Contra Costa Water District Division 2 Election 2026: Appointed Director Daniel Fitzpatrick vs. Allison Picard
Contra Costa Water District voters in Division 2 will choose between Daniel T. Fitzpatrick, who was appointed to fill a vacancy on the board, and Allison Picard, a retired county manager.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
The Streets of Brentwood shopping center in Brentwood in late-afternoon sun. Photo: Thomasfan1916 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
One seat on the Contra Costa Water District board is contested on Nov. 3. The race is in Division 2.
The candidates
Daniel T. Fitzpatrick. The county lists him as the incumbent, appointed to a vacancy.
Allison Picard, ballot designation: Retired County Manager.
About the district
The district says it was established in 1936 and now serves more than half a million people. It marks its 90th year in 2026. It also runs the Los Vaqueros Watershed, where it uses goats for vegetation management this fall.
Ballot designations are the short job descriptions candidates chose for the ballot, as printed on the county's official candidate list. This explainer does not endorse anyone.
How to vote
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3. Polls and vote centers close at 8 p.m., and mailed ballots must be postmarked by Election Day and arrive within seven days. You can check your registration and ballot status at sos.ca.gov/elections. California lets you register and vote the same day at a vote center.
Sources
This article is an original summary based on the following reporting. We encourage readers to visit the original sources for full coverage.
The day's Bay Area housing, business and neighborhood news, plus the world headlines that matter, in one short email. Free, and you can unsubscribe anytime.
We use your email only to send the Brief. Details in our privacy policy.
Two candidates are running for the Division 2 seat on the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District board on Nov. 3: Brian Henderson, a retired wastewater engineer, and Michael Robert McGill, who already holds the seat.
The Contra Costa Community College District runs Contra Costa College, Diablo Valley College and Los Medanos College. Two of its board seats are contested this year. In Ward 1, education advocate Raquel Donoso faces Pinole council member Cameron Sasai for an open seat. In Ward 3, incumbent Becca Barrett faces Allyse Tanovitz.
Three candidates are running for Area 2 on the Contra Costa County Board of Education, which covers Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda, Canyon and northern Alamo. Board president Sarah Butler wants a third term. Former Orinda trustee Pamela West and school psychologist Sibyl Minighini are challenging her.
If you expected a school board race on your Contra Costa ballot and didn’t find one, your seat may have drawn only one candidate. Here are the seats in West Contra Costa, San Ramon Valley, Acalanes, Antioch, Moraga, Lafayette and the county and college boards where no one has to campaign against anyone.
Several Contra Costa cities still elect a city treasurer or city clerk, and this year most of those races have just one candidate. They still appear on the ballot. Here is what Concord’s Patti Barsotti, San Pablo’s Viviana Toledo and Dorothy Gantt, Pittsburg’s Nancy Parent and Walnut Creek’s Ronald Cassano would do.
