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City of Windsor · Statewide General Election

Windsor Town Council, District 1

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On the ballot

This person would represent one of Windsor's four Town Council districts: town ordinances, the budget, and land use for this Sonoma County town of 26,344 (2020 Census). Windsor incorporated in 1992 and operates under a council-manager government, with a professional town manager running day-to-day operations while the elected Council sets policy. Council seats have been elected by district, to four-year terms, since the November 2020 election (previously at-large); the Mayor is separately elected at-large to a two-year term. Districts 1 and 4 are up this November; Districts 2 and 3 are not up again until 2028.

Two candidates are running for Windsor's open Town Council District 1 seat: Gina Fortino Dickson, an attorney and current Planning Commissioner, against Evan Kubota, a business owner and Planning Commissioner. Whichever candidate gets the most votes on November 3 wins the seat outright -- no runoff.

This seat is one of Windsor's four district-elected Town Council seats, representing this Sonoma County town of 26,344 (2020 Census). Windsor is a council-manager town, incorporated in 1992: councilmembers set the budget, ordinances, and land-use policy, while a professional town manager runs day-to-day operations. Council seats are elected by district to four-year terms, a system introduced in the November 2020 election; the Mayor is separately elected at-large to a two-year term. Districts 1 and 4 are up this November; Districts 2 and 3 are not up again until 2028.

The seat is open because sitting District 1 councilmember Mike Wall, per the town's own Council directory, isn't seeking reelection. The county roster flagged this race's nomination period as extended to August 12, consistent with no eligible incumbent filing to run again by the regular August 7 deadline; Fortino Dickson qualified on August 12, at the close of that extended window, while Kubota qualified August 5, before the regular deadline had even passed.

Gina Fortino Dickson

Gina Fortino Dickson's ballot designation is "Attorney/Planning Commissioner." Her filed candidate statement describes her as a former Windsor Parks and Recreation Commissioner and current Windsor Planning Commissioner, an attorney and Chair of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women focused on protecting victims of sexual assault and elder abuse, a member of the Sonoma County Child Care Planning Council, and a former staffer in the Sonoma County Department of Emergency Management who worked in the aftermath of the 2019 Kincade Fire. Her stated priorities are the Town's budgetary challenges, preserving public safety services, smoother streets and sidewalks, improved parks, and balancing middle-income housing needs with protecting the Windsor Town Green and small-town character. No independent news profile beyond her own filed statement was found in this pass.

Strengths

A sitting Planning Commissioner and former Parks and Recreation Commissioner, giving her a checkable local land-use record, plus professional legal training and county-level civic roles.

Trade-offs

This pass found no independent coverage assessing her Planning Commission record or verifying the budgetary and public-safety claims in her own statement.

Keep in mind

Her emergency-management work followed the 2019 Kincade Fire, a major regional wildfire -- relevant disaster-response experience, but a Sonoma County staff role, not a Windsor town government one.

Evan Kubota

Evan Kubota's ballot designation is "Security Executive." His filed candidate statement describes him as a business owner and a current member of the Windsor Planning Commission, where he says he has worked "to balance responsible growth with preserving the character and quality of life that residents value." His stated priorities are maintaining local control over development, addressing the Town's structural budget deficit while protecting essential services, and attracting employers and businesses to expand the tax base. No independent news profile beyond his own filed statement was found in this pass.

Strengths

A sitting Planning Commission seat gives him a checkable local land-use record, and his stated business-owner background lines up with his fiscal and economic-development priorities.

Trade-offs

His statement gives broad priorities rather than specific proposals, and this pass found no independent coverage assessing his Planning Commission record or business background.

Keep in mind

"Security Executive" is his ballot designation, describing his occupation; his statement does not specify the industry or company, and this pass could not independently confirm further detail.

Source review: Strong (87/100) · 8 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

  • sonomacounty.gov (opens in a new tab)Sonoma County Registrar of Voters -- "Local Candidates Who Have Filed," November 3, 2026 General Election: lists exactly three Windsor contests -- Mayor, Town Council District 1, and Town Council District 4 -- with per-contest candidate name, ballot designation, qualification date, and incumbent flag; the Mayor, District 1, and District 4 races were each flagged with a nomination deadline extended to August 12. 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.
  • townofwindsor.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)Town of Windsor -- own "November 3, 2026 General Municipal Election" page: confirms three seats up this cycle -- Mayor (at-large, two-year term), Town Council District 1 (four-year term), and Town Council District 4 (four-year term) -- and links the town's own Candidates for Town Council page, its SouthTech-hosted campaign-finance disclosure portal, and its Election Calendar.
  • townofwindsor.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)Town of Windsor -- own "Candidates for Town Council" page: independently names the identical five-candidate field with matching ballot designations, links each qualified candidate's filed candidate statement (Potter, Fortino Dickson, Kubota, and Rennie each filed one; Massell's entry is marked "No candidate statement submitted"), and separately lists Jessie Poshepny Vallery against District 4 as "Did not file -- no qualification as candidate achieved" -- an attempted but incomplete filing, not a second qualified District 4 candidate.
  • townofwindsor.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)Town of Windsor -- own online staff/Council directory: identifies the current five-member Town Council -- Rosa Reynoza (Mayor), Tanya Potter (Vice Mayor / District 4), Mike Wall (District 1), Sam Salmon (District 2), and JB Leep (District 3) -- the basis for reading all three November 2026 contests as open seats: Reynoza isn't seeking reelection as Mayor, Wall isn't seeking reelection to District 1, and Potter -- District 4's sitting incumbent -- is vacating that seat to run for Mayor instead.
  • en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia -- "Windsor, California": used narrowly for the town's 2020 Census population (26,344), its July 1, 1992 incorporation date, its council-manager government structure, and confirmation that the Mayor became a directly, at-large elected office starting with the November 2020 election (before which the Council selected the Mayor from among its own members) and that district Council elections were introduced that same election -- does not cover the 2026 election.
  • southtechhosting.com (opens in a new tab)Windsor's SouthTech Consulting-hosted "CampaignDocs eRetrieval" public campaign-finance portal (linked from the town's own election page): a different vendor than the NetFile instances documented elsewhere in this dataset, but the same access pattern -- the landing page loads without a CAPTCHA (HTTP 200), but it is an ASP.NET Web Forms application (DevExpress controls, a multi-kilobyte __VIEWSTATE payload) whose filer/candidate search runs entirely through client-side postback controls, with no URL-parameter or REST-API path reachable by this session's fetch tooling (no browser extension connected this pass) -- a documented access limitation, not a claim that no filings exist.
  • townofwindsor.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)Gina Fortino Dickson -- filed candidate statement for Windsor Town Council District 1, 2026, hosted on the town's own site: ballot designation "Attorney/Planning Commissioner," describes her service as a former Windsor Parks and Recreation Commissioner and current Windsor Planning Commissioner, her work as an attorney and Chair of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women, her Sonoma County Child Care Planning Council membership, and her post-Kincade Fire work in the Sonoma County Department of Emergency Management.
  • townofwindsor.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)Evan Kubota -- filed candidate statement for Windsor Town Council District 1, 2026, hosted on the town's own site: ballot designation "Security Executive," describes his service on the Windsor Planning Commission, his background as a business owner, and priorities of local control over development, addressing the Town's structural budget deficit, and expanding the tax base.

Last updated September 1, 2026.