Message from the City Manager

Published on December 21, 2022

Happy Holidays! Hopefully you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend as we head into this holiday season. I would like to encourage you all to shop locally in Suisun City as much as you can as your sales tax dollars support your public safety personnel, as well as almost everything else we do as a city. Your online purchases help as well.

This is a very exciting time for many reasons. The 2022 elections are over, and the Council will be certifying the election at the next meeting on December 6th and swearing-in our newest Councilmembers. Congratulations to Jenalee Dawson and Princess Washington! In addition, two mayors will be sworn in, short-term Mayor Larry Brumfield, and full-term Mayor Alma Hernandez.

This is a bit confusing so I will attempt to explain. As you may recall, former Mayor Lori D. Wilson resigned from the Suisun City Council after winning the special election for Assembly that was held to fill former state Assembly member Jim Frazier’s seat when he resigned mid-term at the end of 2021. Mayor Wilson’s seat on the Council was scheduled to be up for election this year, but since the remaining members of the Council were unable to agree upon an appointee to the vacated Mayor’s seat, the election code required us to run a special election for the remainder of former Mayor Wilson’s unexpired term. However, in order to save on the cost of a special election, which would have been over $100,000 and would only have resulted in a slightly longer short-term mayor, the Council decided to consolidate the special election with the general election. Larry Brumfield was the only candidate for the short-term election and Alma Hernandez was the winner of the full-term election. This is very similar to this year’s state election for U.S. Senator in which Alex Padilla was on the ballot for the short-term and full-term seats. However, in that case Alex Padilla ran in and won both elections.

Both mayors will be sworn in on December 6th, but Mayor Brumfield’s term will be ceremonial and will only last until Mayor Hernandez is sworn in a few minutes later. Council will then need to discuss appointing a successor to fill Mayor Hernandez’ Council seat since her term does not expire until 2024 and she cannot hold that seat and the mayor’s seat. I hope that helps to explain this very unique election situation. Congratulations to Mayor Brumfield and Mayor Hernandez!

Congratulations also to Councilmember Wanda Williams who chose not to run for her expiring seat on the City Council, but did run for District 3 Supervisor, which she won decisively, and congratulations to former Mayor Lori D. Wilson who won her election for state Assembly! Suisun City is now well-represented at both the county and state levels!

Here is the full report: 

CM-Report-November-2022.pdf(PDF, 1MB)