The three candidates’ reported receipts and loans through Oct. 17 total $29,269.17. Two later contributions to Brandon Stroy totaled $3,900; counted in addition, the combined amount is $33,169.17. Loans made up $18,135.14 of the Oct. 17 total, though not all were candidates’ own loans: Shali Sirkay’s $5,000 loan came from another person.
The Mountain View Voice reported that David Poll had $12,902.86 in receipts and loans, including an $8,500 loan to his campaign and another $252.40 of his own money. The Los Altos School District teachers’ union also made a $912 non-monetary contribution for newspaper advertisements. Poll was the only candidate in the race to receive the union’s endorsement.
Poll had spent about $11,100, mostly on signage and voter outreach by email and text, the outlet reported.
Sirkay’s $5,000 Loan Came From Another Person
Sirkay reported $3,359.67 in donations and a $5,000 loan from Nishikant Mane, for a total of $8,359.67 by Oct. 17, according to the Mountain View Voice. She also carried forward $1,440 from her previous campaign and received $1,000 from former Los Altos School District member Sangeeth Peruri.
Sirkay had spent about $4,560 on lawn signs and her candidate statement, the report said. In her first board campaign, a filing period ending Sept. 22, 2018, she raised $4,980 and spent $2,962, mostly on filing fees and signs, the Voice reported.
Stroy’s Later Donations Came After the Oct. 17 Cutoff
By Oct. 17, Brandon Stroy had reported $3,371.50 in donations and a $4,635.14 loan to his own campaign, for a total of $8,006.64, the Mountain View Voice reported. He later received two contributions from Jessica Speiser: $2,000 on Oct. 23 and $1,900 on Oct. 26. Erik Walukiewicz, the school district’s assistant superintendent of business services, contributed $102.47.
Stroy reported spending $4,936.52, mostly on website maintenance and design, campaign signs and his candidate statement, according to the same report. He joined the board earlier this year after being appointed to replace Vladimir Ivanovic, who resigned.
A Fourth Candidate Barely Registers on Paper
Incumbent Bryan Johnson, the fourth candidate on the ballot, filed paperwork indicating he planned to raise and spend less than $2,000. That filing provides less detail about his fundraising than the reports from his three opponents.
Sirkay also received $257.94 from Pete Dailey, $250 from John Zoglin and $100 from Anky Van Deursen.
Monetary contributions totaling $1,000 or more from a single source during the specified election-cycle reporting period must be reported within 24 hours; qualifying non-monetary contributions have a 48-hour deadline. A separate report from the Los Altos Town Crier put the same three candidates’ totals at different figures — $11,078 in total receipts for Poll, $7,144 in contributions for Sirkay, and $7,490 in contributions for Stroy — though it isn’t clear from the available reporting whether that outlet’s numbers cover the same filing window or accounting method as the Voice’s tally. The Town Crier also noted a comparable dynamic playing out in the Foothill-De Anza Community College District’s Area 4 race, where Bill Wilson reported $20,230 in contributions plus a $4,000 loan, compared with just $934 in contributions from Liang Chao.
What California’s Reporting Rules Require
For the Nov. 3, 2026, local election, the California Fair Political Practices Commission’s filing schedule requires a candidate to file Form 497 within 24 hours after receiving monetary contributions totaling $1,000 or more from a single source during the specified election-cycle reporting period; qualifying non-monetary contributions totaling $1,000 or more have a 48-hour deadline. The cited schedule addresses contribution reporting; it does not set out loan-specific rules for the loans described above. The same schedule says a candidate who does not raise or spend, or anticipate raising or spending, $2,000 or more in 2026 and has no open committee may file Form 470 instead of detailed Form 460 reports.
