City of Woodside · Statewide General Election

Woodside Town Council, District 3

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On the ballot

Daniel Druker — Retired Technology Executive

This person would hold one of Woodside's five district-elected Town Council seats: town ordinances, the budget, and land use for this San Mateo County town of about 5,300 residents, under a council-manager government with an appointed Town Manager. A 4-year term. The Council chooses a Mayor and Vice Mayor from among its own members each year, rather than voters electing either office directly.

Only one candidate qualified for this seat. Retired tech executive Daniel Druker appears unopposed, so this contest is settled and your vote here does not change the outcome. Sitting incumbent Dick Brown did not file to keep the seat — and is himself one of Druker's endorsers.

With no opponent, the useful question is not who to choose but who he is. Druker has served on Woodside's Town Center Area Plan and Circulation committees and is president of the Moore Road management association, work he cites on projects from Woodside Road beautification to pedestrian and bicyclist safety near local schools to wildfire evacuation readiness. Current District 3 Councilmember Dick Brown did not file to seek another term; his own statement says Brown is among his endorsers, but no source in this dataset explains Brown's decision not to run again.

Daniel Druker

Druker has lived on the Peninsula since 1972, graduated from Stanford and UCLA, and is married with five children. He retired as a technology industry executive and has since focused on public service in Woodside: the Town Center Area Plan and Circulation committees, and the presidency of the Moore Road management association. His stated platform centers on public safety and security, recreation and community, fiscal excellence and good government, and responsibly managing the state's housing mandates. He says his candidacy is endorsed by four of the five sitting Town Council members — including District 3's own outgoing Dick Brown — the presidents of the Woodside Heights and Woodside Hills HOAs (which he says represent about a third of the town's population), and three Town committee chairs.

Strengths

Town committee experience, an HOA leadership role, and a stated endorsement from four of five sitting councilmembers, including his own district's outgoing incumbent.

Trade-offs

All of that endorsement and biographical detail comes from his own candidate statement; no independent news coverage or campaign website was found to check it against, and he is running unopposed.

Keep in mind

He names the same two priorities as District 2's Weaver — public safety/security spending and the state Housing Element — suggesting both are likely to dominate the incoming Council's agenda regardless of who holds which seat.

Source review: Strong (89/100) · 7 cited sources

Official records anchor this contest, with multiple sources checked.

smcacre.gov (opens in a new tab)San Mateo County ACRE -- Roster of Candidates, Qualified Candidates Only, November 3, 2026 General Election (CFMR009), dated 2026-08-25: the county's own certified candidate list, naming the two qualified Woodside Town Council candidates (Lyle Weaver, District 2; Daniel Druker, District 3), their filed occupations, and qualification dates, both flagged 'On Ballot: Yes, Vote for 1'
smcacre.gov (opens in a new tab)San Mateo County ACRE -- this dataset's own transcribed summary of the same CFMR009 roster's contest headers, confirming exactly two Town of Woodside Town Council races are on the November ballot (Districts 2 and 3) and none else
woodsideca.gov (opens in a new tab)Town of Woodside -- official Town Council page: confirms a 5-member Council elected by district to 4-year terms, staggered so no more than three seats are up at once, with the Mayor and Vice Mayor chosen by the Council from among its own members each year; lists the five sitting members (Jenn Wall, District 1; Brian Dombkowski, District 2, Mayor; Dick Brown, District 3; Paul Goeld, District 4, Mayor Pro Tem; Hassan Aburish, District 5)
woodsideca.gov (opens in a new tab)Town of Woodside -- dedicated "November 3, 2026 Election - Town Council Candidates" page: confirms Districts 2 and 3 are both full 4-year terms ending 2030, names the single candidate who filed for each (Lyle Weaver, District 2; Daniel Druker, District 3), states the election will proceed as scheduled, gives the filing and write-in windows, and links each candidate's official Candidate Statement PDF
en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)Wikipedia's Woodside, California article -- confirms the Town has a council-manager system of government and a 2020 census population of 5,309
cal-access.sos.ca.gov (opens in a new tab)This dataset's own documented record of a dedicated, unsuccessful attempt to retrieve campaign-finance filings for both Woodside Town Council candidates: California's Cal-Access filer search (cal-access.sos.ca.gov) returned only an empty, unrendered results shell for every query attempted this session, and neither candidate's own statement or site lists an FPPC filer ID. Documents the absence of a reachable financial-disclosure source for these two candidates, not any of their actual finances.
woodsideca.gov (opens in a new tab)Town of Woodside -- Daniel Druker's official Candidate Statement (PDF), filed with the Town Clerk for the November 3, 2026 election: his biography (Peninsula resident since 1972, Stanford and UCLA graduate, married with five children, retired tech industry executive), civic record (Town Center Area Plan and Circulation committees, president of the Moore Road management association), platform (public safety, recreation/community, fiscal excellence, managing state housing mandates), and his stated endorsements -- four of the five sitting Town Council members including District 3's own outgoing Dick Brown, the Woodside Heights and Woodside Hills HOA presidents, and three Town committee chairs

Last updated September 1, 2026.