Candidate for
Council Member; City of Rancho Cordova

In 2004, Linda Budge served the new City of Rancho Cordova as its first woman Mayor. She has resided in the Sacramento area for 35 years and been involved in almost all aspects of community life in the Rancho Cordova area. She and her husband share five children and thirteen grandchildren.

She is well known as an active community participant, beginning with volunteer work and a television program at KVIE in the early 70's.

She has held elective and appointed office since 1978, including three terms on the Cordova Recreation and Park District Board; five years on CORPAC, where she chaired for three of those years; and, for over 18 years, chaired the Sacramento County Subdivision Review Committee, which hears all the parcel maps and subdivision maps in the County. During her years on CORPAC, she lead the advisory council through the preparation of the first Community Plan for Rancho Cordova and subsequently served as the chair of the Steering Committee for the Rancho Cordova Community Plan Update, pulling together various committees, citizens groups, and local organizations to design a vision to guide community development for the next decade. That experience served the new City well during the two year long process of adopting its first General Plan. It was formally adopted in June, 2006.

As a member of the Board of Directors of the Rancho Cordova Chamber of Commerce, she chaired the Cordova Commercial Revitalization Project (CCRP). She was Chamber President in 1998 and selected to be the Volunteer of the Year in 1999. She has also been President of Cordova Community Council, saved the historic Mills Station building for its new life as a community center at the Mather Field Mills Station, and served two years as an appointee to the Sacramento County Fire Protection District Board.

Professionally, Ms. Budge is the owner of Geometra Planning & Permitting, a full service planning and permit processing firm. As a consulting planner, she handles rezones and use permits, and has processed commercial building permits all over the United States.

She was the only woman elected on November 5th, 2002, to a seat on the first City Council for the newly incorporated City of Rancho Cordova. As a Member of the City Council, she continues to provide leadership in the areas of customer service, remodeling the City's residential and commercial base, expanding the economic opportunities that exist in the community, and providing housing for the thousands of people who work in Rancho Cordova's office parks.