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City of Vallejo · Statewide General Election

Vallejo City Council, District 5

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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 Vallejo's open District 5 council seat after incumbent Peter Bregenzer declined to seek reelection: Tara Beasley Stansberry, Tanya Hall, and Rebekah Truemper. Whoever gets the most votes on November 3 wins outright -- no runoff.

This person would hold the District 5 seat (central Vallejo) 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.

Sitting councilmember Peter Bregenzer did not file for reelection; the county's own Candidate Filed Log marks his row "DID NOT FILE," and the Vallejo Sun independently confirms he "declined to run," leaving the seat genuinely open.

Tanya Hall

Hall's 2026 ballot designation is "Retired Career Advisor." Per the Vallejo Sun, she is a lifetime resident of District 5, vice-chair of the city's Architectural Heritage Landmarks Commission, a founding member of the African American Parent Network, a former Inter Tribal Council member and Participatory Budgeting delegate, and previously worked as a Vallejo City Unified School District college and career advisor. She came in third in her 2022 bid for City Council. On her own campaign site, she frames her candidacy through her grandfather's story: he moved from a lumber mill he owned in Vicksburg, Mississippi to Vallejo in 1919, at the urging of an uncle she describes as "a Buffalo Soldier and Vallejo's very first African-American contractor," and spent nearly 45 years as a first-class rigger at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard.

Strengths

A lifetime District 5 resident with a specific career (school district college/career advising), a broad civic-organization record, and a prior council run for comparison (3rd place, 2022).

Trade-offs

Her own site emphasizes family history over a detailed policy platform; no issue-by-issue 2026 platform was found beyond the Vallejo Sun's brief summary.

Keep in mind

This is a repeat run -- she lost in 2022, finishing third of five candidates.

Tara Beasley Stansberry

Beasley Stansberry's 2026 ballot designation is "Businessowner / HR Recruiter" (she styles her name "Tara Beasley-Stansberry" on her own campaign site and in the Vallejo Sun's reporting). She currently serves as a Vallejo Planning Commissioner and on the Police Chief's Advisory Board; per the Vallejo Sun, as Planning Commissioner she has advocated for a neighborhood mixed-use designation to increase the affordable-housing supply. She came in second in her 2022 council bid, in a field of five candidates. Her own site describes her as "a wife and mother, a small business owner, and a public servant," and states her platform under the banner "Results over Rhetoric": cleaner streets and safer public spaces with faster response to blight and broken infrastructure, accountable housing and health solutions, and support for small businesses and local hiring.

Strengths

Current Planning and Police Advisory Board service with one named policy position (mixed-use zoning for affordable housing), plus the strongest 2022 showing of the three (2nd of 5).

Trade-offs

Her own site does not specify her business or professional background beyond "small business owner"; no independent news profile beyond the Vallejo Sun's brief was found.

Keep in mind

Her Planning Commission role means she has already taken public positions on Vallejo land-use questions -- a record voters can weigh directly, not just a platform.

Rebekah Truemper

Truemper's 2026 ballot designation is "Nonprofit Organization Advisor." Per the Vallejo Sun, she is a 26-year Vallejo resident, chair of the McCune Commission, and an active organizer in a District 5 neighborhood group; she joined with parents and teachers to help start Vallejo's first K-8 model school. Her own campaign site describes her as "a strategist, change agent, community builder, and resource generator," with a six-part platform: continuing progress on public safety, a plan for economic development, better opportunities for young people, resources for unhoused residents, affordable housing for working families, and safety for women, children, and other vulnerable people.

Strengths

The longest documented Vallejo tenure of the three (26 years), a named civic role (McCune Commission chair), and a concrete record -- helping start the city's first K-8 model school.

Trade-offs

Her own site doesn't specify what the McCune Commission governs, her nonprofit employer, or her formal education -- those come only from the Vallejo Sun's brief mention.

Keep in mind

A first-time council candidate, unlike her two opponents, who each have a 2022 result to compare against.

Source review: Strong (81/100) · 9 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: Tanya Hall's own campaign site (hallforvallejo.com/about): recounts her grandfather's 1919 move from a Vicksburg, Mississippi lumber mill to Vallejo at the urging of his uncle, "a Buffalo Soldier and Vallejo's very first African-American contractor," and his subsequent 44-years-11-months career as a first-class rigger at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, as the basis for her own District 5 candidacy., Rebekah Truemper's own campaign site (rebekahforvallejo.com): describes her as a 26-year Vallejo resident and nonprofit leader, "a strategist, change agent, community builder, and resource generator"; lists a six-part platform -- public safety, economic development, youth opportunity, resources for the unhoused, affordable housing for working families, and safety for vulnerable populations., and Tara Beasley-Stansberry's own campaign site (taraforvallejo.com): describes her as "a wife and mother, a small business owner, and a public servant" currently serving as a Vallejo Planning Commissioner and on the Police Chief's Advisory Board; states her platform as cleaner/safer streets, accountable housing and health solutions, and local economic opportunity, under the banner "Results over Rhetoric." may have more bias because they are advocacy voter guides 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
  • hallforvallejo.com (opens in a new tab)Tanya Hall's own campaign site (hallforvallejo.com/about): recounts her grandfather's 1919 move from a Vicksburg, Mississippi lumber mill to Vallejo at the urging of his uncle, "a Buffalo Soldier and Vallejo's very first African-American contractor," and his subsequent 44-years-11-months career as a first-class rigger at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, as the basis for her own District 5 candidacy
  • taraforvallejo.com (opens in a new tab)Tara Beasley-Stansberry's own campaign site (taraforvallejo.com): describes her as "a wife and mother, a small business owner, and a public servant" currently serving as a Vallejo Planning Commissioner and on the Police Chief's Advisory Board; states her platform as cleaner/safer streets, accountable housing and health solutions, and local economic opportunity, under the banner "Results over Rhetoric"
  • rebekahforvallejo.com (opens in a new tab)Rebekah Truemper's own campaign site (rebekahforvallejo.com): describes her as a 26-year Vallejo resident and nonprofit leader, "a strategist, change agent, community builder, and resource generator"; lists a six-part platform -- public safety, economic development, youth opportunity, resources for the unhoused, affordable housing for working families, and safety for vulnerable populations
  • 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.