Biography

By Linda Budge

Linda Budge has over three decades of experience in service to Rancho Cordova.

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, 25years later, 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.

As a member of the Board of Directors of the Rancho Cordova Chamber of Commerce, she chaired the Cordova Commercial Revitalization Project (CCRP). She is a past Chamber President and Volunteer of the Year. 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. The American Planning Association local chapter awarded her their 2008 Distinguished Leadership Award which recognizes outstanding local elected officials.

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 elected in 2002 to a seat on the first City Council when the City of Rancho Cordova incorporated, and was easily re-elected in November of 2006. She continues to provide leadership in the City's priority areas of sustainable land use planning, customer service, remodeling the physical appearance of the City, expanding the economic opportunities that exist in the community, and providing housing for the thousands of people who work in Rancho Cordova's office districts.