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The City Council's mailing address is:
100 Santa Rosa Avenue, Room 10
Santa Rosa, CA 95405
Phone: 707-543-3010 Fax: 707-543-3030
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Mayor Susan Gorin was selected as Mayor in December 2008. She replaced John Sawyer as Vice Mayor until November 2008. She was elected to the City Council in November 2006. Before being elected she served as a Santa Rosa Planning Commissioner. In addition, she has Chaired or been a member of many other organizations and agencies, including the Santa Rosa School Board, Santa Rosa Board of Public Utilities, and the Santa Rosa Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee.
Areas of primary focus include planning for our City's future, preservation of our natural resources, expanded public transit and safe bicycle and pedestrian transportation, and citizen participation.
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Vice Mayor Gary Wysocky was elected to the City Council in November 2008 and selected as Vice Mayor in November 2009.
Gary has served as President of the Junior College Neighborhood Association and the Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition, in addition to being a founding board member of the Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition. He has owned and operated a CPA practice for over 25 years and has taught at Sonoma State University as an adjunct professor. Gary has also coached basketball at Piner High School for six years. Gary has been a Santa Rosa resident since 1991, and is the father of a teenage daughter, Jessica.
Gary’s major areas of focus are budget, transportation, climate change, and neighborhood issues.
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Councilmember Jane Bender was first elected to the Santa Rosa City Council in 2000. She was re-elected in 2004 and 2008 and served as Mayor from 2004-2006. Before being elected to the Council, Bender directed a non-profit called Sonoma County ReLeaf. It employed at-risk youths to plant trees throughout Northern California.
Her major areas of focus have been gang prevention, public safety and climate protection.
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Councilmember Veronica Jacobi was elected to the City Council in November, 2006. She is an Engineer and small business owner. Some of the organizations with which she is involved include the Sonoma County Conservation Council, the Sierra Club, the Sonoma County Water Coalition and the Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition.
Her major areas of focus are safe, healthy and sustainable communities, climate protection, environmentally responsible development and bicycle and pedestrian transportation.
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Councilmember Ernesto Olivares was elected to the City Council in 2008. Ernesto has nearly 30 years of public service with the City of Santa Rosa as a law enforcement officer and has been active in the community for most of his career.
Before being elected, he served as the manager of the City’s Gang Prevention and Intervention Services providing the administration of the Santa Rosa Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force and the management of Measure O funds dedicated to help reduce gang violence. Ernesto currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Volunteer Center of Sonoma County and United Way of the Wine Country.
Ernesto’s priorities include public safety, gang prevention, and working to find solutions for economic recovery.
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Councilmember John Sawyer was selected to become Mayor to fulfill Bob Blanchard's duties until November 2008. John was elected to the City Council in November 2004. A fourth generation Santa Rosan, John runs the family business which opened in Downtown in 1945, and has been an active community volunteer since 1980.
Before being elected, he served as Chairman of the Luther Burbank Home & Gardens Board, President of Santa Rosa Main Street, chaired the City's Merit Awards Committee and chaired the Neighborhood Oriented Policing Citizens Advisory Board. John's priorities include public safety, providing a vital city center and working to improve traffic flow throughout our city.
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Councilmember Marsha Vas Dupre was elected to the City Council in 2008. Marsha served as Vice Mayor in 2009. She previously served on the City Council from 1998 to 2002 and on the SRJC Board of Trustees from 2004 to 2008. She has been a Santa Rosa resident since 1973 and had a twenty-year career with Santa Rosa City Schools as a project manager and guidance counselor.
Her major areas of focus are child care, affordable housing, the environment, and transparency in the governing process.
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