# Windsor Town Council, District 1

Compare records and positions simply between Evan Kubota or Gina Fortino Dickson for Windsor Town Council, District 1 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person would represent one of Windsor's four Town Council districts. They vote on town laws, the budget, and land use. Windsor is a Sonoma County town of 26,344 people. It incorporated in 1992. A town manager runs daily operations, while the Council sets policy. Council seats have been elected by district since 2020. Before that, seats were elected at-large. The term is four years. The Mayor is elected separately, at-large, for two years. Districts 1 and 4 are up this November. Districts 2 and 3 are not up again until 2028.

- Jurisdiction: City of Windsor
- Election: November 3, 2026 California general election
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- Sources last retrieved: September 1, 2026
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## On the ballot

- **Evan Kubota** — Security Executive
- **Gina Fortino Dickson** — Attorney/Planning Commissioner

A nonpartisan office: candidates do not run as Democrats or Republicans, and no party appears on the ballot.

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. Windsor is a Sonoma County town of 26,344, per the 2020 Census. It incorporated in 1992 and has a council manager government. Councilmembers set the budget, ordinances, and land use policy. A professional town manager runs day-to-day operations. Council seats are elected by district to four-year terms. That system began with 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 isn't seeking reelection, per the town's own Council directory. The county roster flagged this race's nomination period as extended to August 12. That is consistent with no eligible incumbent filing by the regular August 7 deadline. Fortino Dickson qualified on August 12, at the close of that extended window. Kubota qualified August 5, before the regular deadline had passed.

## Gina Fortino Dickson

Gina Fortino Dickson's ballot designation is "Attorney/Planning Commissioner." Dickson's filed candidate statement describes them 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. Their 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 their own filed statement was found in this pass.

**Strengths:** A sitting Planning Commissioner and former Parks and Recreation Commissioner, giving Dickson a checkable local land use record. Dickson also brings legal training and county-level civic roles.

**Trade-offs:** No independent coverage was found assessing their Planning Commission record. Nor was any found verifying the budget and public safety claims in their own statement.

**Keep in mind:** Dickson's emergency management work followed the 2019 Kincade Fire, a major regional wildfire. That is relevant disaster response experience. But it was a Sonoma County staff role, not a Windsor town government one.

## Evan Kubota

Evan Kubota's ballot designation is "Security Executive." Kubota's filed candidate statement describes them as a business owner and a current member of the Windsor Planning Commission, where they say they have worked "to balance responsible growth with preserving the character and quality of life that residents value." Their 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 their own filed statement was found in this pass.

**Strengths:** A sitting Planning Commission seat gives Kubota a checkable local land use record. Kubota's stated business owner background lines up with their fiscal and economic development priorities.

**Trade-offs:** Kubota's statement gives broad priorities rather than specific proposals. No independent coverage was found assessing their Planning Commission record or business background.

**Keep in mind:** Security Executive is Kubota's ballot designation, describing their occupation. Their statement does not name the industry or company. No further detail could be confirmed.

## Sources

1. [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.](https://sonomacounty.gov/administrative-support-and-fiscal-services/registrar-of-voters/elections/november-3-2026-general-election-local-candidates-who-have-filed)
2. [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.](https://www.townofwindsor.ca.gov/1481/November-3-2026-General-Municipal-Electi)
3. [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.](https://www.townofwindsor.ca.gov/1484/Candidates-for-Town-Council)
4. [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.](https://www.townofwindsor.ca.gov/directory.aspx?did=8)
5. [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.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor,_California)
6. [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.](https://www.southtechhosting.com/WindsorTown/CampaignDocsWebRetrieval/)
7. [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.](https://www.townofwindsor.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/32832/Fortino-Dickson-Gina---Candidate-Statement-WEB)
8. [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.](https://www.townofwindsor.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/32831/Kubota-Evan-_-Candidate-Statement-WEB)

## The rest of the ballot

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