Sacramento City Council
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The Sacramento City Council [1]is the governing body of the city of Sacramento, California. It consists of eight members. City Councilmembers make a salary of $50,000 per year. The Mayor of Sacramento is Heather Fargo.
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[edit] Current Councilmembers
| District | Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ray Tretheway |
| 2 | Sandy Sheedy |
| 3 | Steve Cohn |
| 4 | Robert King Fong |
| 5 | Lauren Hammond |
| 6 | Kevin McCarty |
| 7 | Robbie Waters |
| 8 | Bonnie Pannell |
[edit] Profiles
[edit] Ray Tretheway
Ray Tretheway has been a member of the Sacramento City Council since 2001 when he was elected in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Heather Fargo when she became mayor. Ray is the executive director of the Sacramento Tree Foundation. He is a longtime community activist in Natomas and was instrumental in founding the Natomas Community Foundation. He lives in Natomas with his wife, and he has two grown children. Tretheway is an alumnus of UC Santa Cruz.
[edit] Sandy Sheedy
Sandy Sheedy has been a member of the Sacramento City Council since 2000 when she was elected. She previously served on the Sacramento Planning Commission. Sheedy is a Democrat. Sheedy lives with her husband in the Woodlake district of Sacramento. They have 2 grown children. She is considered a potential candidate for Mayor of Sacramento in 2008.
[edit] Steve Cohn
Steve Cohn has been a member of the Sacramento City Council since 1994 when he was elected. Cohn is a Democrat. Cohn ran for mayor in 2000 but lost to Heather Fargo. He has been an attorney with SMUD since 1992. He has also worked with the California Public Utilities Commission. He is considered a potential candidate for Mayor of Sacramento in 2008. Cohn is an alumnus of Yale University and University of San Diego School of Law.
[edit] Robert Fong
Robert Fong is the newest member of the Sacramento City Council having been elected in 2004. He served on the Sacramento Unified School District Board of Education for several years prior to being elected to the city council. He is considered a potential candidate for Mayor of Sacramento in 2008. Fong is an alumnus of the University of California.
[edit] Lauren Hammond
Lauren Hammond has been a member of the Sacramento City Council since 1997 when she was elected in a special election to replace Deborah Ortiz who had been elected to the California State Assembly. Hammond worked for the California State Senate prior to her election to the State Assembly. She ran for the State Assembly in 2004 after Darrell Steinberg was term limited but lost the primary to both Dave Jones and Sacramento County Supervisor Roger Dickinson. Hammond is an alumnus of Sacramento State University.
[edit] Kevin McCarty
Kevin McCarty has been a member of the Sacramento City Council since 2004 when he was elected to replace Dave Jones who was running for a seat in the California State Assembly. An alumnus of CSU Long Beach, McCarty served as policy director to then Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante prior to being elected to the council.
[edit] Robbie Waters
Robbie Waters, the only Republican on the Sacramento City Council was first elected to the council in 1994. Waters was the Sacramento County Sheriff from 1985 until 1989. During that time, Waters got in a hit and run DUI accident. Waters ran for Mayor in 2000 but lost.
[edit] Bonnie Pannell
Bonnie Pannell replaced her late husband Sam Pannell on the Sacramento City Council in 1998 after his death. She was a community activist in her South Sacramento neighborhood prior to her election to council.
[edit] Past Councilmembers
Past councilmembers in Sacramento include:
- The late congressman Robert Matsui who served 26 years in congress.
- Current State Senator Darrell Steinberg served on the council until his election to the State Assembly in 1998.
- Former State Senator Deborah Ortiz, who was a candidate for Secretary of State in 2006 also served on the city council in the 1990s.
- Current state assemblyman Dave Jones served on the council prior to his election to his assembly seat.
- Mayor Heather Fargo was Ray Tretheway's predecessor on City Council.
- Councilwoman Bonnie Pannell's late husband Sam Pannell was her predecessor on the city council.
