ballot designation is "Merchant Mariner." Per the Vallejo Sun, he is a U.S. Coast Guard-licensed Deck Officer and sailing instructor, and a former Vallejo Planning Commissioner who has advocated for greater fiscal responsibility and infrastructure improvements. The same article reports that he resigned from the Planning Commission in 2020 after he was seen drinking beer and threw his cat during a public Zoom meeting, and describes him as a regular patron of the Vallejo farmers' market.

Strengths

Prior Vallejo Planning Commission service and a stated, specific platform (fiscal responsibility, infrastructure) rather than only a bare designation.

Trade-offs

No campaign site or additional 2026-specific platform detail beyond the Vallejo Sun's profile was found.

Keep in mind

The Vallejo Sun reports he resigned from the Planning Commission in 2020 after being seen drinking beer and throwing his cat on a public Zoom call -- six years old, and specific to that prior role, not this candidacy.

Source review: Strong (86/100) · 7 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with several source types checked for context; advocacy or endorsement sources are treated as attributed perspective.

Review note: Brianna Rogers's own campaign site (briannaforvallejo.com): confirms she studied rhetoric at UC Berkeley and holds a master's in policy management from Georgetown; previously served on Berkeley's City Planning Commission and its Children Youth and Recreation Commission; currently a board director for the Solano Community Foundation and the East Oakland Youth Development Center, and Community Engagement and Outreach Chair for Black Women Organized for Political Action's Napa/Solano chapter; describes herself as a mother and first-time Vallejo homeowner. may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources.

  • content.solanocounty.gov (opens in a new tab)Solano County Registrar of Voters -- "CANDIDATE FILED LOG - November 3, 2026 GENERAL ELECTION" (AS OF 8/20/2026, printed 8/27/2026): a materially updated republication, under the same filename already on file for this dataset's county-level Solano shard, of the July version the local-authoring queue's original estimate was drawn from. Its CITY OF VALLEJO section flags all three district contests ON THE BALLOT: District 2 with exactly one qualified candidate, Diosdado "JR" Matulac (Incumbent, "Councilmember / Restorative Specialist"); District 4 with Charles Palmares (Incumbent), Brianna Rogers, and Chris Platzer qualified, plus Roxann Reyes marked "DID NOT COMPLETE FILING"; District 5 with Tara Beasley Stansberry, Tanya Hall, and Rebekah Truemper qualified, plus incumbent Peter Bregenzer marked "DID NOT FILE." No Vallejo Mayor section appears anywhere in the document
  • cityofvallejo.net (opens in a new tab)City of Vallejo City Clerk -- "FINAL CANDIDATE ROSTER: Candidates for Vallejo Councilmembers in Districts 2, 4 & 5, November 3, 2026" (dated 8/12/26, the close of District 5's extended nomination period): independently corroborates the county log's qualified roster and adds filing-mechanics detail -- Roxann Reyes (District 4) was issued supplemental nomination papers 8/6-8/7/26 but has no corresponding filed date, unlike the other three District 4 candidates, who each show a complete issue-and-file date pair; Tara Beasley Stansberry (District 5) needed and filed a supplemental nomination petition 7/29-7/30/26. Carries no Mayor section at all -- its own title names only Districts 2, 4, and 5
  • cityofvallejo.net (opens in a new tab)City of Vallejo -- its own "Mayor & City Council" page: names the sitting seven-member Council by district and term -- Mayor Andrea Sorce (at-large, term expires January 2029), Vice Mayor Diosdado "JR" Matulac (District 2), Alexander Matias (District 1), Tonia Lediju PhD (District 3), Charles Palmares (District 4), Peter Bregenzer (District 5), Helen-Marie Gordon (District 6) -- and confirms Districts 2, 4, and 5 are the three seats with terms expiring January 2027, the seats up this cycle. States councilmembers are "elected by-district" while the Mayor is "directly elected," both to 4-year terms, with a two-consecutive-term charter limit
  • vallejosun.com (opens in a new tab)Vallejo Sun, Aug. 13, 2026, "Several incumbents decline to run again in November elections for Vallejo, Benicia" (by Ryan Geller and Gretchen Zimmermann): profiles all three Vallejo council races with real, checkable biographical detail for all seven qualified candidates -- confirms Matulac unopposed in District 2; Palmares's Army career and traffic-calming record, Rogers's Georgetown degree and board seats, and Platzer's Coast Guard license and 2020 Planning Commission resignation ("after he was seen drinking beer and threw his cat during a public Zoom meeting") in District 4; and Hall's, Beasley Stansberry's, and Truemper's civic roles, 2022 election results, and platforms in the open District 5 seat
  • briannaforvallejo.com (opens in a new tab)Brianna Rogers's own campaign site (briannaforvallejo.com): confirms she studied rhetoric at UC Berkeley and holds a master's in policy management from Georgetown; previously served on Berkeley's City Planning Commission and its Children Youth and Recreation Commission; currently a board director for the Solano Community Foundation and the East Oakland Youth Development Center, and Community Engagement and Outreach Chair for Black Women Organized for Political Action's Napa/Solano chapter; describes herself as a mother and first-time Vallejo homeowner
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia -- "Vallejo, California": used narrowly for the city's 2020 Census population (126,090) and its general district-based council-manager structure; does not cover the 2026 election, and its claim that the Vice Mayor title is "currently held by the District 5 representative" is stale, contradicted by the city's own current roster (District 2's Matulac), so it is not used
  • cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)A negative-result campaign-finance search: California's Cal-Access campaign-finance search (cal-access.sos.ca.gov) returned only a blocked bot-verification shell for a direct filer search against each of the seven qualified Vallejo candidates this session, the same recurring bot-detection failure mode documented elsewhere in this dataset. Cal-Access also covers only state-level committees, not local city-council candidates, in any case. Documents the absence of a reachable financial-disclosure source for these three contests, not any candidate's actual finances

Last updated September 1, 2026.