Clovis · Election Day November 3, 2026
Des Haus
Clovis City Council — District 5
Clovis First. Clovis Always.
For the first time in over a century, District 5 elects its own councilmember. Only District 5 votes in this race.
Why now
District 5 has never had
a voice of its own.
For more than a hundred years, Clovis chose its council citywide. Every neighborhood folded into one ballot, one conversation. It worked. The people who served in those years built the town we all chose to move to, and they have our thanks for it.
This November, that changes. For the first time, District 5 elects its own councilmember — not someone representing all of Clovis who happens to live nearby, but someone answerable to these streets, these intersections, this side of town.
That is a genuinely new job. Nobody has held it before. And the next ten years here are going to be decided by budgets, infrastructure, and growth arriving faster than the roads and water to serve it.
That's the work I've done for a living. Multi-million dollar budgets, large-scale infrastructure, and the kind of complex regulation that costs cities money when nobody at the table understands it. I already watch Clovis tax dollars as Co-Chair of the Measure Y Oversight Committee. I'd like to do it from the dais.
About Des
A proven leader. A local neighbor.
More than thirteen years in Clovis. Two daughters in Clovis Unified. Co-Chair of the Measure Y Oversight Committee.
Des Haus is a business leader with a background in the energy and infrastructure sectors, specializing in strategic partnerships and large-scale project management. She has built a career navigating complex regulation and managing multi-million dollar budgets — and she isn't a career politician. She's a practitioner who knows how to drive efficiency and deliver results.
Des was appointed by the City Council to the Measure Y Oversight Committee, and was nominated by her fellow members to serve as its Co-Chair. In that role she reviews how Clovis spends its public safety sales tax — pressing on expenditures, on timing, and on whether the money is actually there when the city says it is. It is unglamorous work, and it is the reason she knows where this budget has slack and where it doesn't.
Des first came to Clovis as a Fresno State student. She left for a while, and then chose it again — this time to settle down and raise a family. More than thirteen years later she's still here, a wife and a CUSD mom with two daughters in local schools. She chose Clovis for the same reasons you did: the safety, the schools, the values. Most people pick a hometown once. Des picked this one twice.
Out in the community, where the work actually happens.
Priorities
What I hear at the door in District 5
Your tax dollars, watched closely
Money approved for one purpose has a way of drifting toward another once the vote is over. I do this work now as Co-Chair of the Measure Y Oversight Committee, and I'll keep doing it from the dais.
Growth that pays for itself
Clovis is one of the fastest-growing cities in California. New rooftops arrive faster than the roads, water capacity, and staffing that serve them. Development should carry its own infrastructure costs instead of pushing them onto the neighbors who are already here.
Neighborhoods that stay safe
As a mother, public safety isn't abstract to me. Clovis is growing quickly and our police and fire staffing has to grow with it — which means funding those positions properly and making sure the people doing the job have real support behind them. That is a budget question as much as a policing one. I'll push for Measure Y dollars to reach front-line staffing, and for open, honest conversations from the dais with the staff who actually do the work.
Let Clovis decide on term limits
Clovis has no term limits, and its voters have never been asked whether they want them. Fresno is putting that question on its ballot this November. Ours deserve the same say. Public service is a season, not a career — and how long that season runs should be decided by residents, not by whoever already holds the seat. I'll bring it forward and let Clovis decide.
Endorsements
Who's backing Des
Law enforcement, county leadership, and neighbors across District 5.
Proudly endorsed by
Peace Officers Research Association of California
Local & regional leaders
County leaders across California
- Chris LopezMonterey County
- Luis AlejoMonterey County
- Chris HowardDel Norte County
- Rex BohnHumboldt County
- Grant CarmonGlenn County
- Tony ArendtGlenn County
County supervisors who have worked with Des on infrastructure, budgets and public projects.
District 5
Clovis votes by district for the first time
After more than a century of at-large elections, Clovis adopted council districts in 2025. Districts 1, 4, and 5 are on the ballot this November — and only District 5 voters choose this seat.
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District 5 is about 24,000 people
A few thousand votes decides this seat. Ten conversations with your own neighbors will move this race more than anything else — including money.
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