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City of Windsor · Statewide General Election

Windsor Town Council, District 4

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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.

Only one candidate qualified for Windsor's District 4 council seat: Meredith Rennie, a certified public accountant, who is unopposed. This contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome.

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 4 councilmember and Vice Mayor Tanya Potter is running for Mayor this cycle instead of seeking another Council term (see the Mayor contest on this ballot). A second name, Jessie Poshepny Vallery, appears against District 4 on the town's own Candidates page, but marked "Did not file -- no qualification as candidate achieved" -- an attempted filing that wasn't completed, not a second qualified candidate. With only one candidate qualified, the useful question isn't who to choose but what to watch once Rennie takes office: a candidate statement was filed and posted for her, meaning the town printed this as a live, on-ballot contest rather than cancelling it and appointing her directly, an option California law makes available for single-filer seats but which Windsor didn't use here.

Meredith Rennie

Meredith Rennie's ballot designation is "Certified Public Accountant." Her filed candidate statement describes her as an experienced accountant who has audited financial reports across both the private and non-profit sectors, and cites over a decade of local governance experience serving on the Windsor Planning Commission and the Parks and Recreation Commission. She frames her financial background as central to addressing the Town's structural budget deficit, writing that she is "fully equipped to safeguard and strategically invest your taxpayer dollars." No independent news profile beyond her own filed statement was found in this pass.

Strengths

A decade of Planning and Parks and Recreation Commission service gives her a checkable local-governance record, plus accounting experience directly relevant to the Town's stated budget deficit.

Trade-offs

Running unopposed means her record faces no organized counter-argument this cycle, and this pass found no independent coverage assessing her Commission service or her financial-management claims.

Keep in mind

Her statement emphasizes auditing experience in the private and non-profit sectors; it does not specify employers or the scale of the organizations involved, and this pass could not independently verify further detail.

Source review: Strong (86/100) · 7 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)Meredith Rennie -- filed candidate statement for Windsor Town Council District 4, 2026, hosted on the town's own site: ballot designation "Certified Public Accountant," describes her accounting career auditing financial reports across the private and non-profit sectors, and over a decade of local governance experience on the Windsor Planning Commission and Parks and Recreation Commission.

Last updated September 1, 2026.