# Windsor Town Council, District 4

Meredith Rennie is running uncontested for Windsor Town Council, District 4. Full ballot 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
- Source-objectivity score: 86 out of 100 (Strong), across 7 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology

## On the ballot

- **Meredith Rennie** — Certified Public Accountant

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

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. Windsor is a Sonoma County town of 26,344, per the 2020 Census. It incorporated in 1992 and runs under a council-manager system. 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 Tanya Potter is running for Mayor this cycle. She is the sitting District 4 councilmember and Vice Mayor. She is not 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. It is marked "Did not file" with "no qualification as candidate achieved." That is an attempted filing that was not completed, not a second qualified candidate. With only one candidate qualified, the useful question is not who to choose. It is what to watch once Rennie takes office. A candidate statement was filed and posted for Rennie. So the town printed this as a live, on-ballot contest. It did not cancel the contest and appoint Rennie directly. California law makes that option available for single-filer seats, but Windsor did not use it here.

## Meredith Rennie

Meredith Rennie's ballot designation is "Certified Public Accountant." Rennie's filed candidate statement describes them 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. Rennie frames their financial background as central to addressing the Town's structural budget deficit, writing that they are "fully equipped to safeguard and strategically invest your taxpayer dollars." No independent news profile beyond their own filed statement was found in this pass.

**Strengths:** A decade of Planning and Parks and Recreation Commission service gives Rennie a checkable local-governance record. Their accounting experience is directly relevant to the Town's stated budget deficit.

**Trade-offs:** Running unopposed means Rennie's record faces no organized counter-argument this cycle. No independent coverage assessing their Commission service or their financial-management claims was found.

**Keep in mind:** Rennie's statement emphasizes auditing experience in the private and non-profit sectors. It does not name employers or the scale of the organizations involved. Further detail could not be verified.

## 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. [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.](https://www.townofwindsor.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/32829/Rennie-Meredith-_Candidate-Statement-WEB)

## The rest of the ballot

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