By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Downtown Oakland skyline over Lake Merritt at dusk. Photo: Darin Marshall / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
These are early, unofficial returns from NBC Bay Area's Alameda County results page. Totals were cross-checked against ABC7's results page, which matched or ran slightly ahead in its later updates.
San Leandro Mayor
Juan González: 68.93% (10,010)
James Maes: 31.07% (4,513)
San Leandro City Council, District 3
Lee Thomas: 59.4% (7,364)
Joseph Trujillo: 40.6% (5,033)
ABC7 marks González as the incumbent.
All results are unofficial election-night and early-morning counts as of Wednesday, Nov. 4. Counties keep counting mail and provisional ballots for days, and certification comes later, so margins can shift, especially in close contests.
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Mayor Juan González III, an MIT-trained economist and retired KPMG principal, is seeking a second term against James Maes, a retired federal operations executive who sits on the city's Recreation and Parks Commission. Both name the structural budget deficit and stalled infrastructure as top issues. Only one of four council seats, District 3, is contested.
In the city's first district-based election, ballots mailed this week appear to show every council race instead of just each voter's own district, which could touch the contested District 3 seat.
Thieves took two animatronics and other decorations, about $700 worth, from the Nutting family's free San Leandro haunted house. A GoFundMe has raised more than $1,400, and the show will go on.
The California Department of Toxic Substances Control says Alco Iron & Metal will pay about $1.47 million to settle hazardous waste violations found at its San Leandro, Stockton and Vallejo scrap yards. Half the money goes to community projects run through the Rose Foundation. The company calls it regulatory overreach.
A former dump south of Oakland International Airport is now a 157-acre East Bay Regional Park District shoreline with bay views, picnic areas, a monarch garden and free disc golf.
