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CONTENTS July | August 2021

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President’s Update

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County Update

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Board President, John Mason of Gurnee Mason Rushford Bonotto & Forestiere LLP

County Supervisor Suzanne Jones shares her first update since taking office.

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New Members and Renewals Celebrate our members who have recently joined or renewed their membership.

Officers President John Mason

Gurnee Mason Rushford Bonotto & Forestiere, LLP

President-Elect Darlene Cullivan Eskaton

Past President Doug Wagemann

Wagemann Holdings, Inc.

PRESIDENT’S UPDATE The Chamber Moves Forward John Mason Gurnee Mason Rushford Bonotto & Forestiere, LLP

Secretary/Treasurer Sheila Cardno Silvers HR, LLC

VP Membership Services Edgar Quilala

Consolidated Communications

VP Economic & Gov’t Affairs Vance Jones Wood Rodgers, Inc.

VP Community Development Geoff Sakala Studio Workspaces

Board of Directors Brian Alexander

Sutter Roseville Medical Center

Alex Brown Captrust

Francisco Castillo

Union Pacific Railroad

Justin Curry

Umpqua Bank

Joe Flores

Flores & Associates Insurance Services

Kate Hensler Nordstrom

Michael Korpiel

Mercy San Juan Medical Center

Michael Laperche PRIDE Industries

Kim Menzel

Kaiser Permanente Roseville

Christopher Onstott Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard

Lisa Peters

Randy Peters Catering & Events Center

Lori Prosio

Prosio Communications

John Tallman

Westpark Communities

Shannon Zajec

Employers Select Insurance Services

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By now most of you have undoubtedly learned that Wendy Gerig, the Roseville Area Chamber of Commerce’s beloved CEO of nearly 28 years, has decided to retire at the end of 2021. It goes without saying that Wendy’s contributions, too enumerable to count, have shaped the Chamber into what it is today, and we all owe Wendy a debt of gratitude for her tireless work to advance the goals of the organization, its members, and the entire South Placer Business community.

Although we are all sad to see Wendy step away from her long-standing leadership role with the Chamber, I and my fellow Board of Directors knew that this day would come eventually and that we had to plan accordingly. As a result, in early 2020 the Board adopted a formal CEO Succession Plan.

This plan provides a detailed blueprint for current and future Board members to follow whenever the Chamber’s CEO needs to be replaced for whatever reason. Immediately

after Wendy announced her retirement, the Succession Plan was activated in order to recruit and hire a highly qualified successor CEO by November 1, 2021. I thought it would be appropriate to use this month’s President’s Message as an opportunity to let you all know about this process.

In May of this year, a CEO Search Committee was formed, which is comprised of several current and former Board members as well as other civil and business leaders in the Roseville area.

The Search Committee’s first task was to solicit proposals from a number of executive search firms from both within and outside of California to assist with the recruitment and hiring process.

After reviewing multiple proposals and interviewing two finalists, the decision was made to retain Leap Solutions Group, Inc., which is based in Santa Rosa, California, to head up the search.

Leap Solutions has a strong track record of successfully recruiting outstanding CEOs for Chambers of Commerce and

other non-profit organizations throughout California, and we are very excited to be working with them on this important endeavor.

In the coming months, the Search Committee will be working intensively with Leap Solutions on completing the recruitment process for the Chamber’s new CEO, and I would like to thank each and every member of the Committee for their considerable time and dedication to this project. I am extremely confident that when our search is completed, we will have found a new CEO that will not only be able to maintain the goals that were accomplished

by Wendy Gerig during her tenure, including our coveted 5-Star accreditation by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, but who will also bring exciting new energy and ideas of his or her own that will further enhance the benefits of membership and solidify the Roseville area’s reputation as the best place in California to live, work and do business.

Roseville Area Chamber of Commerce

COUNTY UPDATE Meet Suzanne Jones Suzanne Jones Placer County Supervisor, District 4

Chamber Staff Chief Executive Officer Wendy Gerig

Director of Operations Beth Heneger

SPLASH! Jamie Hazen

Office Administrator Carole Dittmer

The newest Supervisor shares her history, the ideas that formed the foundation of her passion for public service and her perspective on leadership.

I know I’m not a stranger to many of you, so please forgive me if I repeat myself for the benefit of those who are just getting to know me. I am the third of four siblings, and when I was born my dad was an officer in the Air Force. He had been a night fighter pilot in Europe during WW II flying P-61 Black Widows. After the war, the Air Force moved my dad around quite a bit. Eventually he was stationed at Mather Air Force Base, and my parents bought a home in Citrus Heights. A few years later when it was time to rotate out, my dad decided to retire from the Air Force because he had fallen in love with Northern California and did not want to leave. Citrus Heights was just a rural corner of Sacramento County neighboring Roseville then - there was not much there in those days. And that is where I grew up.

My mom was a stay-at-home mom, though she didn’t always “stay at home”. She moved all around the world with my dad, often with small children in tow. On my father’s assignment to Okinawa my mother boarded a troop ship with my father, in San Francisco for a trans-pacific voyage with three small children.

Two years later, they boarded a ship

for the return voyage, this time with four small children.

My parents sacrificed a lot so they could afford to send my siblings and I to private schools, even though the public schools were quite good in those days. My sister and I graduated from Mercy High School and my two brothers graduated from Jesuit High School.

To this day all four of us look back on the education we received and feel that it was the most important thing our parents did for us.

So that brings me to the day after my 18th birthday. That’s the day I registered to vote, and I did so out of a sense of civic duty and responsibility. Duty and responsibility were things that I had learned about all through my upbringing, not just through words, but by watching them in action.

There were things that I witnessed throughout my whole life, but that I would not fully come to understand until I was older. Things such as my father enlisting in the Army Air Corps a few days after Pearl Harbor and spending over 20 years serving his country. Things I learned watching my mother follow him around the world raising a family and often transporting several small children to various far-flung outposts. Why did these people who were so important to me do these things that seemed on the surface to be

counter to their own self-interest?

They did those things because they were serving something larger than themselves. And I was taught an ethic that said if there’s work to be done get in there and do it. Do not wait for someone else to step up.

Do not hold back because the task is difficult, that the most worthwhile and important tasks are the hardest.

And perhaps most important of all, do the right thing regardless of what’s in it for you.

My life has been one of participation and support for this part of northern California I call home. Even when I was half a world away my family and my roots were always here, and they always will be. I will always be an active participant in the preservation and improvement of my family, my community, my state – my home.

I am not just an elected official.

I am not just an attorney. I am not just a businessperson. I am not just a mediator. I am all those things, and I will use the multi-dimensional skill and experience that is necessary to build collaborative relationships, form coalitions and be a successful and effective representative.

Finally – and most importantly - I have the passion of my convictions.

And I will do the right thing – regardless of what’s in it for me.

Membership Retention Representative Scott Otsuka

Business Development & Advertising Representative Monica Goodpaster

Business Development Representative CJ Duxbury

Roseville Area Chamber of Commerce 650 Douglas Blvd.

Roseville, CA 95678 (916) 783-8136

A publication of the Roseville Area Chamber of Commerce, the Insight newsletter is produced bi-monthly.

Roseville Area Chamber of Commerce, is proud to be an accredited five-star Chamber of Commerce.

The Accreditation Program was instituted by the U.S. Chamber to recognize effective organization performance. Only 10% of the Chambers throughout the nation successfully complete the accreditation process for this voluntary program and less than 1% achieve five-star status.

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Snowie King Naturals Shave Ice Staples Sutter Sierra Surgery Center TSI Semiconductors

Christina Dyer International Citadel Management Company Clark Auto Body Cochrane & Wagemann Destiny Christian Church FIBRENEW Folsom/Mobile Service Fraternal Order of the Eagles #1582 - Roseville Green Valley Hospice Interwest Consulting Group J&S Asphalt

Jay Resendez Attorney at Law Lucy’s Salon & Spa NewVision Realty Group Roxanne & Patricia NorCal Town & Country RealtyDavid Dorer Northwestern Mutual Oilstop Old Town Pizza One Light Ahead Revolutions Naturopathic

Rosati’s Sports Pub Roseville Strength and Conditioning Sierra Pregnancy & Health Stanford Sierra Youth & Families SUPERCUTS #81856 Swihart Electrical Group The Fig Tree Coffee, Art & Music Lounge The Monk’s Cellar Tim Lewis Communities Upstream Administration Zafia’s Family House

Coldwell Banker Sun RidgeNick Brooks Gary Yeatts - Clarity Technologies John Adams Academy-Roseville La Provence Restaurant & Terrace Maidu Village Senior Apts. III Mike Martin Photography Minuteman Press Roseville Morris Enterprises Mourier Land Investment

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Coker-Ewing Dry Creek Jt. Elementary School District Placer County Water Agency

Corporation National University Peet’s Coffee & Tea - Quarry Ponds Peet’s Coffee & Tea - The Fountains Primerica Financial - Joann Caetano Randy Peters Catering & Event Center Roseville Crime Stoppers Rubino’s Ristorante South Placer Rotary Club

Gurnee Mason Rushford Bonotto & Forestiere LLP Landmark Builders P.F. Chang’s China Bistro Pinnacle at Galleria Placer SPCA

Springhill Suites by Marriott Unger Construction Co. Vision Quest Information Solutions, Inc. Whole Foods Market William Jessup University

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Project GO, Inc. Roller King Skating Center Roseville Jt. Union High School Dist.

NEW MEMBERS - APRIL - MAY Allevity Employer Solutions Amethyst Grove Assisted Living Bharat Spice Bazar Child Advocates of Placer County Digital Market Hero Evergreen Home Loans Geico Local Office - Brandon J. Harris Insurance Agency

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