Citrus Heights resident and member of the Sacramento Board of Supervisors for 12 years, Roberta MacGlashan, will be passing on the baton for District Four at the end of 2016.  MacGlashan was elected to the original Citrus Heights City Council in 1996. She served two terms, including two one-year terms as Mayor in 1999 and 2002. Prior to that, she was the last President of the Citrus Heights Incorporation Project (“CHIP”), following Bill Van Duker and Doug Ose in that position.

In 2004, MacGlashan was elected to the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, representing the Fourth District. She was re-elected in 2008 and 2012. Following redistricting in 2011, the Fourth District now includes the cities of Citrus Heights and Folsom, and the unincorporated communities of Antelope, Gold River, Orangevale, Rancho Murieta, Rio Linda and Elverta. MacGlashan has decided to retire from public service at the end of her current term on January 2, 2017.

Highlights of MacGlashan’s public service include the selection of the current Citrus Heights City Manager, Henry Tingle; the current City Attorney, Ruthann Ziegler; and working with the other four original City Councilmembers to establish the foundation for the success of the City of Citrus Heights. While on the Board of Supervisors, MacGlashan has been an advocate for public safety, working to maintain and enhance the services provided by the Sheriff’s Department, the District Attorney’s Office, and the Probation Department. She also led the effort to ban marijuana cultivation in the unincorporated area. Other highlights include the opening of “new” Terminal B at the Airport. She estimates that in the last 12 years she has hosted over 500 community meetings throughout the district.

MacGlashan was born and raised in Southern California, and moved to Citrus Heights in 1990 to pursue her career as a planning consultant in the Sacramento area. She and her husband Craig, a retired attorney, have been married for 43 years. She is looking forward to traveling without a set schedule, overseeing some home improvements, and having more time for figure skating, reading for pleasure and volunteering for the California Capital Airshow. She will miss working with all of the wonderful people she has come to know while serving as the Fourth District Supervisor.